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白描baimiao, line drawing in traditional ink and brush style of chinese painting

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Did you know it’s the mark of a good cook to know how to use leftovers? During World War II, Americans were urged to make voluntary sacrifices to conserve vital commodities, including not wasting food. So reach into the fridge and get creative with that cranberry sauce! 

Poster: MO 2005.13.35.284

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Troops of 1 Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), 9th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, firing a captured Hotchkiss machine gun during street fighting in Caen, 10 July 1944. http://bit.ly/2DPTMdT

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Nice evening out with Lisa and Abbie, bumped into Emmerdale’s Adam Thomas, Top Lad 🙂👌🏻 (at intu Trafford Centre)

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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was used by the air forces of Germany as aircraft long-range Maritime reconnaissance and long-range bomber. Made a total of 276 pieces.

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The XF-84H Thunderscreech

First taking flight in 1955, The XF-84H was quite possibly the loudest aircraft ever built (rivaled only by the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bomber), earning the nickname “Thunderscreech” as well as the “Mighty Ear Banger”. On the ground “run ups”, the prototypes could reportedly be heard 25 miles (40 km) away.

Unlike standard propellers that turn at subsonic speeds, the outer 24–30 inches (61–76 cm) of the blades on the XF-84H’s propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards. The shock wave was actually powerful enough to knock a man down; an unfortunate crew chief who was inside a nearby C-47 was severely incapacitated during a 30-minute ground run. Coupled with the already considerable noise from the subsonic aspect of the propeller and the dual turbines, the aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews.

 In one report, a Republic engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H.

Nevertheless, the aircraft was abandoned due to teething aerodynamic deficiencies which led to prototype FS-059 being put on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, while prototype FS-060 presumably being scrapped.

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A P-51D N38227 barn find which flew with the Guatemalan Air Force, ca. 1972. More info link in comments.

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Reblog if you hear it in your head.

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Attack Helicopters from around the world

Agusta A129 Mangusta

Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow 

Bell AH-1 SuperCobra

Bell AH-1Z Venon

CAIC Z-10

Denel AH-2 Rooivalk

Eurocopter E665 Tiger

Kamov Ka-52 Alligator

Mil Mi-24P Hind

Mil Mi-28 “Havok”

Mil Mi-35M “Hind”

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Warhammer 40K Space Wolf Cosplay at GenCon!Self by Chanzlyn

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A and B turrets, HMS Hood 1940 HMS Hood’s forward 15" turrets, with a 4" gun’s crew under training in the foreground. The leading seaman, (noted) standing on the extreme left, behind the man with the 4" projectile, is leading seaman W Dowdell, who lost his life on 24 May 1941 along with 1414 other members of the ship’s company, there being just three survivors when the ship was sunk in action by the German battleship Bismarck. Colourised by Royston Leonard

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Carrier aircraft of US 3rd Fleet planes attacking battleship Haruna, Kure, Japan 28 Jul 1945; photo taken by aircraft from USS Intrepid.