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From a time long ago, the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 (formerly CVA-67) is the only ship of her class (a variant of the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carriers) and the last conventionally powered carrier built for the United States Navy to take the seas. She is nicknamed "Big John".
After nearly 40 years of service in the United States Navy, Kennedy was officially decommissioned on 1 August 2007. She is berthed at the NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility in Philadelphia and, until late 2017, was available for donation as a museum and memorial to a qualified organization. In late 2017, the Navy revoked her "donation hold" status and designated her for dismantling.
She took the seas to support during the Yom Kippur War, was also deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Beirut, Lebanon after 24 marines were killed by bombing in their sleep. Additionally, she took the seas in Operation Desert Storm, as well as to support actions in the Mediterranean Sea off of the coast of Yugoslavia. Afterward she returned to Philadelphia where she sits in the Navy Yard at the mouth of the Delaware River. Old soldiers don’t die. They just fade away.
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is starting sailing in a new dreamy week...passengers, are you ready to go? ;-)
Sunny and peacful way to you all, my dear friends! :-)
In the Thunderbirds last movie, Thunderbird 6, Brains designs a new ship for the future...and airship. After being laughted out of the board room, they still decide to build it. However it becomes the victim of terrorists and it is up to International Rescue to save the passengers.
A case of molecular madness underfoot XD
Everything apart from that yellow barbell thing is firmly attached to the base.
Hanging out with Rapa, Barbs, Indra, Min, and other friends at SL21B listening to DJ Sin.
Visit this location at SL21B ~ The Nimbus ~ General Stage in Second Life
As the planes approach, one can get pretty close impressions from this (easily accessible) vantage point. Then they cross the road, almost at your level, and you can get a full side view, fairly large (see next shot).
A previous UK attempt at building airships at Cardington that failed however it was taken over by Westinghouse after the collapse of Airship Industries and more have been built in the US.
Registered as G-SKSC on 10Aug83. Cancelled on 03Dec93 as transferred to the MOD.
The red line at lower left represents the passage of a cohort of sky traversing humans on a jet bound for somewhere on this spinning globe ... I wonder if they peeked from their skyship's portholes to see the lights raging above them ...
A very rare combination of Airship Industries Skyship 500-02 G-BIHN passing over the tail of UTA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 F-BTDD at Paris CDG (Roissy) 😎
A pleasing telephoto shot at Paris CDG showing a somewhat unusual sight :)
UTA operated a fleet of six DC-10s in the 1970s and 80s, three of which retained their American registrations (N54629, N54639 and N54649) as they were lease-purchased. The others were F-BTDB, F-BTDC & seen here F-BTDD.
F-BTDD c/n 46963 was one of three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s bought outright by UTA (Union De Transport Aerien) between 1973 and 1977. The other two were registered F-BTDB & F-BTDC. The aircraft transferred to Air France in 1992 when the airlines merged.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
An anti-gravity skyship of 11th Sqn.
Looking for an idea for a build the illustrations of Adult_boy really struck a cord. One image in particular was the inspiration for SS11. Follow the link-
www.flickr.com/photos/lemon_boy/14392119341/in/faves-kits...
Building the ship reminded me of early WW1 TBD's and the B24 Liberator with a bit of wind-up tin toy thrown in. It has much straighter lines than in the drawing which I hope still does the design justice. (Sky scene edit to follow!)
Thanks for looking! Thanks AB!
For the real enthusiasts who distinguish not only (exotic) airlines, but plane models and modifications, even identities etc... Lamp posts and other objects occasionally get in the way as you pan with the giant ship, but shooting in burst mode gives you a clear frame here and there - or one requiring minimal cropping (as I did here to remove a pole on the right).
G-BIHN : Airship Industries Skyship 500
With promotional British Caledonian markings.
Given how few photos with these BCal titles have been uploaded here, I suspect these markings were short-lived.
Airship Industries Skyship 600 G-SKSC and Skyship 500 G-BIHN at Farnborough on 8th September 1984.
Photo by John W. Read.
(This was supposed to be a derringer and then I got carried away)
Captain Richard Almsfield stood upon his ship's deck, in a confident commanding stance, making a deliberate effort to be seen casually overseeing his crew's efforts to disembark. Internally, he felt awkward and uncomfortable, and was considering leaving when he finally saw his mark: The rest of the expedition.
The non-crew members of the expedition slowly and nervously approached the skyship's boarding ramp. They needed someone to give them confidence that this insane endeavor would not lead to their deaths. Almsfield himself had only been through the rifts three times, and only once as a captain. All of his crew had been through that many times or less. Inter-dimensional travel was still very new, very unknown, hence this exploratory expedition.
Almsfield would provide a strong face, even though he was just as clueless to what they may face. He did have one other thing, beyond his own courage, to offer to his passengers.
As the expedition's members gathered awkwardly upon the ship's deck, Captain Almsfield gestured to a nearby crate, which his first mate opened and tilted for all to see. A neat row of handles could be seen, sticking out of the cloth padding keeping each of the devices secure. They looked like massive, clumsy pistols, or some sort of over-engineered flare.
"We do not know all that we may face. We do not know how many different planes of existence we will journey through and across. We cannot have a specialized weapon for everything, we must make do with the most effective, general purpose arms we have. Yet we do have one thing that Artificer Oswick has created for us. He calls them 'Destabilizing Lanterns' and I expect you all to familiarize yourselves with their use. They have only one shot per lantern, so we cannot afford to have you waste them. But they may save your life, and we will make sure there is always one nearby, on or off the ship. The ship's quartermaster will instruct you further, but the gist of the weapon is this: It will deliver a single, concentrated, high powerful beam of every sort of energy currently known. Arcane, natural, and divine energies. The thought is simple, when faced with a dangerous threat beyond what normal arms can dispatch, point a lantern and unleash every energy possible and hope the target is vulnerable to one. It may not destroy, but it should be enough to buy your escape. Please, do not use them idly, it goes without saying that such a weapon is ridiculously dangerous if misfired, but such is the nature of our exploration."
The thrilling Himmelskibet (The Sky Ship), the world's tallest carousel, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (Denmark).
Tivoli Gardens (or simply Tivoli) is an internationally known amusement park and pleasure garden, located in the center of Copenhagen near the main train station. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the second oldest amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg.
The park is best known for its roller coasters, the Himmelskibet (in the picture) and severals other funny, thrilling and amazing rides.
Besides the rides, Tivoli Gardens also serve as a venue for various performing arts and as a active part of the cultural scene in Copenhagen with a pantomime theatre, a concert hall and the Tivoli Boys Guard, that makes concerts and parades.
With more than 4.5 million annual visitors, Tivoli is the most visited theme park in Scandinavia and the third most visited in Europe.