Hi All: An F-16 Falcon loaded for the hunt captured from this unique angle with a strong telephoto and the perfect backdtop. Wayne
Hi All: An ancient SU-22 was screwing around with one of these earlier today. It shouldn't have. Meet the F/A-18 Hornet
Huge aside but last week I watched WW2 vintage footage of a Corsair with JATO/RATO bottles on the fuselage it was taking off from a carrier- Guessing perhaps they were trying to find a way to get more planes or more heavily loaded planes off those short carriers- to ground attack with more bombs rockets of just to get more planes in the air farther out to shoot down the Kamikaze Don't think they actually ever used the RATO bottles for REAL in WW2- It was shown on the part of the program when the joint chiefs were sweating the landing on mainland Japan Okinawa we had just taken 70000 casualities(I think it was 15,000-20000 deaths-4000-5000 sailors) 100,000 dead Japanese soldiers only 3000 surrendered and maybe as many civilian casualties(many many deaths-some suicides-but plenty of collateral damage too) Anyway that BS A-BOMB was not necessary-is just that-the Russians in Manchuria-very little effect on how hard the japanese would fight on the home islands They could retreat in manchuria-china- can't retreat on Home Islands If when we attacked the REAL" home islands-Okinawa was sorta a Home island-but not really we would have suffered at LEAST 250,000 casualties-at least 1/5 would be deaths and MILLIONS -of japanese would have died-mostly civilians Even when the japanese -emperior and leadership-decided to surrender-there was a coup-to try to prevent the recording of the Emperor's message to the japanese people The japanese-then and now- are BIG on suicide not unlike some of our current adversaries unfortunately they were much more adept and armed(actual nation fighting together) in a military sense-than the middle easterners-who in general don't get along with "other tribes religions" in the same region
Hi All: Wrong lens - 19 mm (28.5 mm) Prime when I needed the 60 mm (90 mm) - as usual. Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Flying back to its home at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Wayne
Hi All: What about the Carriers that took some of these planes into the teeth of the devil? Here is a panoramic shot I took of the majestic USS Midway in downtown San Diego with the #Samsung #GalaxyS8+ while in the 2018 #ElantraGT yesterday. Wayne
HI All: Some may have remember me posting this a few times. In an Audi A7 story in particular. Here is the guy behind the controls...
