Random photo montage of enjoyment......

Ronda, Spain.




Pull up Ronda Spain on Google Maps and the canyons will be at the southwest edge of the city. Streetview offers full camera views over the edges. You can even go in the bull ring.

LOVE IT! One of my favorite aircraft no doubt.

The Austro-Hungarian Battleship Szent Istvan(Saint Stephen), shortly before sinking off Premuda island, after being torpedoed by an Italian motor torpedo boat, 1918.

USS Utah, BB 31.

A flight of Luftwaffe Lockheed F 104G Star fighters.

SB2U Vindicator dive bombers.

Rucksack kitteh! This morning I was grabbing my work clothes and threw stuff on my bed in my haste. I threw on my doorway chin-up bar, and my hunting rucksack. Kitteh turned lemons into lemonade and made a comfy bed.
Box kitteh(s)! One took over the box lid, and the other took over the box proper. I heard there was a "turf war" but I can't confirm it, and apparently they came to an understanding.
Worst carnival side-show siamese twins with conjoined cat and human baby EVER! I totally want my money back

Test of 26″ (66cm) Class “A” Main Armament Turret Face (Port) Plate, originally for IJN SHINANO, the third Japanese YAMATO-Class super-battleship (converted into an aircraft carrier, instead, and sunk on its way to final fitting out yard by a U.S. submarine), which made up far left side of turret face looking from inside turret out of gun port, with “D”-shaped cutout making up about half of left curved gun port forming center of long right side of plate.

Dad wrote home from the war, and Gram saved his letters. Every once in a while I pull one out of the box to see what Dad was up to over there. This time I pulled one from post-war, as he served out his remaining months of enlistment on an itty bitty island in the Pacific. How much excitement could there be, 3 months after the war ended?

:O

Waitaminnit . . . those are Raptors! Factory floor?

No. Looks like a hangar somewhere.

Note the OV-10s in the upper right part of the image.

All that image does is remind me I seriously need to visit Wright-Pat AF museum. I haven't been back there in 20 years.

Apparently, the OV-10's are being put to use in Syria and Iraq.

yes indeed! We used the OV-10 along with the A-10 for certain missions/tactics when I was at Eielson AFB in Alaska in the early 80's. Cool little birds!

Always thought the OV-10 would be a great plane to use for a small short-haul cargo business.

Where would you put the cargo, though?

There's a rear section with a butt-door. I don't think it's very big, though.
Ah - picture:
http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/images/Cal Fire 2009/hryan-ov-10-310-107w-6.jpg

I could also sell rides:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-medi...ogressive,q_80,w_636/bl2186phskg0nbczw1kx.jpg

Owned by a Bond villain?

Manarola, Italy. So, so, beautiful.

Yes, so don't you think it would be too over-powered to be economical, even if you converted it to put cargo everywhere, including the former back seat?

You know what I love? Victory Ships.





What I wouldn't give to have seen these babies at the commercial port here. Beautiful! These ships operated in both civilian, and military capacities from the mid 1940's to 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottsand-class_oil_recovery_ship

I had a feeling that's what it was used for.

Destroyers.....

The Italian destroyer Indomido. Commissioned in 1958, decommissioned in 1980.

FN Kleber, ex Z6 Theodore Riedel, in the late 40's. Commissioned in 1935 by the German Kriegsmarine, she survived the war to be awarded to France as reparations. She would be discarded in 1958.

HMCS Ottawa. Commissioned in 1956, withdrawn in 1994.

The Chinese Destroyer Anshan, formerly the Soviet Rakordny. Commissioned in 1940, transferred to PLAN in 1954, decommissioned in 1992.

Fin.

Now I used some pretty good hull-down positions in my day, but nothing this awesome.

On the occasion of the RAF's first F-35 delivery.

c. 1943-1945

Jackets of the 401st

Went aboard this old girl yesterday...

Naturally the kind of thing that would be forbidden in the modern AF, because everything must be the same. No fun allowed.