Cool pics

[Oberon]

I sometimes find nice pics and pics that don't fall under the 'Funny' category, and there's nowhere to post them. So, here's a thread for all those nice looking, cool pics that you find on the internet.

Starting off with an unusual perspective to a common picture:

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/7471/72340177646865717320132.jpg
View from a Tu-95 of two Eurofighters on intercept duty.

[Jimbuna]

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/2008/07/07/large.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=vulcan+and+lancaster&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=sVJTCQ9k_1sTZM&tbnid=thrbRLcorzx0SM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flightglobal.com%2Fblogs%2Fai rcraft-pictures%2F2008%2F07%2Fvintage-avro.html&ei=KatIUcfQBaGg0QWjsYGoAw&bvm=bv.43828540,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNGMZDabk4J66_TRE2ka4id5fliGIQ&ust=1363803291285150)
Vintage Avro...Lancaster and Vulcan

[bertieck476]

The vulcans were real beasts and slightly topical I thinks with the other posts ala falklands

[swamprat69er]

The Lanc looks good. I may be old fashioned but the Lanc looks better than the Vulcan.

[TLAM Strike]

North Korean M-1978 Koksan guns in action. These are the only DPRK guns that can hit Seoul from the DMZ.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8466/26994955282fe80772d89e.jpg

[Betonov]

Ljubljana, from the top of the ''skyscraper''

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1874_10151351121157689_505970669_n.jpg

[HunterICX]

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7205/horn9.jpg

F/A 18 Hornet :cool:

HunterICX

[Dowly]

Storm on Saturn
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/SaturnStorm1.jpg

That faded bit in front and to the side of the storm is... the storm's tail. :doh:

[Jimbuna]

The vulcans were real beasts and slightly topical I thinks with the other posts ala falklands

Only one Vulcan still flying and this will be her last year :-?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Only one Vulcan still flying and this will be her last year :-?

Not necessarily, fingers are still crossed the main spars can be replaced adequately.

Donations of any size always needed to get her in the air for the forthcoming season - http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ :yeah:

Below is one of the coolest, and luckiest shots ever -

http://www.rafjever.org/pictures-118/118sqnpic205.jpg
©Jim Meads

[Mork_417]

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/2008/07/07/large.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=vulcan+and+lancaster&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=sVJTCQ9k_1sTZM&tbnid=thrbRLcorzx0SM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flightglobal.com%2Fblogs%2Fai rcraft-pictures%2F2008%2F07%2Fvintage-avro.html&ei=KatIUcfQBaGg0QWjsYGoAw&bvm=bv.43828540,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNGMZDabk4J66_TRE2ka4id5fliGIQ&ust=1363803291285150)
Vintage Avro...Lancaster and Vulcan

LOVE that Lancaster! :yeah:

Storm on Saturn
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/SaturnStorm1.jpg

That faded bit in front and to the side of the storm is... the storm's tail. :doh:

When was that pic taken? I need to check that out.

[Jimbuna]

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8450/dbbucc41024ld5.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=buccanneer+bomber&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=-FevA_jktHAawM&tbnid=HUO4PfrH43u9wM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.militaryphotos.net%2Fforums%2 Fshowthread.php%3F93152-Interception-Pics-from-the-cold-war&ei=HrRJUZGZJcu10QWW0oCABQ&bvm=bv.44011176,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNGFjimp_r8sblWUE3zvYwRAE6ypPQ&ust=1363871033640499)
Britains last nuclear capable bomber....Buccaneer.

[AVGWarhawk]

http://www.efluids.com/efluids/gallery/gallery_images/breaking_sound.jpg

[Dowly]

When was that pic taken? I need to check that out.

It was first spotted late 2010 and lasted for months.

Phil Plait wrote about it some weeks back:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/01/saturn_storm_cassini_spacecraft_pictures_of_monste r_storm_dying_out.html

@AVG: Can't see any picture.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Britains last nuclear capable bomber....Buccaneer.

That's a high flight for a Bucc.

http://nrichards38.free.fr/IMAGES/buccaneer1.jpg

[Jimbuna]

I pondered whether to post that but decided to wait because I had a feeling Jamie or you would :)

[Herr-Berbunch]

We aim to please. :D

[fireftr18]

Not necessarily, fingers are still crossed the main spars can be replaced adequately.

Donations of any size always needed to get her in the air for the forthcoming season - http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ :yeah:

Below is one of the coolest, and luckiest shots ever -

http://www.rafjever.org/pictures-118/118sqnpic205.jpg

You can land a plane like that. Comes to a stop real quick. It is little hard on the airplane and people.

[AVGWarhawk]

You can land a plane like that. Comes to a stop real quick. It is little hard on the airplane and people.

Also the mechanic that has to put it back together. Not to mention the doctors that need to put the pilot back together. Reminds me of a story involving a egg on a wall....:hmmm:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Also the mechanic that has to put it back together. Not to mention the doctors that need to put the pilot back together. Reminds me of a story involving a egg on a wall....:hmmm:

The pilot went through the roof of the commercial greenhouse in the background and suffered two broken lower legs and a broken thigh, and obvious cuts and bruises. The accident was in 1962, he was flying again within six months and back on Lightning test duties within a year. He retired in 1983, and gave up professional flying (exec and airline) when he reached 65 in 1993. Still holds a NPPL (basic licence but more restrictions due to age).

I've just looked at the crash location on Google Maps, the airfield is no more, but the greenhouses are still in the same location, albeit with new glass. :D

[TLAM Strike]

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8322/101203212267a671aba0f03.jpg

[Oberon]

I got these from the airshow forum at:
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47712

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee416/sfw29/SPFL/Axalp%202012/AX124845.jpg

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee416/sfw29/SPFL/Axalp%202012/AX124844.jpg

Yes, those are the shockwaves from the rounds! Truly incredible pictures. :yep:

[Penguin]

Wow! The photographer really had a lucky moment catching those shockwaves! :yep:

[eddie]

You can see the rear gunner standing up in this pic of a Japanese aircraft. The Allied pilot who took the pic, said the gunner stood up like he was going to bail out, but then he decided to just sit down again, and went in with the plane as it hit the water.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/Lastmoments_zps259757c7.jpg

[Takeda Shingen]

Wow! The photographer really had a lucky moment catching those shockwaves! :yep:


And a very good lens.

[August]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/US_paratroopers_jump_into_Australia.jpg

[Schroeder]

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8322/101203212267a671aba0f03.jpg
That doesn't look good.:dead:

[Takeda Shingen]

That doesn't look good.:dead:

No it doesn't. It looks like me pulling into the parking lot some days.

[eddie]

An RAF F4 going full AB between Hangers!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/RAFF4_zpsa9d324c0.jpg

At an air show in 1993, this Buc flew the entire length of the runway at 5 feet!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/Buc_zps88ee1c98.jpg

A Tornado standing on its wing!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/Thony/Tornado_zpse3e252a9.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

At an air show in 1993, this Bucc flew the entire length of the runway at 5 feet!


I don't think it did, the pilots were good, and the aircraft had a great ground effect going on, but the trick with the Bucc was a little microswitch on the undercarriage - once there was the slightest unloading on it the gear came up, the ground effect came into play and it'd just sit there. But it needed some runway before it'd happen, either that or the pilot's balls are so huge they stop it touching the deck.

What I'd like to know is how many trainee Bucc pilots came unstuck with the gear auto-raising. :o

[eddie]

This is the caption that was with the pic of the Bucc-

"From Colin Smedley comes this magnificent image that seems to show 55,000 pounds+ of Blackburn Buccaneer hovering over the runway. In the 1980s and 90s, No 208 Sqn RAF were the real experts in ultra low-level under the radar nuclear strikes. During the International Air Tattoo in 1993, to mark the squadron's 75th birthday, this Buccaneer S.2B was flown at an altitude of just 5 feet for the entire length of RAF Fairford's runway. From inside the massive strike aircraft, it must surely have felt as though they were actually in the ground. Thank God for ground effect. Photo Colin Smedley"

But I'm no expert on this aircraft, so I defer to those who know more about it then I do.:)

[Jimbuna]

This is the caption that was with the pic of the Bucc-

"From Colin Smedley comes this magnificent image that seems to show 55,000 pounds+ of Blackburn Buccaneer hovering over the runway. In the 1980s and 90s, No 208 Sqn RAF were the real experts in ultra low-level under the radar nuclear strikes. During the International Air Tattoo in 1993, to mark the squadron's 75th birthday, this Buccaneer S.2B was flown at an altitude of just 5 feet for the entire length of RAF Fairford's runway. From inside the massive strike aircraft, it must surely have felt as though they were actually in the ground. Thank God for ground effect. Photo Colin Smedley"

But I'm no expert on this aircraft, so I defer to those who know more about it then I do.:)

I believe the above to be accurate and correct :salute:

[TLAM Strike]

Some kind of space based ASAT from General Dynamics or Convair. :hmmm:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2789/convair1.jpg

[eddie]

I wonder if the X-37B might be carrying any of those ASAT's?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Eddie & Jim, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.

[Mork_417]

It was first spotted late 2010 and lasted for months.

Phil Plait wrote about it some weeks back:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/01/saturn_storm_cassini_spacecraft_pictures_of_monste r_storm_dying_out.html


Ah. Ok, yeah i remember something about that. Doubt i could have seen anything, since i didn't have a decent telescope then.

Thanks for the link! :up:

[Mork_417]

http://www.efluids.com/efluids/gallery/gallery_images/breaking_sound.jpg

I will always have a soft spot for the F4... Growing up, they would come over the house once a month doing maneuvers above our area, and a couple of times they did low passes over a couple of the lakes around here. When i got older, i was lucky enough to work on them a couple of years before they were retired. LOVED watching them at the air show here, back when they still had air shows here. :yep:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Sticking with flying.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=767&pictureid=6532

I'm guessing it's at the Mach Loop, guaranteed photographers there all year round. :)

[Jimbuna]

Eddie & Jim, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.

I prefer to use the word 'mistaken' :03:

[August]

I always thought this picture was pretty cool:

http://www.anvari.org/db/cols/Amazing_Moments/Amazing_Moment_2.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

That wave make me feel very insignificant. Look how small the man is to that wave. Sheesh.

[eddie]

Eddie & Jim, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.

I have no way of knowing if you were right or wrong, like I said, I'm no expert in these matters! My expertise with the Bucc comes from Flight sims. And you wouldn't want to see pics of how well I fly it!!:D

[Jimbuna]

http://www.vintagewings.ca/Portals/0/Vintage_Stories/NewStories-C/Lower%20than%20a%20snake/Lowdown50.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=low+flying+jaguar+oman&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=8aMf-Y7SvHDd-M&tbnid=HLHSh5msF6BBOM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vintagewings.ca%2FVintageNews %2FStories%2Ftabid%2F116%2FarticleType%2FArticleVi ew%2FarticleId%2F325%2Flanguage%2Fen-CA%2FLower-than-a-Snakes-Belly-in-a-Wagon-Rut.aspx&ei=plpLUZifEoOw0QWqkIC4CA&bvm=bv.44158598,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNFUDX_mZiQCYtAUevztv0p8Z_ZrHQ&ust=1363979288104011)

[TLAM Strike]

All those pics are giving people ideas! Now look what happened:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6942/iraniantomcatbellylandi.jpg

[Jimbuna]

LOL...so one was still flying :)

[Schroeder]

LOL...so one was still flying :)
Emphasis on "was"...;)

[Jimbuna]

Emphasis on "was"...;)

Rgr that :)

[Stealhead]

This happened back in 1999 at Eglin AFB Florida. A Security Forces car drove under a parked F-15. Word about this got passed around to all troops working on flightlines the day after it happened.

Apparently there where two SPs(military police) in the car and the passenger fell ill so the driver started heading back to post.Along the way their hand held radio fell under the car seat and they reached down to grab it taking their eyes away from driving and veered into the path of the parked F-15 which stopped the car as you can see.

One crew chief had to jump clear of the cars path. The plane was fully loaded with fuel at the time and such was the weight and damage to the car they had to use the jaws of life to get the two SPs out.The typical flight line driving speed on any DOD base is 10 MPH.I wonder should the F-15 get one Chevy Lumina added to its kill list? The driver was female by the way proving the old adage about female drivers.

Damage to the F-15 was minor but as you can see goodbye 13,000 dollar car and about that much in repairs to the F-15.The SP driving the car had to pay remunerations over time of course.The Department of Defense expects remuneration to be payed by the guilty party when negligence is the cause of damages.

http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q527/datsun260zyojimbo/cop_car_vs_f_15_zps4a412491.jpg

[Ducimus]

Damn rivet counters. ^

[Stealhead]

Damn Rivet counters. ^


I had a breaker bar once actually break while I was trying to loosen a pesky bolt they tried to make me pay for it. I said no dice I was applying force in the correct direction proper tool use.They dropped it gald they did because would not have payed a dime.Air Force rivet counters are the ones that hell refused. Another friend that did airframe inspections a B-1B crashed that he had done x-rays on its turbines they where looking to lay the blame on him.Turned out that the pilot buzzed a corn field in North Dakota and sucked up some cobs.

In the Lumina case I think an Article 15 would have been justified why pay someone with tax dollars and then make them pay for something that tax dollars are going to pay for anyway? Ah, but I don't work for the government.

[Ducimus]

Rivet counters is what I, as a CE troop, used to call SP's. Cause all they seemed to do was stand around, or sit in their crown vic, with nothing to do but count rivets in aircraft. :O:

[Stealhead]

Rivet counters is what I, as a CE troop, used to call SP's. Cause all they seemed to do was stand around, or sit in their crown vic, with nothing to do but count rivets in aircraft. :O:

Some of the SPs would try to pay me to alert them when the NCOs and officers where on the prowl so they would not get caught sleeping on duty.

Every time one of those charter planes with the nice flight attendants came up the taxiway then all the SPs show up other wise they just sat there.


I had bean counters in my mind for some reason.In that case it was rivet counters getting hit up by bean counters.I bet that SP is still paying for that some E-9 or something way to make a career.

[Ducimus]

Despite that napping, you'd be amazed how fast they react when someone crosses the red line. It's like a pack of dogs on a 3 legged cat, and they ALL want to get in on the action.

I wasn't there, but It made it's rounds through the squadron. A guy had to do some maintaince on one of those sheds out along the flight line. I'm not sure what the deal was, forgot to radio in i guess, or didn't go through a checkpoint. So nevermind the flight line badge pined on his shirt pocket, he found himself spread eagle kissing his truck hood with five M-16's pointed at his head.

Figures at my last duty assignment, i ended up in zone 1. Which is the flight line and all the restricted area's around it. I never got jacked, but it was never a dull moment unless doing a lap around perimeter road to kill time.

[TLAM Strike]

I had bean counters in my mind for some reason.In that case it was rivet counters getting hit up by bean counters
Join the Air Force and count things.

:O:

[Ducimus]

Join the Air Force and count things.

:O:

Which is why you have to have a higher ASVAB score in the Air Force. :O:

Personally, I counted things like nails, bolts, wielding rods, lumber, steel, and TDY's.

[Cybermat47]

http://imageshack.us/a/img812/3761/photomar22174919.jpg

Artwork of the Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger.

Guess what movie he worked on. :O:

[Mork_417]

Hmmmmm... :hmmm:


Who is Sigourney Weaver?

[TLAM Strike]

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/347/136387543614913.jpg

[Oberon]

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/fotografersha/13042289/1626817/1626817_original.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

Moses?

[Jimbuna]

^ The video..30 seconds mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvqBgmpPbiI

[Oberon]

Moses?

Moseski, his Russian cousin. :yep:

[fireftr18]

Moseski, his Russian cousin. :yep:

:Kaleun_Sick::k_rofl:

[Cybermat47]

http://imageshack.us/a/img839/6415/photomar28184042.jpg

Do you see it?

[Jimbuna]

See what?

[Dowly]

Sea. D'uh. :doh:

[Betonov]

Ljubljana in the 60's

http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/487967_10151386049633121_1886006232_n.jpg

[Cybermat47]

See what?

It's on the left side. Look closely, and you'll see a small Slenderman. I guess he was a teenager back then or something :O:

Sea. D'uh. :doh:

:haha:

[Jimbuna]

Nope, not seeing anything :nope:

[Méo]

Naa, coolest pics are from Dowly's signature, particularly this redhead pigtail girl with those eyes. :oops:

I wanna know where he picks these, plz :D

[Jimbuna]

From his mind/fantasies :D

[TLAM Strike]

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/448/serenity639.jpg

I don't mean to alarm anyone but I think we're being followed...

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7782/mig29airtoair.jpg

[fireftr18]

Naa, coolest pics are from Dowly's signature, particularly this redhead pigtail girl with those eyes. :oops:

I wanna know where he picks these, plz :D

I have to agree. That is a rather enjoyable picture to look at. :o

[Oberon]

Iiii'll just leave this right here then...

http://susancoffey.deviantart.com/

[Méo]

Iiii'll just leave this right here then...

http://susancoffey.deviantart.com/

Thanks, she's incredibly cute :arrgh!:

There's so many ways for a girl to be hot :sunny:

But I'm gonna stop here before a mod redirects me to the beautiful women thread.

[Schroeder]

I'll have my Coffey with sugar, thanks.:D

[Jimbuna]

Disbandment Harriers

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6812/1403u.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/255/1403u.jpg/)

[Oberon]

Not so much a cool pic as a very cool series of moving pictures:

http://vimeo.com/63490371

Absolutely stunning and a tribute to firefighters across the globe. :salute:

[eddie]

I thought these pictures of wet animals was pretty cool, half of them could be in the Gremlins movie!:D

http://now.msn.com/wet-animals-photos-celebrate-april-showers

[Buddahaid]

Do you see it?

Yes, there is a spider on the photo. Is that a Slenderman?

[Mork_417]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1303/volcano_reitze_1280.jpg

[fireftr18]

FloppyRat, is that an actual photo or a computer drawing? Or photoshoped?

[Mork_417]

It's my understanding that it's an actual photograph. Here is the link with the details.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130311.html

[RConch]

Show us your pictures of the U-boat memorial.

Thanks

[Sailor Steve]

Lovely!

If you have some non-naval pics you'd like to share, we also have the dedicated Subsim Photography thread.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=143583

[Horst Degen]

Nice!:salute:

[flag4]

fabulous - thanks...very immersive...cant help but see them...:03:

[Oberon]

Thread necromancy because I wanted to post this picture but not make a new thread to do so:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvQnDh9CQAAkmcC.jpg

[u crank]

That is so cool in so many ways. :yeah:

[Buddahaid]

Very cool and it will make great wallpaper.

[Oberon]

Here's a bigger version for you that I just found:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10547810_524198334380379_6048293808489482257_o.png

And

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10548342_523345094465703_9152400812751557150_o.png

:salute:

[TarJak]

Exceedingly cool!:up:

Just looking closer, someone's GoPro seems to have gone between shot one and shot two! Hope they were two separate flights.

[Jimbuna]

If you like digital art have a look here...it begins with aircraft and after wiping the drool off yer keyboard, scroll down to the bottom for some naval examples :rock:

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/483/language/en-CA/A-Terrifying-Beauty-the-Art-of-Piotr-Forkasiewicz.aspx

[TarJak]

If you like digital art have a look here...it begins with aircraft and after wiping the drool off yer keyboard, scroll down to the bottom for some naval examples :rock:

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/483/language/en-CA/A-Terrifying-Beauty-the-Art-of-Piotr-Forkasiewicz.aspx

https://www.behance.net/piotrforkasiewicz

[Herr-Berbunch]

Exceedingly cool!:up:

Just looking closer, someone's GoPro seems to have gone between shot one and shot two! Hope they were two separate flights.

In some other stills I saw the GoPro was facing forward, above it's not. :o

[Oberon]

In some other stills I saw the GoPro was facing forward, above it's not. :o

Unless it's a different Lanc in each shot, one is from the Can Lanc and the other the Brit. :hmmm:

[HunterICX]

http://i.imgur.com/3b2Sevs.jpg

Commando Corps of the Royal Netherlands Army

[Oberon]

Not a pic, but a very cool video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUREX8aFbMs

[u crank]

As the guy said..."holy smokin' toledo"

Nice find. :up:

[fireftr18]

Let's put this in perspective. They are so far away, you can't even hear it. It took several seconds for something going the speed of sound to reach them. The ginormous freighter in the video looks tiny. Now consider how big it looked. Imagine being right there.
:help:

[Tango589]

Commenters figured the boat was somewhere in the order of 2.5 to 2.8 miles away, depending on their guess at humidity. This means they were some pretty severe lumps of earth falling back into the sea to make those splashes! The shockwave hitting the clouds at 0:13 was pretty cool too.

[Jimbuna]

As the guy said..."holy smokin' toledo"

Nice find. :up:

Rgr that :sunny:

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B135e4EIgAE6GqD.jpg

https://twitter.com/timdavies_uk/status/530854641547104256/photo/1

[August]

http://home.comcast.net/~rdsterling/pwpimages/Pict0563%20r25.jpg

[AndyJWest]

The volcano is in a location which is probably familiar to many SH4 players - on the headland of Raboul bay, a regular target for photo recon missions. http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=252140

Next time you're trying to sneak in between the Japanese patrol boats, you can at least console yourself that the sim doesn't also model rocks half the size of your submarine crashing down.

[Onkel Neal]

Good thread, tag added: pics, pictures to make it easier to dig up.

Neal

[ReallyDedPoet]

Good thread, tag added: pics, pictures to make it easier to dig up.
Neal

:up:

[Oberon]

Thanks for bumping this Neal, I'd seen some pics on twitter over the past few weeks that could do with being put in here. So I shall do so. :up: Also, thanks for the tags :salute:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7ExKj5CIAMbKrC.jpg:large
Little known fact, early F-14s were equipped with turning signals.
(Actually an early F-14 on trials)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4PnCUbCIAEHm7m.jpg:large
Mind your head

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6Q49R3IMAAJuXb.jpg:large
Bit small this one, but what it represents is lovely, the RAFs V-force in action.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B59fFlzIcAEJeq-.jpg:large
Staying with the RAF, a Chinook Mk2 and a Blenheim Mk 1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByexSSwCcAAhDh1.jpg:large
And the Lancaster 'Vera' and her new companion, the newly restored and only one of two (like her companion) flying, Mosquito KA-114

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5936nqIYAAHiV9.jpg:large
And finally, something quite (inter)stellar, and I think needs no introduction. :salute:

[Onkel Neal]

You're welcome. I am trying to find our YouTube thread, with no success. I realized we need to use tags for threads like these to make them easier to find (by using the search tag function).

[Oberon]

I'll see if I can dig it up.

In the meantime, here's one for Jim:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7lQIMYIcAAQ9-0.jpg:large

EDIT: Odd...I've just gone through my post history and it doesn't seem to be there. Maybe someone else started it? :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

^ :rock:

This is a low pass and not a landing or a take-off.
http://i.imgur.com/EHxusF7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dd3VWib.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YAKdbhp.jpg

[Dowly]

I am trying to find our YouTube thread, with no success.

Take your pick:
The Humorous video thread (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174599)
The Youtube Poop Thread (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=198801)
Can we have a Youtube thread please? (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=196844)
Post your favourite hilarious youtube videos here (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=186375)

I dont think we've ever had one primary youtube thread though. :hmmm:

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7pkb7nCYAACIup.jpg:large

[Onkel Neal]

What? They have to take turns?

[Oberon]

What? They have to take turns?

Budget cuts... :yep: :03: :haha:

[Tchocky]

One I took in Hanoi last year at the Vietnamese Military History Museum.

http://i.imgur.com/cvPCRMr.jpg?1

May dredge the photo library and stick a thread up if there's enough :)

[Jimbuna]

Budget cuts... :yep: :03: :haha:

Pre budget cuts :sunny:

http://i.imgur.com/Ll0wnIX.jpg

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzR1po0CUAAmJn1.jpg:large

RAF Coningsby. 3 spitfires of various models starting up and preparing for a display.

[Jimbuna]

^ I like that :sunny:

[Eichhörnchen]

That's a fantastic picture, Oberon...

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8B8y1YIYAAsYIs.jpg:large

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/fOfWrW2.jpg

B-52 avoiding radar, first Gulf War

http://i.imgur.com/t90xNlG.jpg

A classic :O:

[BossMark]

Batman iceberg
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee374/rothwellwhite1/rothwellwhite1097/tumblr_n8qvkfdImM1qzqo8qo1_1280_zpso9fkkobu.jpg

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8Fu-JiCcAAFJqR.jpg:large

11th Bombardment Wing Convair

And to help prove it's not all Cool Aircraft pics (although they really are cool, aren't they?) here's a lovely picture of the grounds of Blenheim Palace:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8E1LY2CYAEUvsO.jpg:large

[Jimbuna]

USS Texas and San Jacinto monument in the background...been there :smug:

http://i.imgur.com/HhSfEcZ.jpg

[Oberon]

Here's a cool little pic that I found linked on facebook, not a cool aviation pic or anything, but cool and educational:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/w16tvqz3bl0uibrjyjcq.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

The thread title doesn't say anything about aviation, though it has trended in that direction, and that picture is very cool indeed. :rock:

[Aktungbby]

Still takes my breath away; move over Pompeii-Mt St Helens(both 5's on VEI scale)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_volcanic_eruptions http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/MSH80_st_helens_eruption_plume_07-22-80.jpg

[Oberon]

"Vancouver...Vancouver...this is it!" :dead:

[August]

"Vancouver...Vancouver...this is it!" :dead:

I was just wondering how many doomed people are in that picture.

[Oberon]

I was just wondering how many doomed people are in that picture.

I'd wager at least six or seven; campers, Harry Truman, Reid Blackburn, David Johnston. IIRC a lot of the 57 deaths were from the mudslides that engulfed the rivers around the volcano.
From a scientific viewpoint the eruption was quite interesting in its lateral blast, but the human cost was terrible...but at least there was warning of its eruption and people were able to evacuate, otherwise the death toll would have been a multitude higher.

[nikimcbee]

"Vancouver...Vancouver...this is it!" :dead:

I was just wondering how many doomed people are in that picture.
http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/Aaascienceimages2137/Harry%2BTruman.jpg

[August]

I'd wager at least six or seven; campers, Harry Truman, Reid Blackburn, David Johnston. IIRC a lot of the 57 deaths were from the mudslides that engulfed the rivers around the volcano.
From a scientific viewpoint the eruption was quite interesting in its lateral blast, but the human cost was terrible...but at least there was warning of its eruption and people were able to evacuate, otherwise the death toll would have been a multitude higher.

Very true.

[Jimbuna]

The thread title doesn't say anything about aviation, though it has trended in that direction, and that picture is very cool indeed. :rock:

Just for you....something currently in the news :03:

http://i.imgur.com/LzkxMCu.jpg

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkSGWXurUE

Some cool video from the twin bases.

[Jimbuna]

Yeah, like that :yeah:

[Aktungbby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkSGWXurUE

Some cool video from the twin bases. Well that is lovely but lets get a little aerobic exercise:nope: with our morning coffee shall we:D
with a little stay-awake music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKS8ddfbfEQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKS8ddfbfEQ) And just 'cause it's a naval forum and I'm in an AC/DC mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcie3ycnoI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcie3ycnoI)
:yeah:

[Oberon]

Aircraft cut-aways (some labelled in Russian):
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/75471.html

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/D0SOGUO.jpg

[Oberon]

This is definitely cool:

http://i.imgur.com/EZQ39RI.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/cE3xsPo.jpg

[Schroeder]

This is definitely cool:

http://i.imgur.com/EZQ39RI.jpg
I wonder how they did the guns. I guess they must have used some pipes on the inside for stability.:hmm2:

[Rockstar]

Converted B-17 bomber with U.S. Coast Guard markings, redisignated "PB-1G" and used for long-range SAR work. Note deployable lifeboat, wonder what the white dome in front of it is, a FLIR maybe?

Who knew?

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa408/jky242/780bf471a76687501dc9a07e8da7f52b.jpg

[Jimbuna]

^ Interesting article on the above here:

https://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/Boeing_PB1.pdf

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/A4rUjCP.jpg

[Moonlight]

This is not what you think it is, the answer is in the spoiler.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/parrot-bodypaint-woman-photo_n_5042375.html
This is not a parrot. It isn't a Scarlet Macaw, either, if you want to get technical.
Go on and take a closer look.
This is a photo of a woman covered in body paint, by Italian-born artist Johannes Stötter, who earned the title of Bodypainting World Champion in 2012.


http://s14.postimg.org/njgtoxaqp/post_25895_0_51645400_1424431456.jpg

[Oberon]

Very nice, Moonlight. Cleverly done. :yep:

[Rockstar]

I don't see a parrot either I see a boobie

[Rockstar]

Now this dude is cool and a breaker sailor too boot! But probably more fitting these days it should be placed in the not so politically correct category.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa408/jky242/2c426c7dcea11306b5b541c0f5fa37af.jpg

[u crank]

http://i1349.photobucket.com/albums/p759/marcelanthonypineau/36fc9a1d-b689-47cd-8741-3c6670aa3373_zpsmlcvreu4.jpg (http://s1349.photobucket.com/user/marcelanthonypineau/media/36fc9a1d-b689-47cd-8741-3c6670aa3373_zpsmlcvreu4.jpg.html)

[CCIP]

Initiate dump and burn :D

[Schroeder]

Initiate dump and burn :D
It's not good to take a dump in the cockpit...and if it burns you should change your eating habits.:hmph:


:O:

[Herr-Berbunch]

At my local air-to-ground range back in my youth there are three spotting towers to triangulate hits connected by wire for comms. On more than one occasion F-111s were responsible for cutting the cables whilst flying in between towers.

The Buccs and Jags knew they were there and so flew lower. :D

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/wBYQwvn.jpg

[fireftr18]

Only in Kentucky, does someone paint a locomotive to honor a university sports program.

http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r496/fireftr18/Wildcat%20loco_zpsxjzjxx4g.jpg (http://s1168.photobucket.com/user/fireftr18/media/Wildcat%20loco_zpsxjzjxx4g.jpg.html)

[Jimbuna]

The days when these were state of the art...Gloster Javelin

http://i.imgur.com/WLKV22N.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^ Interesting article on the above here:

https://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/Boeing_PB1.pdf

Thanks for that! I'll be waiting on something from it in the who/what/ wear game!:O:

[Jimbuna]

Two generations of bombers - B52 and B2

http://i.imgur.com/a3YiXFb.jpg

[Oberon]

Drone footage inside a volcanic caldera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFIWWM0Iv-U

[Oberon]

3rd UK Division's Lead Armoured Task Force:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_cRDNBUgAECZNi.jpg:large

[Stealhead]

Converted B-17 bomber with U.S. Coast Guard markings, redisignated "PB-1G" and used for long-range SAR work. Note deployable lifeboat, wonder what the white dome in front of it is, a FLIR maybe?

Who knew?

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa408/jky242/780bf471a76687501dc9a07e8da7f52b.jpg
Little late but that dome is for radar. FLIR or forward looking infrared was not aircraft deployable until the late 60's the AC-130A was the first aircraft to carry FLIR.

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/mmBVmHj.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/sPSE7SI.jpg

[Aktungbby]

Total eclipse from Svalbard Island:cool::sunny: http://imgick.syracuse.com/home/syr-media/width960/img/post-standard/photo/2015/03/20/-656023e2669d5536.JPG

[Dowly]

I found this quite amusing.
http://i.imgur.com/k3mtaSO.jpg

Caption reads: "Finns have camouflaged a road 10km from the border with hanging spruce trees. 27.06.1941"

[Jimbuna]

NASA Test Aircraft
http://i.imgur.com/FmXkGTm.jpg

[fireftr18]

https://www.facebook.com/FlyingWarMachines/videos/592666830869881/

[Aktungbby]

Villarrica Volcano in Chile by night http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/photos/000/892/89265.adapt.676.1.jpghttp://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/volcano-eruption-calbuco-chile-2__880.gifand by day

[Fr8monkey]

Should change the name of that volcano to 'Mt. Doom'. :o

[Aktungbby]

Actually (In today's paper) this will be Mt Doom! http://www.iflscience.com/sites/www.iflscience.com/files/styles/ifls_large/public/blog/%5Bnid%5D/shutterstock_124808023.jpg?itok=FrnSEi9h
It’s already had three cataclysmic eruptions over the last 2 million years, covering much of North America in ash and creating the massive crater 40 kilometers long (25 miles long) and 60 kilometers wide (37 miles wide) that we now call Yellowstone National Park. But for the first time, scientists have imaged in 3D the whole magmatic network that makes up one of the world’s most dynamic volcanic systems, and they discovered enough magma to fill the Grand Canyon not just once or twice, but eleven times over.
This new research (http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/scientists-see-deeper-yellowstone-magma/), carried out by a group of seismologists from the University of Utah (http://www.utah.edu/) and published in the journal Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/04/22/science.aaa5648.abstract), has allowed scientists to solve a long-running mystery of how the already well-known shallower reservoir—which holds around 10,000 cubic kilometers (2,400 cubic miles) of magma just below the surface—connects with the magma plume that feeds it from 70 km (43 miles) down. The lower chamber adds 11,000 cubic miles of magma to the equation... http://www.rense.com/general31/overdue.htm (http://www.rense.com/general31/overdue.htm) Scientist have discovered that the ground in Yellowstone if 74cm higher than in was in 1923 - indicating a massive swelling underneath the park. The reservoir is filling with magma at an alarming rate. The volcano erupts with a near-clockwork cycle of every 600,000 years. The last eruption was more than 640,000 years ago - we are overdue for annihilation. At least it won't be cold!:dead:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/55/b4/2e/55b42e22df470a030fc91ef27e7bfb77.jpg

[Tango589]

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm260/tango589/84564679.jpg

Muhammed Ali posing with a couple of fans, 1978.

[Oberon]

A true boxing legend. :yep: He would have definitely made for a more interesting fight against Mayweather, he would have laid the fool out.

Anyway, here's a B17 with external bomb racks.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/t31.0-8/11194585_10207045694808756_593158424390799460_o.jp g

[mapuc]

Here's a link to a real cool picture

http://ptstudios.tripod.com/carrier.html


Markus

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/ePmx51Q.jpg

[Tango589]

I've found my new desktop!:yeah:

[Aktungbby]

Dutch tulip fields!http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/5/0/8/85508_v1.jpgThe way to U-Cranks house!:rotfl2:http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/5/0/3/85503_v1.jpg

[Aktungbby]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/JB-17G_Engine_Test_Bed.jpg/1024px-JB-17G_Engine_Test_Bed.jpg

[Jimbuna]

I've found my new desktop!:yeah:

If your making reference to the Spt and Hurri the best resolution can be found by clicking on the picture in the link below:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitfire_P7350_by_the_RAF.jpg

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEtuyVqWgAAARSG.jpg:large

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/EAjWcig.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^:k_confused:On yer 5:30!! What air controller got fired for that?!

[Jimbuna]

As far as I'm aware the incident was never reported as a near miss.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'll wait for Tchocky to confirm, but I reckon that's safe, the perspective is spot of for a small A300 being closer than the 777. Looks good though. :yeah:

[Oberon]

I'll wait for Tchocky to confirm, but I reckon that's safe, the perspective is spot of for a small A300 being closer than the 777. Looks good though. :yeah:

Yeah, IIRC a lot of twitter and facebook types reposted it with the 'Near Miss' hype, and I think even the Beeb picked up on it...and then they realised that telephoto lenses existed.

Here's pprunes take on it: http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/208698-near-miss-over-hammers.html

[Aktungbby]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/UK_Roundabout_8_Cars.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Roundabout_8_Cars.gif):Dsand castle http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Sand_sculpture.jpg

[Aktungbby]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/London_Eye_panorama.jpg

[donna52522]

http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j408/donna577/10850066_10153102316226489_1456908789225080329_n_z ps2uakxxoj.jpg (http://s1084.photobucket.com/user/donna577/media/10850066_10153102316226489_1456908789225080329_n_z ps2uakxxoj.jpg.html)

[Jimbuna]

This one was most definitely a 'near miss'.

http://i.imgur.com/scyg8x6.jpg

[Rockstar]

USS Wolverine, side wheel propulsion aircraft carrier

http://i0.wp.com/news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USS_Wolverine_IX-64_Lake_Michigan_1943.jpg?resize=625%2C399

[Aktungbby]

One of two converted side wheel vessels of considerable elegance: SS Greater Buffalo(USS SABLE and USS WOLVERINE IX-64) converted from the SS Seeandbee-a coal burning side wheeler:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/SeeandBee.jpg/1024px-SeeandBee.jpgGreater Buffalo.>http://www.vintagewings.ca/Portals/0/Vintage_Stories/News%20Stories%20H/The%20Lakers/The-Lakers94.jpg http://www.vintagewings.ca/Portals/0/Vintage_Stories/News%20Stories%20H/The%20Lakers/The-Lakers22.jpg< USS Woverine/USS SABLE IX-81>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/USS_Sable_%28IX-81%29.jpg/300px-USS_Sable_%28IX-81%29.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Sable_(IX-81).jpg)Sable was the training ship President G.H.W. Bush trained on ...Of the estimated 135–300 aircraft lost during training, 35 have been salvaged and the search for more is underway. Both were scrapped by 1948!

[Schroeder]

Two of our now retired training F4 Phantoms somewhere over a US desert.
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/3536646665363563.jpg

[fireftr18]

Beautiful panoramic of London, Achtung!
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Aktungbby]

Beautiful panoramic of London, Achtung!
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:Yeah that is a remarkable shot; I was there for week. Imperial War Museumhttp://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?pictureid=7158&albumid=815&dl=1386134208&thumb=1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/album.php?albumid=815&pictureid=7158) and Stonehenge. Great time.

[Mr Quatro]

You should've heard the sea story this picture had ... it was a real winner :o

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/72/59/87/725987d1067b47270e0cd688009e3f2d.jpg

[Tango589]

Had they invented a VTOL capable B52?

[Jimbuna]

http://i.imgur.com/0RS9kZ9.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^ Hey! they do it too!:Dhttps://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.barcroft.tv/e31ed31a-a535-4cc7-9e2f-08e17ad990c2.jpg

[Mr Quatro]

Copy this China :know:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ed/17/fd/ed17fd25ed1a198a0bf73ad36a4a69bb.jpg

SR-91 Aurora

[Oberon]

I'm sure China can make movie props too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_%28film%29)...

[Oberon]

Don't land on the wrong aircraft carrier:

https://apron6.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/rrqpzbs.jpg

http://apron6.com/2015/03/25/why-you-shouldnt-land-on-the-wrong-carrier/

[Jimbuna]

I'm sure China can make movie props too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_%28film%29)...

Don't go leaving Iran out of this.

http://i.imgur.com/oGCVEp7.jpg

[Oberon]

http://i.imgur.com/6tr67wB.jpg

[u crank]

Wow. Max Planck, Marie Curie and Albert Einstien in the first row. There's some heavy hitters. :O:

Great post Oberon.

[Oberon]

Wow. Max Planck, Marie Curie and Albert Einstien in the first row. There's some heavy hitters. :O:

Great post Oberon.

Apparently during this conference:

Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, remarked "God does not play dice". Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

[Aktungbby]

Wow. Max Planck, Marie Curie and Albert Einstien in the first row. There's some heavy hitters. :O:

Great post Oberon.

Apparently during this conference:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference

Indeed, the real heavy hitter is in the second row: Neils Bohrhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Coat_of_Arms_of_Niels_Bohr.svg/240px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Niels_Bohr.svg.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Niels_Bohr.svg) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr)

[Sailor Steve]

That is just an awesome picture! :rock:

[Dmitry Markov]

I naturally have goosebumps looking at this picture.
If You Guys read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" - that's the moment when Sirius shows Harry a photo of the first lineup of the Order - with his parents and parnets of his friends still alive...

[Buddahaid]

Sorry, Harry what? I've never been interested in the genre. It is, however, a very cool photo I've never seen before.

[Oberon]

http://i.imgur.com/FpcixF6.jpg

A Sikh in New Zealand removes his turban to cradle an injured childs head. (http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-man-didnt-hesitate-remove-turban)

[Jimbuna]

Whilst I was living in Holland the sight of planes crossing the motorway at Schiphol Airport never ceased to amaze me.

http://i.imgur.com/RN02K70.jpg

[Aktungbby]

Whilst I was living in Holland the sight of planes crossing the motorway at Schiphol Airport never ceased to amaze me.
That's sealevel BBY Try the 'mile high' club!:D Denver's Stapleton Airport over I-70...Freaked me out too the first time I saw it-very distracting at freeway speed! The fuel vapors are annoying too! :ohttp://i.imgur.com/NePFTvm.jpg

[BossMark]

http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee374/rothwellwhite1/bossmarks%20pictures/a96986_a607_4-dean_zpsk37sozno.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

Airport tunnels? I grew up with the original.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Sepulveda%201953_zpsk3lcz5p9.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/SailorSteve/media/Sepulveda%201953_zpsk3lcz5p9.jpg.html)

[Jimbuna]

Someone mention airport tunnel?

http://i.imgur.com/UDHL6U7.jpg

Possibly a fake.

[Oberon]

Does look a bit suspect...

This on the other hand is definitely not a fake:

http://www.pdxhistory.com/assets/images/flythru.jpg

http://www.nastillamook.org/faqs/misc/hangarplane.htm

[Aktungbby]

Does look a bit suspect...

This on the other hand is definitely not a fake:

http://www.pdxhistory.com/assets/images/flythru.jpg

http://www.nastillamook.org/faqs/misc/hangarplane.htm

Not an unuseful 'social skill' in a dogfight when promenading le boulevards of Gay Paree...in a Mustang:D Kudos to the Kraut too!:rock:(an A 4 effort at least)http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/03/article-2533373-1A67496300000578-171_634x508.jpghttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533373/WWII-fighter-pilot-flew-THROUGH-Eiffel-Tower-dies-Virginia-aged-92.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533373/WWII-fighter-pilot-flew-THROUGH-Eiffel-Tower-dies-Virginia-aged-92.html)

[Oberon]

http://i.imgur.com/Sl0meEK.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Definitely not a fake...

http://i.imgur.com/IiQROYR.jpg

The video to confirm (adult language at the end).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Q99XsYb1w

[magic452]

Airport tunnels? I grew up with the original.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Sepulveda%201953_zpsk3lcz5p9.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/SailorSteve/media/Sepulveda%201953_zpsk3lcz5p9.jpg.html)

Where abouts did you grow up? I lived not 5 minutes from there.

Magic

[Herr-Berbunch]

Definitely not a fake...

http://i.imgur.com/IiQROYR.jpg

The video to confirm (adult language at the end).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Q99XsYb1w

Must be Ray Hanna, the king of low and aerobatics in the UK. Remember the start of 'A Piece of Cake' taking a Spit under a bridge?

[Sailor Steve]

Where abouts did you grow up? I lived not 5 minutes from there.
Redondo Beach. My dad was a pilot with United for thirty-six years. :sunny:

[Mr Quatro]

Rare image of a B-2 stealth bomber and its Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker buster bomb.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d6/4e/b4/d64eb4b83e7a8c59ee6fb9c59e42cd90.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

Must be Ray Hanna, the king of low and aerobatics in the UK. Remember the start of 'A Piece of Cake' taking a Spit under a bridge?

That's the best thing I've seen for ages. I once did a painting of "K5054" which you can see elsewhere on the forum...

[Aktungbby]

This had a 'happy ending' in calm air http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/B-52-no-tail.jpgand fortunately was not carrying one of these http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/B-53_nuclear_bomb-706x469.jpg (http://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/B-53_nuclear_bomb.jpg) one of two live, 9 mega-ton B53 thermonuclear bombs

[Mr Quatro]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/39/20/8c/39208cf8b670af2aefd00a84435c3f63.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^the only thing worse than an AC130...is two AC130'shttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/44/57/b1/4457b168f73cc1768efa9716cd70a44a.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9d/0c/68/9d0c689a44d9aa507540f790b3017403.jpg

[Aktungbby]

And the proud grandpa: 'Puff the Magic Dragon' https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7b/d7/db/7bd7db106b7e8a7423e6ed662f7d7c6b.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/MXU-470.jpghttp://www.dc3history.org/images/340_c-d49.jpg (http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?process=gallery&gallery_id=14065&provider_id=425)How bad is bad?!!: Like a vulture "Spooky" slowly circled its target at 2,000 feet and with all its guns blazing at the rate of 6,000 rounds a minute, there was no place to hide. "Whoever built 'Puff' had a sick mind." said one soldier. "At night it looked like a red line of light coming from the heavens, like Hell leaking fire." "Once 'Puff' had done his work on an North Vietnamese Army company and we went out on patrol to count bodies," said another soldier. "We walked for about a mile and didn't see anything. First we could smell it, and then we couldn't believe what we saw. What was once 200 men was now a stream of slush. 'Puff' had shredded them to bits leaving nothing but communist mush. It was just like putting 200 men through a meat grinder. When Puff did his work there wasn't enough left to put in a bag and send home to Mama."

[Dowly]

Upside down iceberg:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/60/c7/9b/60c79b3b2006f4c93a7c860bd1dda61f.jpg

[Aktungbby]

http://onebigphoto.com/uploads/2015/06/powerful-solar-storm-sparks-stunning-northern-lights.jpg (http://onebigphoto.com/surfing-in-alaska/)

[Aktungbby]

ALL good Photography is a study of SPACE AND TIME: sometimes literally! http://onebigphoto.com/uploads/2015/06/astronaut-through-water-bubble.jpg (http://onebigphoto.com/chulyshman-river-from-above-russia/)

[Jimbuna]

Back in the day...

http://i.imgur.com/hSxziMB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L1tfxCG.jpg

[Harvs]

Grand Prismatic Spring. Wyoming USA.
http://i.imgur.com/jFbWcAO.jpg

[Aktungbby]

goes nicely with post #166:arrgh!:

[Harvs]

http://i.imgur.com/pP5pawN.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://i.imgur.com/L1tfxCG.jpg

111, 92, 74, 56, 23, 19, 11. I'd hope that the next one along is 5. :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

111, 92, 74, 56, 23, 19, 11. I'd hope that the next one along is 5. :sunny:

Rgr that....from my badge collection:

http://i.imgur.com/ve3GoAK.jpg

[Oberon]

A cool series of pictures here, especially for those who are state-side:

http://i.imgur.com/k3WY49t.jpg

A country doctor in 1948 (http://imgur.com/gallery/DMFvL)

[Torplexed]

I guess this is what you would call high timber. A 74 meter tall sequoia in the state of Nevada

http://pyxis.homestead.com/3200_year_old_tree.jpg

[Aktungbby]

^ I actually did the security for an ad shoot on this one...and drove thru it myself:03:...Next to whales, Redwoods or Sequoias are the most awesome things on the planet IMHO: http://project-jk.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=422244https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wgkRS-VA3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wgkRS-VA3o)

[Betonov]

Are cool flags considered a cool pic, I'd like to submit the flag of the city of Zheleznogorsk

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Flag_of_Zheleznogorsk_(Krasnoyarsk_krai).png

It's a bear breaking the nucleus of an atom, how cool is that :)

[Jimbuna]

Radiating :)

[Aktungbby]

http://histbase.com/USS_Iowa/Images/USS_Iowa_Golden_Gate.jpg

[Torplexed]

FitzCarRaldo. When Hitler gives you a Mercedes, there is always a burden to bear.

http://pyxis.homestead.com/1938_mercedes.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

An old colleague of mine and some friends touring France by air, this is near Gap Tallard in the Alps.

http://i.imgur.com/hUoSVpp.jpg

[Jimbuna]

^ That looks so good Tony :cool:

[Oberon]

Whole bunch of pics from the moon here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157656712716754

[Aktungbby]

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/667/cache/housing-development-mexico_66700_990x742.jpgMexico city housing project; from helicopter.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11754685_906665226041263_7646819477940826858_o.jpg MAN that gives me head ache- Too close!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ea/6a/8e/ea6a8e81b46be34287c94b4248098ad6.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/47/68/d6/4768d6eb4cfa52715ad37fabd6f735b2.jpgU can't get closer than this!??

[Oberon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRDeHY8UwAEdTVC.jpg:large

[Torplexed]

A super cell thunderstorm over eastern Montana.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1011/thundercell_heavey.jpg

[Aktungbby]

better: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/02/article-1334672-0C5121D7000005DC-396_964x533.jpghttp://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2015/06/cropoftornadoes.jpg The first time I ever saw an adult scared (my mom) was in Minnesota in the 1950's. The sky was yellow, Glenn Miller was on the radio; and suddenly Mom ordered everyone (us kids) into the basement and you could hear a train coming with tunnel-like reverberation...I'll take a 'quake' any day!