Random Cool Photo Thread

[Brettafett]

wrecked B24 H Gashouse gusView attachment 66188

Theres something captivating about this great photo.
An idyllic, pastoral setting, with a battle-worn steel shell, of one of the most destructive machines ever created, just sitting there, peacefully... At rest.
So much symbolism and analogy here.

 

[Micawber]

Am I the only one …. or did you guys notice that this is a ME -109 with British markings?

Part of RAF No 1426 Flight made up of captured Axis aircraft, commonly known as the "RAFwaffe" that after evaluation went on to tour various bases.

No. 1426 Flight RAF - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ausreenactor]

Am I the only one …. or did you guys notice that this is a ME -109 with British markings?

Yes 'Me' did....

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[Kermit3D]

Bell P-59 Airacomet

 

[Kermit3D]

Northrop Alpha

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[ausreenactor]

Northrop Alpha

Surely those are not windows for passengers?

 

[ausreenactor]

Bell P-59 Airacomet

Damn it...

Another kit I don't need. But that is one hell of an aircraft!

 

[flyincowboy]

women been very helpfull too!

 

[flyincowboy]

Some

white anyone?

 

[flyincowboy]

time to read

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[Micawber]

RAF Avro Lancaster III EE197 forced to make an emergency landing at RAF Spilsby after being damaged during a bombing raid over Germany - January 15th 1944.

(L-R) Pilot F. Wootton Gallager and crew; Alfred Young, Ronald Scott, Selwyn Fawcett, Charles Stewart, Kenneth Waddington & Murray Sherman

Frederick Wootton Gallager, Ronald Parson Scott, Kenneth Waddington, and Murray Sherman were later KIA in Lancaster III ME827 while on a mission over the Netherlands on June 22, 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - Scherschel Photographer

 

[Micawber]

I'm not sure I am at ease with referring to this photograph as 'cool' - sobering more like.

Avro Lancaster NN806 crash at RAF Fiskerton. Incredibly only one crew member was injured (sprained wrist), all other crew uninjured.

 

[Lord Flashheart]

Casually walking away with a belt of .303 ammo? And I think the boys at Spilsby deserve their smiles having walked away from that landing.

 

[ES335]

Hat's off to these young men, they took horrific casualty rates until the end of the war.

 

[ausreenactor]

 

[Silver Surfer]

hell. I didn't know that Chris craft made air craft.