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[rochie]

Did a spring clean.

This is everything, i use about 3 of those knives on a daily basis, some are 30+ years old.

Other stuff used as needed.

not sure where i got the cigar cutter but i've had it so long i can't throw it out !

 

[SaparotRob]

rochie Now that you can take on a holiday.

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It's also great for stashing body parts until the heat dies down.

 

[Wurger]

Did a spring clean.

This is everything, i use about 3 of those knives on a daily basis, some are 30+ years old.

Other stuff used as needed.

not sure where i got the cigar cutter but i've had it so long i can't throw it out !

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OK.... but what kind of torture do you use this robot coupe for? I get my coat.

 

[syscom3]

An H2X-equipped B-17F of the 482nd Bomb Group falls out of formation after being hit by flak over Berlin, 3 June 1944

 

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The remains of a B-24 of the 30th Bomb Group after a 75mm shell exploded in the cockpit.

 

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Deck crew spot a lightly damaged SB2C-3 of VB-18 on the deck of USS Intrepid (CV-11) after it returned from a sortie
during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944

 

[syscom3]

Martin Model 167 XA-22 Maryland s/n 40-706, NX22076, in 1939.

 

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Curtiss XP-40 in the NACA full-scale wind tunnel, Langley Field, Virginia, April 1939.
Curtiss-Wright's prototype fighter, the XP-40 (Model 75P), was evaluated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Virginia, in March and April 1939. NACA engineers placed the XP-40 inside the Full-Scale Wind Tunnel, which was capable of accepting airplanes with wing spans of up to 40 feet (12.2 meters). The airplane was a production Curtiss P-36A Hawk, serial number 38-10, which had been modified by replacing its original air-cooled Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp S1C1-G (R-1830-17) 14-cylinder radial engine with a Harold Caminez-designed, liquid-cooled, supercharged, 1,710.597-cubic-inch-displacement (28.032 liter) Allison Engineering Co. V-1710-C13 (V-1710-19).

 

[syscom3]

Christening of the Boeing 314 flying boat "California Clipper" of Pan American Airways (Pan Am) at Treasure Island, San
Francisco Bay, 25 April 1939.

 

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F4F Wildcat after ditching in San Diego Bay due to mechanical issues on May 17, 1941. Its wing floatation bags have been
deployed, keeping the aircraft buoyant for longer. These were eventually removed the design to save weight.

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A Northrop N3P-B, 22 'GS-F', of No. 330 (Norwegian) Squadron based at
Akureyri, Iceland, in flight over the North Atlantic Ocean.

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The Pilot must be having a nap

 

[Snautzer01]

German Tank Overturned By Soviet Shells 1942 - WW2 Press Radio Photo | eBay

This is a silver gelatin photograph. It is unmounted.

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[Peter Gunn]

Christening of the Boeing 314 flying boat "California Clipper" of Pan American Airways (Pan Am) at Treasure Island, San
Francisco Bay, 25 April 1939.

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Would have loved to fly across the Pacific in one of those, first class of course.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Would have loved to fly across the Pacific in one of those, first class of course.

I have a feeling that in those days it was all one class anyway.

 

[Wurger]

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German Tank Overturned By Soviet Shells 1942 - WW2 Press Radio Photo | eBay

This is a silver gelatin photograph. It is unmounted.

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The Oz stuff sent to Russia mistakenly.

 

[syscom3]

On this day 75 years ago. April 26 1945.
Since the British freed Belsen concentration camp, everything possible has been done to make the children forget any horrors
they may have seen there. Most of these children had Jewish blood and many of their parents died in the camp. British soldiers
have given up their cigarette rations to the adults and their sweets ration to the children of Belsen camp. Toys have also been
requisitioned from nearby towns. Children playing on the swings at the Belsen concentration camp, Germany on April 26,
1945, which are erected by a R.E.M.E. detachment. A British soldier gives a helping hand.

 

[Peter Gunn]

I have a feeling that in those days it was all one class anyway.

Probably but there was a "Deluxe Compartment" towards the tail if I'm not mistaken, that's where I'd like to be.

 

[SaparotRob]

I need to be close to the can too.

 

[fannum]

The prototype A6M Zero fighter took its maiden flight at Kagamigahara airfield, Japan. Mitsubishi Kokuki K.K.
(Mitsubishi Aircraft Company) Chief Test Pilot Katsuzo Shima made the first flight of the prototype Mitsubishi
A6M1 Navy Type 0 fighter at the Kagamigahara air field (now, Gifu Airbase). Completed about ten days earlier,
at the Mitsubishi Aircraft Company factory at Nagoya on the island of Honshu, the prototype fighter had been
disassembled so that it could be transported by road approximately 22 miles (36 kilometers) to the airfield. B
eginning late in the afternoon with taxi tests and a brief "hop" to check control response, at 5:30 pm, Shima took off on what would be a successful test flight.

After the success of the A6M1's initial flight tests, a second prototype, c/n 202, was built and testing continued.
In September 1939 the Japanese Navy accepted the new fighter, the Rei Shiki Sento Ki, or "Rei-Sen," and it was
ordered into production with few changes.

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How about a date?

 

[fannum]

Where are the gun turrets gone ?

Silverplate modification, pioneered by 509th BG. Later often field retrofitted to many units for weight, speed, range and reduced crew advantages, with minimal risk from Japanese fighters.

 

[Frog]