Random photo montage of enjoyment......

I got you.

More recent jewels.

The Battleship Iowa.

USS Nevada, BB-36.

Dido class anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Argonaut and a Crown Colony class light cruiser in Malta harbor.

Sad. HMS Victorious being towed away for scrap, 1969. From 1966 onward, Britain's power projection capabilities began to erode, with many carriers decommissioned(some at the end of expensive refits, like the Victorious, here.).


HMS Colossus, with rest of the Grand Fleet's Dreadnoughts and Cruisers, WWI.

I can just imagine some drunk soldier passed out in one of those trucks waking up and getting the scare of his/her life!

Ah, the BAC Lightning. Very odd airplane.

I fucking love the English Electric Lighting. I always have a weakness for air intake nosed aircraft, I keep trying to get my buddy to buy a MiG 19.

At these prices who can afford not to? I saw real life functioning MIG's in Poland when I was in the army. They are pretty kick-ass. The Polish air traffic control guys got some pilots to buzz the tower when we were in it! Their safety rules are a little different than ours.

USS Bonhomme Richard, on her way to Bremerton to be stored, 1971.

USS Bennington, CV-20, in reserve at PSNS, 1990.

USS Iowa, BB-61, USS Wisconsin, BB-64, and USS Shangri-La, CV-38, in 1978.

USS Somers, DDG-34, and 2 other Forest Sherman class destroyers, laid up in Hawaii, early 1990's.

@Lanzman , did you get to see any of this today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1003&v=fEdZafAHG2Q

Sadly no. I was driving to Kent Ohio today and was out of DC before the event. I saw a couple of the planes forming up but nothing exciting.

On 12 August 1944 FIGHTIN COCK was hit by flak over France and had her electrical and hydraulic systems destroyed. Although the pilot was able to nurse her back to their home field in England and had the other crew to bail out, both he and his copilot were killed in the crash landing when the ship skidded off the runway into the control tower.

Old Ironsides goes in to dry dock.

At the time, I'd heard about one of the Avengers having to make an emergency landing, but USAToday posted the video today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=160&v=HkvcwXqBJDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=292&v=RcPTnsAP9wU

A little compositing with a couple of my models of WWII planes that were never put into service. A Northrop XP-79B flying wing fighter takes down an Arado 555 Amerika Bomber

Aaaand finishing 2 small models in 2 days, here's another wacky Nazi proposal. The Henschel 132 was a dive bomber proposal where the pilot lay prone on a couch to help counter the G-forces on pullout (oddly enugh the XP-79 used the same idea). Here's one strafing Russian tanks. You're velcome.

Teterboro Airport, June 20, 2015

How'd you get it to lay on its side like that?

If one of the pics is sideways, it ain't sideways on my screen.

Also present at Teterboro was this little thing:

The rolling shutter on cell phone cameras makes props look funky. Those things are at idle RPM and they look like they're barely turning. At one point the #4 engine syncs up with my shutter and stands still!

HMS Malaya, USS Alabama and USS Indiana in Atlantic waters.


K.U.K Arpad, of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.


ZSU-23-4 mobile anti-aircraft gun.


A French Renault FT tank, captured by Germans, and put on a rock in Norway.

FTFY

Gul got me thinking. Trains! Great Northern Railway trains!

Police confiscate WW2 tank hidden in cellar



From another website about the story:

My dad always wanted to own a tank, mostly so that he could drive over the traffic in front of him.