The Military Pictures Thread

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Some photos of the most mugnificent aircraft evah





and the best demo team

I was based at an office at Farnborough next to the runway in 1998 when the official launch of the Typhoon took place at the airshow. The pilot had several practice flights in the days before the show. We couldn't do any work when it was flying due to the noise so reception kindly published a list of flight times so we could watch. The start of the display was takeoff and straight in to a vertical climb - very impressive.

[laurent]

Some photos of the most mugnificent aircraft evah





and the best demo team

I was based at an office at Farnborough next to the runway in 1998 when the official launch of the Typhoon took place at the airshow. The pilot had several practice flights in the days before the show. We couldn't do any work when it was flying due to the noise so reception kindly published a list of flight times so we could watch. The start of the display was takeoff and straight in to a vertical climb - very impressive.

The Rafale noise is quite something too.

I grew up near Cerny (one of the oldest meetings takes place there early may) and Bretigny (Centre d'essais en Vol) with a lot of the Roots of French aviation nearby (Melun Vilaroche near as well).

Greatest memory was a Mirage flying on the side above the old village hall <100m.

[Niegs]

When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!

[Torquemada 1420]

Unexpected at Blenheim yesterday. Probably at the 250ft limit.

[Niegs]

Not Ron Livingstone, but the real Lewis Nixon! The BoB casting people really did nail this one!

[mat the expat]

Not Ron Livingstone, but the real Lewis Nixon! The BoB casting people really did nail this one!

He shirley wasn't sober the whole war!

[Blackmac]

When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!

No more than a kid really.

[fishfoodie]

When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!

No more than a kid really.

I think the AIrborne attracted the younger recruits because of the promise of the extra $50 a month of jump pay, but as my Dad noted, the Army didn't pay you until after the jump, in case your chute didn't open !

[Niegs]

[redderneck]

Add a beard and that’d look uncannily like me firing
out a Guinness shite on Sunday morning after watching La Rochelle domestically abuse Leinster in the final.

[Jock42]

Thats pretty much the state Bessbrook was in when I was there in '06

[Margin__Walker]

This has been an interesting watch so far. Hour by hour account of D Day. This part 1 focusing on the air landings from 00:00 to 06:00

[Niegs]

Thats pretty much the state Bessbrook was in when I was there in '06

Was that little nook with all the porn just for wanking? I can't see what else it'd have been for.

[Jock42]

Thats pretty much the state Bessbrook was in when I was there in '06

Was that little nook with all the porn just for wanking? I can't see what else it'd have been for.

it's entirely possible but it could also be a single man room. I don't remember it but the whole of the Mill wasn't open to us when we were there.

[Yeeb]

"The hard-deck for today's exercise is 300ft..."

French airforce complains that it is too high

(some have managed to have bird strike with chickens )

You mean those outside the plane yep?

[Yeeb]

When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!

Scrawny little wretch hey, that’s about 11 stone

His steel balls must have been about 120 of those pounds

[laurent]

"The hard-deck for today's exercise is 300ft..."

French airforce complains that it is too high

(some have managed to have bird strike with chickens )

You mean those outside the plane yep?

Ask yourself Why the RAF does not want to "fight" anymore with the Armée de l'air.

[Uncle fester]

One of those flew over our house today for the Bray air show.

Also had a Lancaster + escort. That was proper spine tingly stuff.

[Niegs]

A couple of beauties were offering rides at my local airport today (I do not have $500 to spare for a 30 min trip, however )

[mat the expat]

Ah - I read on Reddit, a guy who was up in the Mitchell.

Nice!

[Niegs]

Stumbled upon this fella and his magnificent whiskers while doing some research. He was Capt Charles Torrence, Victoria Rifles (Montreal), taken in 1876

[Niegs]

PT! Good for you! Good for me!

"ONE! Hi-ya-ya..."



"Right, lads, all together now... I'm a little tea pot..."
"Sarge, I don't think we're doing it right."

[fishfoodie]

Dr Aidan MacCarthy in his UCC Rugby jersey, where he was qualifying as an MD.

PBS on Freesat are currently showing a documentary about him, & bloody hell but he had an astonishing war. Starting out enlisting in the RAF in 1938 on a coin-toss to decide whether or not to join the Navy, or the RAF, & ending up being given a katana by this guy



The POW camp commandant, Lt. Isao Kusuno, whose life he'd saved, by stopping Aussie POWs from lynching him when they heard that Japan had surrendered.

Did I mention where the camp was ?

..
.
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Nagasaki !

He retired from the RAF as an Air Commodore , & passed away in 1993, & we wouldn't know most of this, except that from all the beatings he received as a POW, he developed a benign brain tumor, & when he eventually got it removed in 1979, his Doctors wanted him to use his brain, & his memory, so he decided write his autobiography.

Bought the kindle edition of the book for my ereader for when I finish what I'm currently reading.

https://www.historynet.com/raf-officer- ... -war-ii/?f

[Torquemada 1420]

Dr Aidan MacCarthy in his UCC Rugby jersey, where he was qualifying as an MD.

PBS on Freesat are currently showing a documentary about him, & bloody hell but he had an astonishing war. Starting out enlisting in the RAF in 1938 on a coin-toss to decide whether or not to join the Navy, or the RAF, & ending up being given a katana by this guy



The POW camp commandant, Lt. Isao Kusuno, whose life he'd saved, by stopping Aussie POWs from lynching him when they heard that Japan had surrendered.

Did I mention where the camp was ?

..
.
.

Nagasaki !

He retired from the RAF as an Air Commodore , & passed away in 1993, & we wouldn't know most of this, except that from all the beatings he received as a POW, he developed a benign brain tumor, & when he eventually got it removed in 1979, his Doctors wanted him to use his brain, & his memory, so he decided write his autobiography.

Bought the kindle edition of the book for my ereader for when I finish what I'm currently reading.

https://www.historynet.com/raf-officer- ... -war-ii/?f

FM. Just read his POW ship was sunk by the Yanks en route to Japan too.

[fishfoodie]

Dr Aidan MacCarthy in his UCC Rugby jersey, where he was qualifying as an MD.

PBS on Freesat are currently showing a documentary about him, & bloody hell but he had an astonishing war. Starting out enlisting in the RAF in 1938 on a coin-toss to decide whether or not to join the Navy, or the RAF, & ending up being given a katana by this guy



The POW camp commandant, Lt. Isao Kusuno, whose life he'd saved, by stopping Aussie POWs from lynching him when they heard that Japan had surrendered.

Did I mention where the camp was ?

..
.
.

Nagasaki !

He retired from the RAF as an Air Commodore , & passed away in 1993, & we wouldn't know most of this, except that from all the beatings he received as a POW, he developed a benign brain tumor, & when he eventually got it removed in 1979, his Doctors wanted him to use his brain, & his memory, so he decided write his autobiography.

Bought the kindle edition of the book for my ereader for when I finish what I'm currently reading.

https://www.historynet.com/raf-officer- ... -war-ii/?f

FM. Just read his POW ship was sunk by the Yanks en route to Japan too.

At least he got to have a drink with the sub Captain on his way home from Japan

[fishfoodie]

Dr Aidan MacCarthy in his UCC Rugby jersey, where he was qualifying as an MD.

PBS on Freesat are currently showing a documentary about him, & bloody hell but he had an astonishing war. Starting out enlisting in the RAF in 1938 on a coin-toss to decide whether or not to join the Navy, or the RAF, & ending up being given a katana by this guy



The POW camp commandant, Lt. Isao Kusuno, whose life he'd saved, by stopping Aussie POWs from lynching him when they heard that Japan had surrendered.

Did I mention where the camp was ?

..
.
.

Nagasaki !

He retired from the RAF as an Air Commodore , & passed away in 1993, & we wouldn't know most of this, except that from all the beatings he received as a POW, he developed a benign brain tumor, & when he eventually got it removed in 1979, his Doctors wanted him to use his brain, & his memory, so he decided write his autobiography.

Bought the kindle edition of the book for my ereader for when I finish what I'm currently reading.

https://www.historynet.com/raf-officer- ... -war-ii/?f

FM. Just read his POW ship was sunk by the Yanks en route to Japan too.

At least he got to have a drink with the sub Captain on his way home from Japan

I liked this little snippet from how he was awarded the George Medal.

In May 1941 MacCarthy almost lost his life, an event that he remembers in grim detail. On a dark night a British bomber was returning from a raid on Germany. The inexperienced pilot radioed that the red and green alert on his instrument panel indicated that his landing gear was locked in the up position. The fire brigade swung into action, and MacCarthy rushed toward the nearest ambulance. The situation was further complicated by a German fighter on the bomber’s tail, and the pilot was warned not to use landing lights in his descent. The bomber came over the boundary fence too fast, its starboard wing clipped the ground and the ship cartwheeled. The cockpit was nearly obliterated, and instantly everything was a mass of flame. MacCarthy and the ambulance crew raced into the burning wreckage, which was lying on a bomb dump. Fearing an explosion at any moment, they dragged out the badly burned aircrew. The pilot was clearly dead, and as MacCarthy described it, ‘I wept for his inexperience and his mistakes and his lost youth. The bombs did not explode, and when we staggered clear, we knew that only a heaven-sent miracle had preserved us.’

For his valor in the rescue, MacCarthy was awarded the George Medal, presented by His Majesty, King George VI, at Buckingham Palace in November 1941. On the eve of the presentation, MacCarthy’s commanding officer had made him responsible for three bomber pilots who were being awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses the same day. His orders were explicit. Get them to the palace–sober–properly dressed and on time. Following a very hectic evening of West End bar hopping, MacCarthy managed to get his contingent dressed and to the palace on time–and ‘we were all reasonably sober,’ he recalled.

[laurent]

First Croatian Rafale delivered

in Flight

[Niegs]

[Niegs]

Thought this was a Python sketch or Blackadder outtake I hadn't seen for the first little bit!

[Niegs]

One man's Korean War photos featuring a lot of B-29 nose art ... "Squeeze Play" is maybe the most bizarre one I've ever seen.



... I wonder if the artist or one of the screw (whoops, typo ... leaving that) ... CREW knew "September Song" in real life!?

[Niegs]

Was listening to Cold War Conversations today and a former Vulcan pilot said on they had ejection seats, while the rest of the crew (3 more?) had to bail out. Jeezus, could they not use a longer static line?!

[Tilly Orifice]

Thought this was a Python sketch or Blackadder outtake I hadn't seen for the first little bit!

They look like defaulters on parade.

[Niegs]

Amazing photo ... would be interested to know if it's one that's newly-found?

[Niegs]

[Niegs]

If a guy looked like this in a WW2 movie today, people would probably say he doesn't look contemporary to the time.

[bogbunny]

https://fb.watch/l4aZ-rFelq/

Thats pretty much the state Bessbrook was in when I was there in '06

Was that little nook with all the porn just for wanking? I can't see what else it'd have been for.

it's entirely possible but it could also be a single man room. I don't remember it but the whole of the Mill wasn't open to us when we were there.

Had to fly from Bessbrook to the Sangar on the hill above Jonesborough back in the day. Grim place.

[mat the expat]

If a guy looked like this in a WW2 movie today, people would probably say he doesn't look contemporary to the time.

You know there are no negative waves in that tank, and Sunshine is very much loved!

[Niegs]

Jerries in their DAK pith helmets not long after the war!

[Niegs]

[Uncle fester]

Only Battleship to serve in both world wars?