Dope Shizzz (v. Aviation & Space)

[KrautFed]

Germany surrenders in WWI

[KrautFed]

sorry, but I'm about to shut down some video cards and RAM ...better upgrade before this thread gets BIGGER!

...a lot of these are from aircraft plants during the early 40's

...cant remember if these are reposts, but they're high res and of wind tunnel testing

[KrautFed]

Tuskegee Airmen in Italy.

Tuskegee Airmen OVER Italy.

Model planes in Union Station of Chicago... 1943

[KrautFed]

ZEPPLINS!!! (and other airships)

"Clement-Bayard dirigible in shed in France circa 1908."

pedal powered! 1908

"Walter Wellman's hydrogen dirigible America just before being abandoned by its crew near Bermuda, 1,370 miles into an attempt to cross the Atlantic from New Jersey. Its engines having failed, the America drifted out of sight, never to be seen again."

"A small powered blimp used in 1912 to demonstrate remote control of aircraft by wireless telegraphy. ("Professor Anthony has exhibited a method of airship control of his own by wireless. He and Leo Stephens recently gave an exhibition of starting, controlling, turning and stopping an airship by wireless which was quite a long distance from the station which controlled its action.")"

"Vicinity of Washington, D.C. Army balloon circa 1918-1921."

"The Navy airship ZR-1 (USS Shenandoah) under construction in 1922-23 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. The 680-foot, 36-ton zeppelin, the first rigid airship to use helium rather than hydrogen, broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 with a loss of 14 lives."

^ZR-1 again

^ZR-1 again again

^ZR-1 again again again

"Graf Zeppelin over the Tower of David, Jerusalem. April 11, 1931"

"German zeppelin LZ3 entering its shed on the Bodensee. 1908"

[Shawn M.]

Red X's..the whooole lot of 'em

[KrautFed]

"1912. "Army aviation, College Park. Tests of Curtiss plane for Army. "

"1912. "Navy aviation. Commodore J.C. Gillmore in Curtiss headless plane, dual control, at College Park Army flying field. Lieutenant Milling, right.""

"1917. "Langley, Samuel Pierpont. Secretary, Smithsonian Institute. Experimental tandem biplane on Potomac embodying Langley principles." "

submarine plane

submarine plane 1923

"January 19, 1925. Loening amphibian plane. Maj. Henry Clagett, Gen. William Mitchell, Grover Loening at Bolling Field"

"January 18, 1922. Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. "Naval Curtiss bombing plane at War College." "

^

May 8, 1925. Washington, D.C. " 'Yorktown.' Christening of Sikorsky plane." That's Igor Sikorsky himself third from the left in the Homburg (his personal trademark).

Smithsonian Institute museum circa 1921

^

"September 25, 1923. Brigadier General William Mitchell in Washington, D.C. An important figure in the development of military aviation, "Billy" Mitchell is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force. His criticism of Army and Navy leaders after the crash of the airship Shenandoah in 1925 led to a court-martial and subsequent resignation. When it came to clothes, cars and horses, he was a connoisseur of the good life."

"Feb. 20, 1925. Rep. P.B. O' Sullivan, Gen. Billy Mitchell and Maj. Henry B. Clagett with biplane ("Plover") at Bolling Field."

[KrautFed]

Quote, originally posted by Shawn M. »

Red X's..the whooole lot of 'em

Noooooooooooooo! I was afraid I'd eventuall hit linking problems. Can copy paste?

[jdubboost]

no pics for me.

for another dude from bama.

[Chutzler]

Quote, originally posted by Shawn M. »

Red X's..the whooole lot of 'em

Me too. I thought the sky was falling for a minute.

[ArtieLange]

Man, those space ones are ridiculous and fascinating...

[KrautFed]

OK, maybe these will show up.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com...o.jpg

[KrautFed]

This is a test... let me know if everyone can see this one...

Shot of damaged (then rigged repaired) fender of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover fender.

[Stroker Ace]

works for me

[Bolsen]

Quote, originally posted by LO-vw »

more space pics less planes

More WWII less space pics

[jdubboost]

Quote, originally posted by Stroker Ace »

works for me

Quote, originally posted by Bolsen »

More WWII less space pics

more of both.

[Malone]

Quote, originally posted by KrautFed »

Is the driver's chair busted too? Note the slant in the top bar. Not sure if that's part of design.

Most excellent thread.

[duke of chucchinchilla]

Quote, originally posted by jdubboost »

more of both.

more PSA flight attendants

[KrautFed]

Apollo 11

check the name tag

Buzz Aldrin

not in Kansas anymore ToTo!

"earthrise" from lunar orbit

Lunar Module seperated from Command Module

from Neil Armstrong's window during descent

"We're here!" .... first every human photograph from the surface of the moon, via Armstrong

Aldrin loses

Aldrin and a solar wind experiment

Aldrin and a cloth on a stick

the plaque

Aldrin: "pull my finger"

home is far far away

Aldrin doing all the work hahahahaha

Aldrin working again

Armstrong after hard days work

Aldrin after Armstrongs hard days work, his expression =

Lunar Module returning to Command Module

bye bye!

home stretch

yaay

who brought sunscreen?

Watergate jokes while astronauts are in quarantine chamber

Your jokes are funny Mr President!

NASA = NAZI ?

the end

Boys and girls, this concludes the history lesson for today. I hope everyone learned the moral that... Neil Armstrong didn't do **** !

[DonL]

Quote, originally posted by chucchinchilla »

more PSA flight attendants

More Heaven Airlines attendants, too. Damn, they're, er, I mean, she's stunning.

[KrautFed]

Apollo 12

liftoff was during a storm

lightning strikes the pad (and Saturn V which is out of frame)

view of Earth from Apollo 12 (note the Spacecraft-Lunar Module Adapter panel which can be seen tumbling away)

Shot of Lunar Module from Command Module

reverse angle, of Command Module from Lunar Module

Pete Conrad exits

Alan Bean makes it out

I'm sure the camera cost $200,000 but the tripod looks like $10 from Walmart (PS - the camera failed to work)

Bean with a project

Bean working

Conrad and flag

expirements

childs toy

lunar module

Conrad and lunar module

core sampler

Bean

haha

back aboard command module in orbit

near splashdown

quarantine

...and thats it for Apollo 12

[KrautFed]

I've hit the motherload of WWII photos... someone tell me if this works:

Paratrooper helmets left behind

[ArtieLange]

Works for me-

this thread is so money.

[KrautFed]

These come from a French website, so I'm using GOOGLE to translate. Unfortunately these are only offered in 500x350 size, or stupid ginormo 3500x..... I think thats a little too large to post. If anyone can think of some keywords to search, let me know... there are 13,000 images in the database

keyword search: americaine

"In the ruins before the Office of German investment, a group of soldiers of the U.S. infantry is grouped around HC Medley playing the accordion"

"German prisoners carrying their dead comrades in the cemetery of Bréhal under the supervision of American soldiers."

"French pose flowers on the bodies of American soldiers."

"A chaplain gave the American extreme unction to paratroopers killed in the area of Carentan. In the background, we see soldiers in a row and keep you in front of large graves."

"2 U.S. soldiers to fire cannon"

"American aviation unit at a ceremony in Normandy"

"U.S. draws a bulldozer loaded in the ruins of Carentan"

"American soldiers put a gun shells in artillery in action"

"U.S. soldiers escorting a column of German prisoners out of Cherbourg"

"Maintains between senior American and German (van Hennecke)."

"A U.S. soldier speaks with a German soldier during the surrender of the German army in Cherbourg."

"American photography - Liberation of Normandy: Moments of relaxation (column Normandy Memory)"

[BlackGTiTurbo]

Keeps getting better!

[BHB]

Quote, originally posted by KrautFed »

why do they quarantine them?

[Gern_Blanston]

Quote, originally posted by bhb399mm »

why do they quarantine them?

Didn't you ever see 'The Andromeda Strain'??

[dubfan]

The more of those WWII pics I see, the more I think Band of Brothers is the greatest war movie ever made.

[the4ork]

took that one at work

[WyMCoupe]

My photobucket account probably wont last too long with all of these here so get em while you can.


Modified by sausagemit at 5:09 PM 12-13-2008

[KrautFed]

Now thats what I'm talking about! I just got a 22" monitor this weekend, and those photos are HUGE!

Definitely dope!!!

[jdubboost]

those are badass.. but please re size them.

[WyMCoupe]

Awesome website: http://www.af.mil/weekinphotos/

[deziking]

FAWKING amazing pictures!!!

THis one is awesome!

[rlsib16]

amazing thread

[judoGTI]

The divers were all SEALs. The most bad ass group of SW there ever was...