laurent wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:57 am
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 wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:57 am
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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:18 pm
by Niegs
When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 7:07 am
by Torquemada 1420
Unexpected at Blenheim yesterday. Probably at the 250ft limit.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 7:25 pm
by Niegs
Not Ron Livingstone, but the real Lewis Nixon! The BoB casting people really did nail this one!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 2:43 am
by mat the expat
Niegs wrote: Mon May 08, 2023 7:25 pm
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!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 3:47 pm
by Blackmac
Niegs wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 3:18 pm
When the historical figure is more 'Hollywood' looking than the actor portraying him!
Niegs wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 3:18 pm
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 !
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 1:18 am
by Niegs
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 9:24 pm
by 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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:56 pm
by Jock42
Thats pretty much the state Bessbrook was in when I was there in '06
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:25 pm
by 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
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:56 pm
"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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 11:02 pm
by 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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 10:54 pm
by 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 )
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2023 5:08 am
by mat the expat
Ah - I read on Reddit, a guy who was up in the Mitchell.
Nice!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:58 pm
by Niegs
Stumbled upon this fella and his magnificent whiskers while doing some research. He was Capt Charles Torrence, Victoria Rifles (Montreal), taken in 1876
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:50 pm
by 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."
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:46 pm
by 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:30 am
by laurent
First Croatian Rafale delivered
in Flight
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:04 pm
by Niegs
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:57 am
by Niegs
Thought this was a Python sketch or Blackadder outtake I hadn't seen for the first little bit!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:42 pm
by 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!?
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:41 am
by 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?!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:37 am
by Tilly Orifice
Niegs wrote: Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:57 am
Thought this was a Python sketch or Blackadder outtake I hadn't seen for the first little bit!
They look like defaulters on parade.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:21 am
by Niegs
Amazing photo ... would be interested to know if it's one that's newly-found?
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:48 am
by Niegs
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:58 am
by Niegs
If a guy looked like this in a WW2 movie today, people would probably say he doesn't look contemporary to the time.
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.
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:14 am
by mat the expat
Niegs wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:58 am
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!
Re: The Military Pictures Thread
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:46 am
by Niegs
Jerries in their DAK pith helmets not long after the war!
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