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Rail Operations Group Class 57/3 No. 310 'Pride of Cumbria' drags former GTR 'Great Northern/Fenline' Class 365 EMU's No.s 530 & 538 along a once regular route under the catenary in Ely, for one last time on 11.8.2021. The consist approaches Kiln Lane AHB running as 5Q23 0922 Ely Papworth Sdgs to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard for further storage & an uncertain future !
May 15, 2020
Canadian Forces Snowbirds fly over Edmonton on their cross country tour to salute front line healthcare workers and all Canadians doing their part to fight the spread of Covid-19 - dubbed OPERATION INSPIRATION. Heather and I saw the CT-114 Tutors fly almost directly over our house at 14:37 in the Snowbird signature formation called BIG DIAMOND. Two days later, on May 17th, Snowbird 11 crashed shortly after takeoff in Kamloops, BC. We mourn the death of Captain Jenn Casey and hope for the speedy recovery of Captain Richard MacDougall.
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A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
After recovering the VX gas, the team was extracted by two HH-60 helicopters
Final part of Operation Alcatraz.
Poznan, Poland
Working in an operating room during an actual operation.
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"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world."- Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
80 years ago today, the largest land, air, and sea invasion in the history of the world took place. After years of careful planning and deception, the Allied powers began the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1944, American and British paratroopers descended from their planes into the towns of Normandy to secure strategic towns and bridges, while the Allied navy was transporting the ground forces across the English Channel. The Americans would land at Omaha and Utah beaches, while the British and Canadians would land at Gold, Sword, and Juno beaches. They were also accompanied by free French, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Czech and others from occupied nations. A total of 156,000 of allied troops would take part in the invasion.
Upon landing, the Allies would encounter fierce German resistance, and the defenses of the Atlantic Wall. Despite suffering heavy casualties, the landings were successful. The Germans did not expect landings at such a scale to take place in Normandy, and instead prepared for landings at Calais. Within months, much of France would be liberated, with few remaining German holdouts. By the end of the invasion, a total of 1.4 million allied troops would be in France, with more on the way. The success of the invasion would pave the way for the eventual end of the war against Nazi Germany.
Officer Michelle "Cupcake" Brown and her buddy Officer Joe "Coffee" hand out toys to kids in Lego City.
Officer Brown is a LAPD minifigure from Brick Police. You can find them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrickPolice and their website: www.brickpolice.com
Officer Joe "Coffee" is from the 2013 Lego City Advent Calendar. He arrived with a coffee cup, that's how he got his nickname :-)
Union Pacific Railroad Operation Lifesaver caboose at North Little Rock, Arkansas on July 31, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was known as EAST ONE when it was on the Missouri Pacific. Yeah, I know, I could have framed this shot better. I was not an invited guest, so I grabbed the shot from my car and moved on.
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
Operation Toy Train is parked on the Washington Secondary at Hackettstown NJ. As part of the Toys for Tots program, unwrapped gifts are being collected. The train made several stops in route to Phillipsburg NJ
Shhhh
I'm performing surgery
Close your mouth, close your eyes
He has a ticking part
That may pop out
And cause someone surprise
Don't worry
There won't be much blood
It will be quick, he'll never know
That his ticking part
His missing part
Is something that has to go
Intelligence obtained from Operation Blue Moon indicated that an exchange of radioactive material will be taking place in the Middle East in an area within the Russian sphere of influence. Additionally, intelligence suggested that the Russian arms dealer, codename Panther, will be personally at the exchange.
To capture the radioactive material and the High Value Individual Panther, a Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. As soon as the task force arrived at the forward operating base Camp Oasis, they immediately made preparations for the upcoming operation.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
G-CEJP : Boeing 737-8BK : flyGlobespan
In ex-Oman Air livey after return from lease.
After Globespan ceased operations, this aircraft flew with Ethiopian, and later became N818SY with Sun Country.
[Helicopter news footage from the CLB invasion of France]
["We managed to get this footage... looks like a civilian sports car was destroyed, no driver visible; two dead NATO soldiers, however-- one being dragged into an alley, the other in front of the car and... and a third soldier, ankles and arms broken, on his knees with a gun to the back of his head, dear god, this is terrible!"]
-News clip, translated from french
Borders are just lines on paper. Viva la Uprising!
SALO rumbles through the station at West Medford behind MEC 316, B&M 334, MEC 506, and MEC 348. Time is running short for the dirt train, with operations set to end by March 1st.
After receiving intelligence that there were heavy insurgent activities in the Naran Darre Mountains. Allied nations including Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Victoria immediately sent additional Tier One assets to the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force (CATF) to respond to the threat.
General Miller deployed a hand-picked team consisting of 20 tier-1 operators. Commander Whitmore was given the tactical command to coordinate air assets, QRF, and launch operations.
Over several months, the team launched multiple raids and captured several High-Value Individuals (HVIs). These HVIs would in turn provide the TF with additional intelligence. As a result, the number of fighters moving south began to dwindle. So far, the operation has been successful.
The End. The story continues in Operation Avalanche.
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
P.S. I hope you have enjoyed this story. Taking a small break and will be back with Operation Avalanche.
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
On Sunday 24th October 2021, a large rail replacement operation took place in the Basingstoke area affecting the services of SWR, GWR and Cross Country. This resulted in a nice variety of vehicles turning up throughout the day - in fact 37 different operators were noted supplying 53 different vehicles!
Replacement bus services ran out to Andover, Reading, Winchester and Woking.
And BAM! Three days before Brickcon. Excuse the indecent photo; I've been butchering my time into education, building, packing, writing, and food. Moving left to right, we have a mutated survivor, a typical farmer who had the time to make it into the city before everything went awry, a stay-at-home dad, hazardous environment officer, and the Medici brothers. Onto vehicles, we have a billboard (which will have an image on it, just wait a few days,) a small buggy, which is a personal favorite toy among my collection, and an anti-aircraft cannon. Why a cannon? Well why not?
See you guys there!
Colonel Robert Olds' F-4C following a North Vietnamese MiG-21 Fishbed during Operation Bolo. This month is the 50th anniversary of that famous air battle.
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Still testing out Blender, so I thought I'd pit my F-4C against its nemesis; the MiG-21. Awe was kind enough to donate his stellar MiG-21, 'cuz he's a boss.
Rail Operations Group New Stadler Trimode Class 93 No 93001 on its first loaded test run at Kiveton Park Station Signal Box (Great Central Railway Type 5a 1916) with the slightly delayed 5Q25 0858 Worksop Down Yard to Sheffield working on 30th May 2024
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Once this was the biggest airfield in Eastern Germany with thousands of Soviet soldiers living here - but when the Iron Curtain was lifted, they left. For 30 years now, this has been a ghost town. This time, we set out to explore a Soviet wasteland! Learn the full story in this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/t-pYZenXMyk
Hard to tell here, but the light is extremely low in this very cool old stone recreation center, so hard to get descent photos for me.
Annual Operation Wildlife Eagle Days at Wyandotte County Park. Wonderful organization that takes in injured and abandoned wildlife and nurses them back to health then releases back into the wild. Some that can't be released participate as educational ambassadors for their species.
Our collaboration (created by Deltaforceguy) at Brickfair VA 2012.
Based off Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
Aug 2oth 1968. The rumble of Russian tanks broke the silence of the streets of Prague Czechoslovakia. 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2000 tanks entered the Country.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The tasks were assigned to the TF through drawing straws. The assault team consisted of Team 8, the Squadron Master Chief (Callsign Orca-minor), and two machine gunners from Team 7. The extraction team consisted of Team 55 with Squadron Commander (Callsign Orca-actual), and a fire support section from the Special Operations Regiment. The extraction team are mounted in two GMV, one LAV-FSV, one LAV-ICV, and one HMWV Cargo. The remaining operators from Team 7 in two HH-60 Pave Hawks would be the QRF and positioned at FOB Spade. Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
As the assault team patrol to the exchange site after being inserted into the AO by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion, the extraction team departed the staging base and arrived at a rendezvous point.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The OBL (Osama Bin Ladin) raid has been accurately recreated in lego for the one and only Brick Fair Virginia 2013. This collaborative MOC has been registered as an official collaboration and will be on display in a specific place at the convention for attendees and the public to veiw.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
Since the exchange would take place in an area within the Russian sphere of influence, no ISR or air asset would be available. The plan was to insert reconnaissance teams before the exchange to perform advanced force operations (AFO) and to provide overwatch during the exchange. An assault team would then enter the area of operations (AO) by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion and setup an ambush at the exchange.
A ground extraction team will infiltrate the AO by vehicles (including HMMWVs and Grizzly LAVs) under the guise of a routine patrol to extract the assault team once the radioactive material and the HVI have been secured.
The remaining of the task force would be the quick reaction force (QRF) loaded in helicopters waiting at a forward operating base (FOB) and called upon if needed.
3 AFO teams (callsigns Sparrowhawk 2,3 &12) in UTVs were inserted into the AO by Chinook helicopters and setup observation posts (OPs) to conduct reconnaissance and to provide overwatch.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A door gunner with the Tactical Aviation Detachment watches out of a CH-146 Griffon helicopter during Operation IMPACT on September 27, 2017.
Photo: Op IMPACT, DND
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Un mitrailleur de porte du détachement d’aviation tactique à bord d’un hélicoptère CH-146 Griffon assure la surveillance au cours de l’opération IMPACT, le 27 septembre 2017.
Photo : Op IMPACT, MDN
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