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[Glider]

Hawker Hunter

 

[Lucky13]

Hawker Hunter

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Hawker Hunter (J34 in Swedish Air Force) is definitely in the top 5....

....also when flying with the Black Arrows!

 

[Wurger]

 

[cammerjeff]

This was always my Favorite Hunter paint scheme, followed by the Lebanese Air Force

source Hawker Hunter - Wikiwand

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Jan, thank you for making me finally realise that I am old ! (tw*t !!)
I vaguely remember seeing the Black Arrows.

 

[SaparotRob]

I vaguely remember.

 

[Viking1066]

I was too young lol

 

[Lucky13]

Jan, thank you for making me finally realise that I am old ! (tw*t !!)
I vaguely remember seeing the Black Arrows.

This forum needs a "Aaaaawwww" emoji!
You were old when they built the pyramids and I'm not that far behind you kiddo!
I'm waking up everyday thinking, hoping, that today someone will ask me for an ID....

 

[Airframes]

Hell's teeth man !
I'm so old that I remember the first proposal for Noah's Ark having to be re-written - twice !!

 

[Lucky13]

Hell's teeth man !
I'm so old that I remember the first proposal for Noah's Ark having to be re-written - twice !!

So it was you!
It was my first week at work, the amount of overtime that I had to do was unreal...!

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Lucky13]

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/...the-story-of-sweden-s-daring-white-bus-rescue

 

[Airframes]

Ambulances waiting for the end of the Celtic v Rangers game ..............

 

[Lucky13]

Ambulances waiting for the end of the Celtic v Rangers game ..............

Indeed old boy, the Old Firm game....

 

[SaparotRob]

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https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250424-from-ravensbrück-to-freedom-the-story-of-sweden-s-daring-white-bus-rescue

I never knew this history.

 

[special ed]

The things one learns here.

 

[Lucky13]

Polish soldiers inside the ruined Monte Cassino monastery on the 18th of May 1944....

 

[Lucky13]

Is this a photoshop?

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Soviet delegation, Brest Litovsk (01-15-1918) :

Seated left to right :
Lev Kamenev (executed august 25,1936)
Adolph Joffé (suicide november 16, 1927)
Anastasia Bitsenko (executed june 16, 1938).

Standing left to right :
Vladimir Lipskiy (?)
Peteris Stucka (natural death 1932)
Léon Trotski (murdered august 2, 1940)
Lev Karakhan (executed september 20, 1937).

Not present :
Nikolaï Krylenko (executed july 29, 1938).
Grigori Sokolnikov (murdered by NKVD may 21, 1938).

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Been a soviet delegate was a high risk profesion