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Z-10 over Islamabad when it was under trials in Pakistan…

Cold War Jets | The sweeping lines of the Hawker Hunter (entered service RAF 1954)

Polish MiG-23MF [773x888]

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in action

F-15 lining up for some gas.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-14

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), front, exercises with the Republic of Singapore navy Formidable-class multi-role stealth frigate RSS Steadfast (FFS 70) in the South China Sea, May 25, 2020.  (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brenton Poyser/Released)

Silver mounted Moroccan koummiya dagger, mid 19th century

from Auctions Imperial

[OC] 8 Rough sketches (Which one should i make final? / Infos in Comment)

In an attempt to get some motivation to do my responsibilities, I'll be posting pictures of some of my notes.

These are for heat transfer:

Built a plane which works with the help of rubber bands

[OC] 𝗪𝗪𝟮 𝗣𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 – 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗙.𝗠𝗸.𝗫 «𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆» (Trivia in Comment)

Victorville Airport and its parked planes pictured from a Sentinel-2 satellite yesterday

Something of a unicorn of a capture: F-100D

1931  Sikorsky S-40

I made a wood topographic Airport Diagram. Laser burnt, hand assembled. Sky Acres Airport

F-15 lining up for some gas.

Dragon has achieved zero-g!

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in action

Imperial War Museum Opened by King George

An 18-inch naval gun (the largest ever used by Britain, and the second-largest ever used after those of Japan’s Yamato-class battleships in the next war), being installed at the Imperial War Museum in the Crystal Palace ahead of the June 1920 opening.

June 9 1920, London–Already in 1917, the Imperial War Cabinet began considering how to commemorate and preserve the history of the war.  An MP, Alfred Mond, proposed the idea of a National War Museum, and this was swiftly agreed to.  Proposals to expand the scope into a museum and memorial were rejected by the War Cabinet, who wanted to keep the two concepts separate (the Cenotaph would be unveiled on Armistice Day 1920).  To reflect the contributions of India and the other Dominions, the name was changed to the Imperial War Museum by the end of 1917.  The museum held a few temporary exhibitions in the following years, but did have a permanent location until June 9, 1920, when its site in the Crystal Palace was opened by King George V.

The museum would relocate in 1924 (well before the Crystal Palace burned in 1936), and again in 1936.  In the years since, its collections have grown to encompass material from the Second World War and subsequent British conflicts, and it has opened additional locations.

The author would like to thank the Imperial War Museum for their extensive photographic archive of the First World War, from which many of the pictures for Today in World War I were drawn.

SBD-5s of VB-16 aboard USS Lexington (CV-16) during operations off the Gilbert Islands, 1943

French troops at the Second Artois June 1915.

We don’t deserve Nicole Maines but god do we need her.

F-22 Raptor vs man

i took this picture last year, Fox V4 Ultralight PU-MHR

a mensch

HEAT (1995) dir. Michael Mann cinematography by Dante Spinotti

Last day as a maintainer on C-130s. It’s bittersweet, amazing planes, so many Greta people and stories.

notebook poetry

Museums, daydreams, embroidered school uniforms, the theatre and opera concerts.

You go on long trips to the library and pull even longer all-nighters.