Picture of the day. (11 Viewers)

[MiTasol]

very little though as the induction is designed to collect minimal spray

 

[Capt. Vick]

What's on the fuselage just below the gun turret? Looks like an emblem with "50" on it.

It looks like a window to me, with maybe paper with 50 written on it in that window.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

It looks like a window to me, with maybe paper with 50 written on it in that window.

Looks like your right.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

And this is salt water spray also being ingested into the engine.

Hell, it only has to last 'til September.

 

[syscom3]

Crewmen of USS Chicago (CA-136) ready to launch two Curtiss SC-1 Seahawks, in March 1945.

 

[CATCH 22]

Does anybody know what this is?

Some kind of Luftwaffe-radar testing "chamber" or a "night vision" of some sort? Or maybe just a prank?

 

[manta22]

Does anybody know what this is?
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Some kind of Luftwaffe-radar testing "chamber" or a "night vision" of some sort? Or maybe just a prank?

Instrument flying training hood?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Instrument flying training hood?

Had the same thought.

 

[N4521U]

The hood I used didn't look That alien like!!!!!!!! Geeeeeezus.

 

[WARSPITER]

I remember something about hoods worn by night aircrew to help 'adjust' early for night vision but that
time of the day looks very early.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thing is, if it's only just a hood for instrument flying, why all the gubbings on his back that would almost certainly interfere with his sitting in a cockpit seat.

 

[WARSPITER]

Thing is, if it's only just a hood for instrument flying, why all the gubbings on his back that would almost certainly interfere with his sitting in a cockpit seat.

Early attempt at lego to plug the crew into the seat so they wouldn't fall out when turning. Actually, now I think about it.....

 

[MiTasol]

Instrument flying training hood?

No because that has what appears to be radios and an antenna on the back and a pilot would not fit in his seat with that in between.

 

[MiTasol]

I remember something about hoods worn by night aircrew to help 'adjust' early for night vision but that
time of the day looks very early.

That makes more sense but why the backpack remains a question.

 

[swampyankee]

Does anybody know what this is?
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Some kind of Luftwaffe-radar testing "chamber" or a "night vision" of some sort? Or maybe just a prank?

Secret experiment to hybridize soldiers with jackasses?

 

[Snautzer01]

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[WARSPITER]

That makes more sense but why the backpack remains a question.

Perhaps it is nothing to do with being on a plane ? The aerial got me too.

Secret experiment to hybridize soldiers with jackasses?

Is that where the modern Russian army got it from ? Thanks.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Does anybody know what this is?
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Some kind of Luftwaffe-radar testing "chamber" or a "night vision" of some sort? Or maybe just a prank?

Virtual Reality Gaming hood v.0.0.1.0

 

[special ed]

Obviously an attempt to radio control humans.

 

[Ralph Haus]

Stumped as well. But I believe the 'he' is a 'she'? The hood is elongated to allow focus on some sort of readout, gauge?