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a rare bomb , the 2000 lbs Mk-84 Air with the BSU-50/B fin assembly

Senator John Sidney McCain III -- 1936 - 2018 Senator McCain passed away today a national hero, treasure, and defender of our proud country. He will be missed. Our strength and pride as a nation go out to his family. Blue skies and tailwinds to your next adventure.

some more testing , USN Mk-83 Snakeye I and Mk-82 Snakeye I with thermal protection coating

Gloster Garrison B.I - 101 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1937 In 1932, the Air Ministry issued Specification B.9/32 for a twin-engined day bomber with a challenging demand for "higher performance than any preceding bomber aircraft" and, among others, the Gloster Aviation Company responded with a mid-wing cantilever monoplane featuring all-metal stressed-skin construction, retractable landing gear, flaps, a powered dorsal gun turret, a ventral bomb bay and variable-pitch propellers. Like most of the companies tendering to B.9/32, Gloster's design featured the politically-favoured Rolls-Royce Goshawk 'evaporative' (steam cooled) engine but by the end of 1933 Gloster could see that the Goshawk engine would seriously degrade flight performance due to the larger then expected size of the condensors required to turn the steam vapour back into liquid. Gloster's chief designer, Henry Folland, turned to his long-time friends at the Bristol Engine Company who were planning a new 14-cylinder twin-row sleeve valve radial engine as a development of their existing single-row Aquila engine by adding another row of cylinders and transforming it into the Bristol Taurus twin-row radial engine. With an anticipated power output of 1,000 hp and with very low weight, Folland quickly redesigned his bomber around two of the proposed Bristol Taurus engines and boldly reduced the crew from four to two by removing the defensive armanent and the bombardier's station. Folland briefed RAF and Air Ministry officials on his unarmed fast bomber and mainly due to the support of Edward Ellington, the Chief of the Air Staff, Folland was rewarded with a new Specification B.40/34 to cover his new design soon officially named as the Gloster Garrison. Ellington soon followed up this support with a production contract for 250 Gloster Garrison aircraft as part of 'Scheme F' an ambitious plan to increase the size of the Royal Air Force to 187 squadrons within three years to counter the threat from Hitler's Germany. Such was the dominance of "the bomber will always get through" strategy at the time that Ellington demanded five bomber squadrons for every two fighter squadrons and he saw that this unarmed fast bomber could play an important role in his expansion plans. With development of the airframe running slightly ahead of the Taurus engine, all Garrison prototypes were powered by two 840 hp Bristol Mercury VIII radial piston engines and these were good enough to demonstrate the aircraft's performance and handling and also that the design was a good bombing platform. With continued delays in the development of Taurus engine the first production aircraft retained the Bristol Mercury VIII engines and following the completion of handling trials, conducted at the Central Flying School at Upavon in Wiltshire, the Garrison B.I entered RAF squadron service with No.49 Squadron at Scampton in August 1937 and No.101 Squadron at Bircham Newton in October 1937.

USAF A-1H Skyraider, Vietnam 1967 (MontyCZ's old classic with new skin.)

check flight over San Antonio....

1989... agile and active NASA flight testing !

no worries...count this as bad luck...And forget. Fly again next mission. small s..t happens all the time... Ah... and next time use Crusader

Gloster Garrison B.II - 101 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1937

test marks, and the eternal ini dance

In the works...

testing some new weapons

guess you did a little research on steam bird recently... screen. all S-65 models gained Mk.1 BumpMap and Specular upgrade recently...

USAF B-57B Canberra's first Southeast Asia Camouflage paint scheme; 3-tone camo color over gray/natural metal.

Desert Fun and games.

Really have to scruff these up a bit. Looks too clean.

scramble! well, maybe just the bombers practice anyhow

Interesting beasty! I need more time to study this F-16-XL In the meantime, I will have to settle...poor me. And if things get boring... Or I can go OG, while below everything goes OMG! Ok, got a targ....HEY, WHAT THE HECK? Where did my target go?? Oh, you sneaky Hog, we had this under control! Sure ya did, pal! Sure ya did.

anybody got a good source on some demineralized water? cheap and in bulk?

All markings are currently painted on, I dont have enough information about serials unit codes etc to make up decals so I've just chosen a few pictures from the web for that individual aircraft. If anybody wants to make decal sets for them let me know.....