Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

johnbr · Oct 23, 2018

Fw -183 2

Gnomey · Oct 24, 2018

Good stuff guys!

johnbr · Oct 25, 2018

ju-390

johnbr · Oct 25, 2018

It's Caesar. Three clues: 1) on BISMARCK, there was a 20mm AA gun on the main deck between Caesar and Doria. You can see one of these mounts at right (covered in canvas). The forward-most pair was behind Bruno, so this isn't the bow. 2) BISMARCK had practice guns between Caesar and Doria--you can see the machinery for one of them (I think the 105mm) peeking out from behind the lower turret. These were only aft, not forward. 3) In this picture, the lower turret has a rangefinder. Turret Anton did not have a rangefinder; Turret Doria had one. Therefore, this is Turret Caesar.

johnbr · Oct 25, 2018

HMS Hood, as seen from HMS Prince of Wales, goes into action on May 24, 1941.

Wurger · Oct 25, 2018

Shinpachi · Oct 25, 2018

Impressive pics, johnbr :thumbleft:

Shinpachi · Oct 27, 2018

Himeji Factory of Kawanishi Aircraft on April 18, 1943.

Source: Mr Akio Uetani

A local government of Kasai City near Kobe now builds a N1K2-J 1/1 scale model for its new museum planned beside an old IJN runway Uzurano. The museum is to open in the next spring.

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Wurger · Oct 27, 2018

johnbr · Oct 28, 2018

Burnelli Canadian Car & Foundry B-2000B Super Bomber. This 222ft span aircraft was CCF's proposal in the B-36 competition in 1942. It was to have been powered by eight Allison 3420s coupled in fours so that each pair provided 5,000 h.p., totalling 20,000 h.p. Armament called for a total of 14 20mm cannon in movable turrets located in the nose, at each end of the tail booms and in the upper and lower surfaces of the booms. With a normal bomb load of 40,000lb the B-2000B's all up weight would have been 220,000lb and the range 4,000 miles. The designed top speed was 300 m.p.h.