Loening OL-8
July 06, 2009, 11:49pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
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Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
“A United States Navy Douglas R4D in the Arctic, 1951. The plane is a flying laboratory used by scientists of the U.S. Navy’s Arctic Science Research Group to conduct oceanographic ice soundings.”
July 06, 2009, 7:12pm
iheartmyart: George Shepherd, “Industry moves on Timken Roller Bearings” 1946
sunday fantasy #95
Reblogged from iheartmyart ♥.
July 06, 2009, 12:34am
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman: GOING TO THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 (1882)
sunday fantasy #91
Reblogged from Miasma Protege.
July 05, 2009, 5:12pm
“The Henschel Hs 129 was a World War II German ground attack aircraft. Its nickname, the Panzerknacker (tank cracker), is a deliberate pun - in German, it also means “safe cracker”.
One of the final variants was the B-3, in which a gigantic 75 mm (2.95 in) gun from the Panzer IV tank was installed. This meant that the aircraft was able to knock out any tank in the world, but the weight slowed the already poor performance of the plane to barely flyable.
This variant, along with the others, never really had a chance to prove themselves in any way - the aircraft were produced only in small numbers and deployed during a time when the Luftwaffe was unable to protect them from attack.”
July 04, 2009, 6:49pm
“A strike against enemy shipping by Beaufighters of Coastal Command”
July 04, 2009, 5:59pm
“Soviet airfield with fighter planes type il-2 (belarus summer 1944)”
The Ilyushin il-2 “Shturmovik” is the third most produced aircraft in history. In Soviet opinion it was the most decisive aircraft in the history of modern land warfare. Joseph Stalin paid the Il-2 a great tribute in his own inimitable manner: when a particular production factory fell behind on its deliveries, Stalin sent a cable to the factory manager, stating “They are as essential to the Red Army as air and bread.”
July 04, 2009, 3:12pm
“7th December 1941: A damaged B-17C Flying Fortress bomber sits on the tarmac near Hangar Number 5 at Hickam Field, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.”
July 04, 2009, 1:49pm
An Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello (bat), accompanied by Fiat CR.32 biplane fighters
July 04, 2009, 11:39am
![“circa 1942: Parachute bombs about to land and explode on a Japanese plane [Mitsubishi Ki-21?], camouflaged with branches…on the ground during a low-level bombing and strafing attack by the U.S. Army 5th Air Force on Old Namlea Airdrome, Boeroe Island, World War II..”](http://20.media.tumblr.com/NAJN8JTZ6pgj8dginwfscfzTo1_500.jpg)
“circa 1942: Parachute bombs about to land and explode on a Japanese plane [Mitsubishi Ki-21?], camouflaged with branches…on the ground during a low-level bombing and strafing attack by the U.S. Army 5th Air Force on Old Namlea Airdrome, Boeroe Island, World War II..”
July 04, 2009, 9:23am
