Friday, December 30, 2022

Pincher and the Camel

Today we present the latest in our mascot series: a fine photo showing 'Pincher', resident mouser aboard the Royal Navy seaplane carrier HMS Vindex, perched atop the propeller hub of a Sopwith Camel during the Great War.

Enjoy, and remember... happiness is being owned by a cat...


 
Imperial War Museum


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Thursday, December 29, 2022

4-ARMed Buccaneer

Today we bring you a rather passively dramatic shot from 1968 showing a Blackburn Buccaneer of the Royal Navy loaded up for the SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) role, displaying an impressive load of four Matra AS.37 Martel anti-radiation missiles.

Enjoy, and keep that radar set switched off...


 
Project 914 Archives


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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Wimpy Down in the Weeds

Your blogmeister likes his running series, but cannot recall if he's already started one in which today's photo would fit. And he's too lazy to go a'lookin' at the moment. So, we shall either begin or continue our running series known as 'How Low Can You Go?' with this here shot of a Vickers Wellington from 11 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force, beatin' up the field for an undoubtedly nervous but thrilled photographer at RAF Bassingbourn in July of 1940.

Enjoy... and duck...


 
'Flight' Archive


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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Hunter

Aside from real purty pikshurs, we here at TWW also kinda like just plain-'ole nice pikshurs. And this one here certainly qualifies. Hawker Hunter F.6 XF389 of the Royal Air Force was snapped in fine fashion by an unknown (to us) shutterbug for 'The Aeroplane' during a demo flight at the Farnborough Airshow back in 1958. This jet was later transferred to the Royal Jordanian Air Force, then to the Royal Air Force of Oman.

Enjoy...

 

 
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Saturday, December 3, 2022

Brauchst du mich immer noch, um dein Bier zu halten?

 Hält die Klappe Karl.

 

 
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