View allAll Photos Tagged zero
Left shot taken with Canon SLR. Right shot take with Zero Image Pinhole.
By Ryan Gwillim & Chris Brow.
Sgt. Erik Herron, assigned to 66th Military Intelligence Brigade, zeroes M4 carbine during U.S. Army Europe's Best Warrior Competition in Grafenwoehr, Germany Aug. 20. The competition is a weeklong event that tests Soldiers’ physical stamina, leadership, technical knowledge and skill. Winners in the Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer categories of the USAREUR competition will go on to compete at the Department of the Army level. (U.S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach)
Catalog #: 01_00085578
Title: Mitsubishi, A6M, Zero
Corporation Name: Mitsubishi
Official Nickname: Zero
Additional Information: Japan
Designation: A6M
Tags: Mitsubishi, A6M, Zero
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Fuel Cell
Toyota Collection
Collection Peter Pichert - Passau
Toyota Deutschland GmbH
Toyota-Allee 2
50858 Köln
Deutschland - Germany
June 2018
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was a lightweight fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) from 1940 until the final days of the war in 1945. It was by far the most famous and widely used aircraft in Japanese military aviation history. The origin of its official designation was “A” signifying a fighter and “6” signifying the sixth model built by Mitsubishi “M.”
It is universally known as the “Zero” from its Japanese Navy designation, Type “0” Carrier Fighter, taken from the last digit of the Imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service. In Japan, it was unofficially referred to as both “Rei-sen” and “Zero-sen;” Japanese pilots most commonly called their planes “Zero-sen.” The official Allied code name for the type was “Zeke” in keeping with the practice of giving boys’ names to Japanese fighters, girls’ names to bombers, bird names to gliders, and tree names to trainers.
It was a modern monoplane for the time, capable of speeds over 300mph, yet its low landing speed also made it suitable for carrier operations. Everything about its design and construction emphasized lightness, simplicity, and utility. The first Zero was flown in April 1939 and went into regular service with the Japanese Navy in July 1940. A total of 10,450 examples were produced from 1939 to 1945, more than any other type of Japanese military aircraft. The Zero played a crucial role in nearly every Japanese naval operation of the war, from Pearl Harbor all the way through to the Japanese surrender in August of 1945. Even though it was considered obsolete after 1943, the aircraft continued in production until the last days of the war.
Since most of Japan’s carrier fleet had been sunk by 1944, the Japanese Navy ordered new Zero models designed with more reliable bomb racks to fulfill the mission of dive bombing and to operate from smaller carriers. The Model 63 with a special bomb rack, reinforced tailplane, and 350-liter wing drop tanks was put into production in May 1945. However, with no aircraft carriers available at this time, most of the surviving Zeros were converted into Kamikaze or suicide attack planes. In the last months of the war, the A6M7 was the final line of defense of the home islands, assuming the additional role of night fighter.
This Zero, built sometime in 1945, was transported from the Yokohama Naval Air Station in Japan at the end of hostilities aboard the carrier USS Wasp (CV-18), and stored at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Willow Grove, PA. In 1962, it was acquired by the National Air and Space Museum, and then in turn, sent to the Bradley Air Museum in Connecticut for restoration, but storm damage to the museum prevented this from happening. The aircraft was then loaned to the San Diego Air and Space Museum, where it arrived dismantled and in boxes in March of 1981. Museum volunteers spent over 12,000 hours restoring the plane, which has been on display in the WWII gallery since April of 1984. It is currently on permanent loan from the National Air and Space Museum. Prior to my visit, I had little to no idea that this model of the Zero even existed!
This is Zero. He was abandoned by his previous family and left to wander the neighborhood begging for food. Friends took him in, but they couldn't keep him, so he came to us. He doesn't like little boys, and he's allergic to bee stings. He likes to sleep under the blankets, gets anxious if someone leaves the house, and he enjoys sitting with a tennis ball under his front feet, gripped tightly in his paws.
Zero is what his first family thought of him, but he is no Zero.
If you enjoy the content, please consider supporting my work by using the link below so I can book more photoshoots.
I am overnighting in New York City on this day - my first return to New York City in the 21st Century, after having called it home until 1998.
As soon as I entered Manhattan, I knew I had to come here, to Ground Zero. I still had fresh memories of visiting the World Trade Center complex during the 1990s, so its destruction was still difficult to believe. Its underground shopping mall was one of my favorite hangouts, the rooftop observatory of the South Tower was my favorite vantage point for city views, and the North Tower lobby had airline ticketing offices where I priced tickets to Los Angeles on United Airlines, often ending up on the very aircraft that ended up slamming into the South Tower on September 11th, 2001.
In August 2004, Ground Zero was a busy construction site, being prepared for the erection of the Freedom Tower replacing the Twin Towers.
I would return here in October 2011, to find the 9/11 Memorial occupying the footprint of the Twin Towers, and several new replacement skyscrapers going up around it.
I am definitely enjoying shooting macro with my D7100. The 51 pt af is really helping me get decent hand held results.
Dreadlocks da zero. Basi quadrate divise perfettamente. Ricordiamo che l'effetto "scacchiera" è visibile in modo un po accentuato solo nei primissimi giorni, in cui i nodi sono saldissimi. Gia dai giorni seguenti il tutto si attutisce e l'effetto inizia ad essere più naturale.
inoltre ricordiamo che è anche il flash a dare l'effetto "cute bianchissima", nella realtà le divisioni sono visibili ma non cosi tanto!
'District Zero' tells the story of Maamun Al-Wadi, a Syrian refugee who begins a new life in Jordan’s Zaatari camp fixing mobile phones. He is one of nearly 60 million refugees and displaced person worldwide.
People from all over the camp come to his shop and through each customer they see the contents of their memory cards: their past lives in Syria (happiness, daily routine and family life) as well as the war, destruction, fear and flight.
The documentary has been presented at film festivals since September 2015.
© Pablo Tosco / Oxfam Intermón
Team ZEROs Eivind Hodne Steen takes a break from driving Think and is testing the electric scooters at Vålerbanen during Zero Rally 2011. Foto: Eirik Helland Urke
A young boy rowing a boat at Jaflong near the border of India.
A one day trip to Sylhet was fruitful. Felt good to finally get out of Dhaka and Chittagong. The road to Jaflong is amazing I must say and the tea gardens are worth a visit. More pictures coming up! =]
Zero Point, Jaflong, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
A boat beached amongst the rocks of Collioure (I am guessing this is some kind of art installation).
Zero Image 6x9 MF loaded with Fuji Reala 100. Exposure time 4 seconds.
16-Jan-2025 15:35
Rollei IR400 @ EI 400 (EI 6 using IR72 filter)
Berggar PMK 2+4+100 : 8 mins @ 21C
Pre-Wash : 5 Minutes
Inversions first 30 sec then 1 inversion every 15 sec
Two water Stop Baths - 1 min each
Zero Image Eco Alkali Fixer
Clearing time 2 min. Total fix time 4 mins
Initial wash to remove fixer : 1 min
Washing : 20 mins with frequent water changes
Ilfotol : 1 ml in 800ml for 2 minutes
Bronica SQAi + 40mm
Filters : IR72
Highlight = 16
Shadow = 11
Midpoint = 13
Filters : Heliopan IR72
Final LV=13
1/4 sec @ f11