Misc Images

[_AH_Lippy]

Olds be sure to tell Aniken I am proud of him, keep it up Young Man.  :happy-112:

[_AH_Archie]

_AH_Moby

See what happens to you when you dont fly enough with AH

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Do you think he keeps Jack's thumb drive in that bag?  :thinking-008:

DW

[_AH_Bear]

Circa approx 1925... the original Spitfire racers were on floats

The Supermarine S.4 was designed by R. J. Mitchell to compete in the 1925 Schneider Trophy race. Built by Supermarine at Woolston, the S.4 was primarily an all-wooden monoplane seaplane, although a mixed wood-metal construction fuselage was mated to an unbraced cantilever wing and monocoque fuselage, powered by a 680 hp (507 kW) Napier Lion VII engine. As an exceptionally "clean" monoplane seaplane, the S.4 design was in marked contrast to the biplane Supermarine Sea Lion flying boats which Mitchell had designed for previous Schneider Trophy races, which won in 1922 and came third behind the American Curtiss CR seaplanes in 1923

[_AH_Lippy]

Nice one Bear Tanks  :drinking-43:

[_AH_Autorotate]

a formation of the heavy hitters...

[_AH_Autorotate]

the shinny redbull P-38F making a lovely pass at the air races...

[_AH_Autorotate]

A burning U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider from Attack Squadron VA-55 "Torpcats" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9).
The pilot escaped from the plane, but left the engine running. An airman jumped into the cockpit and turned the engine off, but he suffered second degree burns.
:surprised-027:

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

From the angle it almost looks like the ship is ablaze, not the plane.

[_AH_Autorotate]

From the angle it almost looks like the ship is ablaze, not the plane.

propeller blast and wind blown fuel leaks are a bad thing...  :surprised-041:

[_AH_Autorotate]

The Battle of Ramree Island...




On 26 January in Operation Sankey, a Royal Marine force landed on the Cheduba, which lies to the south of Ramree, to find that it was not occupied by the Japanese. On Ramree the Japanese garrison put up tenacious resistance. The 36th Indian Infantry Brigade landed with RAF and Royal Marine units. When the Marines outflanked a Japanese stronghold the nine hundred defenders within it abandoned the base and marched to join a larger battalion of Japanese soldiers across the island. The route forced the Japanese to cross 16 kilometres of mangrove swamps and as they struggled through the thick forests the British forces encircled the area of the swampland. Trapped in deep mud-filled land, tropical diseases soon started afflicting the soldiers, as well as scorpions, tropical mosquitoes, and saltwater crocodiles.
A saltwater crocodile

Repeated calls by the British for the Japanese to surrender were ignored: the Marines holding the perimeter shot any Japanese attempting to escape, while within the swampland hundreds of soldiers died over the course of several days for lack of food or drinking water. Some, including naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright (who participated in the battle), claimed that the crocodiles attacked and ate numerous soldiers. Wright's description occurs in his 1962 book Wildlife Sketches Near and Far:

"That night [of the 19 February 1945] was the most horrible that any member of the M.L. [motor launch] crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left. . . . Of about one thousand Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive."

When the British eventually moved in on the swamp, they found that of the nine hundred troops that originally fled into the swamp, only around twenty seriously wounded and weakened Japanese soldiers were left. In all, about 500 Japanese soldiers escaped from Ramree despite the intense blockade instituted to stop them. If Wright's claim is true, however, the Ramree crocodile attacks would be the worst in recorded history. The British Burma Star Association seems to lend credence to the swamp attack stories but appears to draw a distinction between the 20 Japanese survivors of one attack and the 1,000 Japanese who were left to fend for themselves in the swamp. Furthermore there is no corroboration of the event by British military reports or by interviewed Japanese soldiers and local Burmese. These figures are disputed and the event has been described as an urban myth by British historian Frank McLynn, who opined that only a few wounded Japanese had been consumed, although he did admit that the saltwater crocodiles of the region were both "known man-eaters and opportunistic killers".

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

And???

[_AH_Lippy]

There is another recorded event involving man eaters of a magnitude rarely ever recorded. This event is well recorded by the survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) out of the some 900 men the went into the waters 317 survived. Now some died of exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning and what not so the number of men killed or eaten by sharks isnt very clear. But the fact still remains, I think this to be the biggest single event of the largest number of deaths by animal or fish that is recorded.
http://www.ussindianapolis.org/woody.htm

[_AH_Autorotate]

both of these events prove that animals are ungracious beasts that will have your leg off if you get to close and that vegetarians should abandon their ways.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Beef, it's what's fer dinner!