Random photo montage of enjoyment......

Happy birthday, B-52! First flight was 15 April 1952. 65 years!

All that black smoke...

These ads are very visually appealing to me.

my son has a whole series of Taschen books about different decades showing all the ads - great stuff!

I would love to have one of those older Toyotas.

Especially that Corona. I love those things.

The first full flat-top carrier, HMS Argus circa 1918, pretending to be a large, strangely-painted block of wood.

I'm not sure, but I think that shack on the foredeck is a retractable bridge.

More ads.....

Marines fire a nonexplosive illumination round from an 81 mm mortar to deter enemy activity at Camp Shorserack, Afghanistan, July 15, 2017.

I fire an Uberti replica of a .44 caliber Colt Walker revolver at night to deter woodchuck activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=173&v=hQSqa7REpZ0

Probably told this one before: Prewar, Dad worked at Wrights, manufacturing airplane engines. Post-war, after flying fighters for the duration, he decided to switch to B-29s to learn multi-engine. As a B-29 pilot, he was doing the walk-around inspection on a plane he was about to fly, and found his own initials stamped on an engine!

Well it was either him or Jacob Patterson.

Jacob Patterson worked at Pratt & Whitney.

That's right.

Jeff Phillips was the one on the line at Wright.

Come to think of it, I bet Dad used the overlapped "JP" that his grandfather used when stamping something.
This is one of Great-Grandpop's wooden drafting triangles:


I've seen Dad do that with metal stamps on his stuff. In fact... *runs downstairs to get Dad's stamp set*...
Yup. Dad being Dad, he ground down a J and P stamp, wired them together to make a JP stamp:

Those cheek antennas are for our system!
https://www.harris.com/solution/analq-172-b-52-and-c-130-self-protection-system

"cheek antennas" sounds pretty ghey. Just sayin!

There's also "one in the tail."

A few years ago, the SOF guys dropped in at a local airport with a Shithook and invited everybody who worked on its electronics to drop in and have a look at the beast. I hadn't realized how insanely huge this thing was. That refueling probe is the size of a telephone pole!

A collection of parts flying in loose formation.

Clancy snoozing next to me on a couch pillow.



"Whut? Whaddaya want?"

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-wwii-naval-artifact-rusting-in-nevada-desert/782412021

I did not know that!

That turret should be salvaged, and put in Louisville. Take that business off the turret face, and fabricate some gun barrels.

Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear...