Blue Sky

RAF 1941

RUGGED BUGGY ---- B-24D-5-CO---- 41-23819 44th Bomb Group / 68th Bomb Squadron

"This is a patch designed for the 2nd as in 2nd Air Expeditionary Group, which was composed of B-52Hs and KC-10s. This was designed as the group/wing patch for the deployment of B-52H bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale AFB and KC-10s from McGuire AFB to the atoll island of Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territories (B.I.O.T.). This deployment was in 1998 and lasted for over six months. The bombers sat CALCM alert until they were executed and struck targets in Iraq in Dec 1998. The patch depicts a B-52 being refueled by a KC-10 as it flies over the outline of the atoll island of Diego Garcia. Needless to say, it is not SAC related as SAC was sadly no more by then. I know this because I was part of the deployment for 78 days, and have that patch as a memento"

Ok, proprio come avevo immaginato, in effetti il grigio è l'ideale per uno sfondo "Imparziale"

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:wip41: Homebrewed helicopter

Belle belle belle, altra cusriosità, ma con che cosa fai lo sfondo??? Devo dire che ha uno stile asettico, che mette in risalto le peculiarità del modello!

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Nose art painted by AMM2c Hal Olsen CASU-44 Tinian, Marianas ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE PB4Y-2 BuNo 59441 VPB-108 and VPB-200 This aircraft ended its days after the undercarriage failed on return from a flight. Any further information on its operational activity and its crews would be greatly appreciated.

MKII-H1A Mk II Helmet BEF Infantry, France 1940 (p 22) As the BEF is pushed back to the French coast in May 1940 an infantryman (who also appears on the front cover of this book) waits for orders, with rifle slung. Although not yet issued to the BEF in its entirety, the battledress uniform in its original specification as manufactured from late 1938 was in use with most front line units; note the uncomfortable unlined collar of the serge blouse. An Mk VI respirator haversack carries the gas mask in the alert position; this particular model was introduced in 1939. Passing through the rings of the respirator haversack are the white tapes of the Cape, Anti -Gas, seen rolled behind the soldier’s head and resting above his small pack. A hessian cover with additional "brush loops" is fitted over the Mk II helmet (manufactured from 1938) to camouflage it and prevent reflections. Such covers, echoing practice during the Great War were unofficial but were made up by certain units during the battle of France; one original example is known with a painted hessian divisional flash sewn on. Helmet nets were also beginning to be issued and saw limited use in France; but most helmets were worn uncovered and uncamouflaged - which is somewhat surprising; as the paint finish on many early helmets was "eggshell" or satin rather than matt, without the addition of sand to coarsen the finish and kill reflections. Note that this respirator haversack has been "blancoed"- scrubbed with the same water-dilute powder preservative as the webbing harness. Later in the war hessian covers were sometimes seen worn over haversacks to prevent heavy soiling during exercises; the haversack could not easily be laundered without appearing conspicuously washed out thereafter.

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 142 (VMFA-142) is a reserve United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet squadron. The squadron is based at Naval Air Station Atlanta, Georgia and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 42 (MAG-42), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW). Due to a re-organization within Marine aviation, the squadron is going to move Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas and be placed in a cadre status under Marine Aircraft Group 41 This patch does not come with velcro attached.

Char Seam Char Seam (Poniatowski-Petroleo-Electrique) was an experimental tank developed in 1940 by the Societe d'Etudes et d'Applications Mecaniques and fitted with a gasoline-electric transmission. Never armed.

Quoto.....Diciamo che ci fu la combinazione di entrambi le cose , Il primo Phantom ad adottare un cannone interno fu l'F-4 E con il suo M61A1 Gatling da 20mm con 640 colpi, adottato per richiesta dell'USAF. Collaudato il 30 Giugno 1967, l'F4E portava un radar più piccolo ed aveva un settimo serbatoio in fusoliera per bilanciare il peso dell'arma. L'Us Navy, non sviluppò mai un Phantom armato di cannone e, a ogni modo, nuovi sviluppi (tra cui in particolare l'addestramento al combattimento manovrato -Air Combat Manoeuvre ACM, che condusse alla scuola di caccia della Navy Top Gun) si dimostrarono più importanti del cannone contro i Mig. FINE OT!

Hughes Model 385 / XV-9A "Hot Cycle" 1964 Convinced that the use of gas pressure to drive rotors, as used in the XH-17 and proposed for the XH-28, was superior to conventional methods as the elimination of the transmission drive system resulted in a lighter, less complex, and more easily maintained system, Hughes engineers sought ways to improve the propulsive efficiency of pressure-jet rotors. Eventually concluding that much improvement would result from ducting the hot efflux of gas generators directly to cascade vanes at each blade-tip instead of piping cold air to tip-burning nozzles, they succeeded in attracting the interest of the US Army. Funded by the Army beginning in 1962, the multi-phase development programme for the Model 385 began with 60 hours of test running of a prototype hot-cycle rotor mounted on a ground rig. As results were encouraging, Hughes proceeded to the next phase, 15 hours of bench testing of the Model 385 propulsion module consisting of two General Electric YT64-GE-6 gas generators mounted at the tips of stub wings and driving a three-bladed rotor. Each blade was of two-spar construction with the hot efflux of the gas generators being taken to vanes at their tips by means of a Rene 41 high-temperature steel duct passing between the spars. Cooling air was forced through the leading and trailing edges of the constant-chord blades and was exhausted at the tip, fore and aft of the hot efflux. Results remaining promising, Hughes was authorized to proceed with the manufacture and testing of a research vehicle, the XV-9A (serial 64-15107), which was given a VTOL mission designator instead of the more traditional H helicopter designator. As the XV-9A was only intended as a demonstrator for the hot-cycle system, the Army requested that manufacturing costs be kept to a minimum by using components from other aircraft. Thus, the cockpit of a Hughes OH-6A (with side-by-side accommodation for a pilot and a co-pilot/flight test engineer) and the undercarriage of a Sikorsky H-34 were mated to a specially-built fuselage and V-tail. The hot efflux from two General Electric YT64-GE-6 gas generators, which were loaned by the Navy and mounted at the tips of a stub wing, drove the three-bladed rotor. Bleed air from these generators was ducted to a yaw control system at the tail. First flown by Robert G. Ferry at Culver City on 5 November, 1964, the XV-9A remained at the manufacturer's facility until it had completed an initial 15-hour flight test programme. It was then transferred to Edwards AFB, where an additional 23 hours were flown. From an engineering point of view, tests proved highly satisfactory and in 1965 Hughes confidently predicted that the hot-cycle system would be used for heavy-lift military helicopters and for compound civil helicopters. The latter, which were to have been fitted with short wings and forward thrust fans, were expected to fly at speeds of up to 480km/h. From the environmental and economic points of view, however, the XV-9A was less successful as the exhaust of hot efflux through cascade vanes at the tips of the rotor was noisy and unacceptable in urban areas and as fuel consumption rate was high. To mitigate these deficiencies, Hughes proposed a refinement of the pressure-jet concept based on the use of turbofans in lieu of gas generators. This warm-cycle system was tested in a wind tunnel and on a whirling stand but improvements were insufficient to warrant the manufacture and testing of a flying prototype, thus bringing to an end the development by Hughes of pressure-jet systems successively based on the cold-cycle principle, as used for the XH-17 and XH-28, the hot-cycle principle, as featured by the XV-9A, and the warm-cycle principle, as evaluated during whirling stand tests.www.aviastar.org

Per la verità non ho trovato nulla di specifico, ma forse si può attingere alle leggende antiche, ad esempio ho trovato varie motivazioni per le quali alcuni ponti vennero chiamati "Ponte del Diavolo"! (Talvolta il nome deriva dal fatto che l'opera di ingegneria era ritenuta così avanzate per l'epoca, da essere creduta artificio del diavolo) Nel medioevo, la costruzione di un ponte era un'opera di grande ingegno, considerata quasi prodigiosa. Per questo la costruzione dei ponti ha dato origine a molte leggende, che spesso avevano come protagonista il diavolo, in quanto congiungere due luoghi che la natura (e Dio) aveva voluto separati era vista da molti come un'opera "diabolica". (Wiki) La scienza e la tecnica sono forze diaboliche? La tradizione popolare darebbe una risposta affermativa, a giudicare dalle storie medievali in cui il Diavolo si improvvisa architetto, in luoghi in cui l'uomo con i suoi umani poteri era costretto a rinunciare. Ma cosa chiedeva in cambio il Diavolo? Vediamo: in Garfagnana, all'altezza del paese di Borgo a Mozzano, lungo la strada statale SS12 sulla quale ci si immette da Lucca seguendo il corso del fiume Serchio, ci troviamo davanti al ponte della Maddalena che unisce le due sponde. La sua costruzione risale ai tempi della Contessa Matilde di Canossa (1046-1115) ma il suo aspetto attuale è dovuto alla ricostruzione effettuata da Castruccio Castracani, condottiero e signore della vicina Lucca, ai primi del 1300. L'aspetto è quello medievale classico a "schiena d'asino". Il ponte posa sopra quattro piloni e tre arcate asimmetriche e una stretta carreggiata. L'arcata centrale sporge acutissima, formando una parabola talmente alta e ampia che la sua solidità sembra una sfida alla legge di gravità. Il ponte è comunemente chiamato "Ponte del Diavolo", in forza di una leggenda popolare della zona, rinforzata dall'aspetto "scombinato" del ponte. Si racconta che il capo muratore che aveva iniziato a costruirlo si accorse che non sarebbe riuscito a completare l'opera per il giorno fissato e, preso dalla paura delle possibili conseguenze (che all'epoca erano severe), decise di rivolgersi al Diavolo chiedendo aiuto per terminare il lavoro. Il Diavolo accettò di completare il ponte in una sola notte, in cambio dell'anima del primo passante che lo avesse attraversato. Il capo muratore accettò, il patto fu siglato, ma il muratore, preso dai rimorsi, andò a confessarsi da un religioso, che lo consigliò di far attraversare il ponte per primo ad un maiale, cosa che lui fece. Il Diavolo, amaramente beffato, scomparve in una nuvola di zolfo nelle acque del fiume. Ma se il Maligno non poté più riscuotere il suo pedaggio, il ponte - costruito su una buona via di comunicazione - consentì ad altri "diavoli" (signori e comunità locali) di imporre pesanti pedaggi per il transito. Eh sì, tolto un diavolo... (www.coopfirenze.it) Altre "Leggende" Il Ponte del Diavolo Nella foto: ponte della Maddalena, detto "Ponte del Diavolo", a Borgo a Mozzano Per informazioni più dettagliate cercheremo di aiutarti nell'impresa, è sempre bello riscostruire degli eventi storici poco conosciuti!

Stasera non stai in Forma Intru, questo te lo dedicai tempo fa è già postato! MISS ARKANSAS!

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This is the current color version of the squadron patch for the 336th Fighter Squadron, one of the F-15E Strike Eagle operational squadrons located at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC.

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Mi spiace ma è stato già postato!!! Altro esperimento simile al precedente!

Devo dire Intru che sei un esperto nel trovare i Contenitori della Nettezza urbana! Strange combo; panzer III/IV prototype towing a experimental armored infantry cubicle, that was supposed to provide effective infantry support in the most extreme muddy and snowy conditions.

Aggiornamenti in Casa Vorthex, il carro del popolo è oramai pronto, e dopo varie lotte sindacali si è riusciti nell'intento di dotare lo stabilimento di validi sistemi di acquisizione immagini! Vorty per natale ha ricevuto finalmente una Digitale! :asd: Vediamo un pò: Faccio i complimenti a Vorthex per aver apportato modelli di Navi e mezzi terrestri decisamente inconsueti nel nostro forum di modellismo quasi del tutto "aeronautico", spero che ci saranno altri utenti ferrati del settore!

B-52!

British A1E1 "Independent" Heavy Tank (1925)

Gyrocopter