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That Stormtrooper with the toothbrush was done by the amazing Waihey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8147452@N05/2804357862/
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You missed the lovely Darth Vera, Avi!
http://www.myspace.com/darthvera
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Some very Darth Vader-like helmet styles were used during the Iraq War in 2003 by the Fedayeen volunteers (the engraved text reads "Allah, Al Watan, the Ghatadz" - Allah, who made the world, be our guide)
This translation is very bad :(
What it says is: "Allah, Al-Watan, Al-Kaed" Which means: God,Country and Leader.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you.
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The Lego Watch for kids is buildable, waterproof and comes in many different styles. It comes for Star Wars fans, Lego City, Lego for girls and many other styles too.
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there is a certain famous pub near liverpool street in london which i thought ought to go on this list. it has a rather odd name: dirty dick's.
yes, really.
http://www.dirtydicks.co.uk/ (don't worry, this really is just the website for the pub)
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What a great article, Simon. I just have to find the one with 'Crap Beer'. You know that will draw in more people than it will repel!
Oh and Whiskey, as soup of the day. Must be in Scotland!
~Nick Burman
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There's a pub in Middlesbrough called the hairy lemon, that's pretty colourful !
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the bear and ragged staff is also the symbol of the entire Dudley lineage, which may be part of it also...
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What a great post, I really enjoyed it! :-) Dirty Dick's as Prince Igor mentioned is really quite a lovely pub! My local near work is called The Walrus & Carpenter which I like a lot, and we also have The Hung, Drawn & Quartered nearby - pretty much next to the Tower.
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Other common ones in the UK are The Star, The Green Man and The White Lion.
I grew up in a small village, with approx 30 houses, one church, and 4 pubs either in the village or nearby. Not a bad average! It is easy to see why the village pub was often the centre of village life - and indeed, most pubs were built in the immediate vicinity of the church. There was The County Members (in the village), The Royal Oak (Newinngreen), The Welcome Stranger (Court-At-Street), and the Shipbuilder's Arms (West Hythe). The latter was named when it was a port, although it is now come 2 miles from the sea. Sadly, a lot of English pubs have been either closed, or taken over by huge 'gastropub' chains, and the names changed from the historical ones to such stupidities as 'The Frog & Nightgown' and 'The Pitcher & Piano'
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Good 'un.
I've been intrigued, if mildly, by this for years. Started when in a novel the detective-hero pontificated on the subject, tracing many to religious themes: e.g. "The Goat and Compasses" did not refer to a sea-faring nanny but to the "God Encompasseth" sermon subject.
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how about the Famous Cock in Islington, London?
I will take a picture tomorrow, just have to cross the road :)
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The first Golden Fleece picture looks an awful lot like my local, hmmm...
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As the inn sign artist responsible for the Fox & Hounds (on the far left of the 'Sporting' three), its nice to see such interest in an otherwise waning tradition. I hadn't actually seen a photo of it in its place until now, so thanks for that!
I also have painted a Prince Albert from the same portrait as the one above, but using the whole image. I hand-paint everything and all my signs are unique, but some on this page are stock library images, digitally printed onto vinyl stickers and appearing on different signs for pubs with the same name.
I wouldn't be so bold as to advertise on this board but if you want to visit my website, Google my name!
Cheers, Nick Hallard
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Heavy, firm bars with wooden bar stools are not the only thing that defines a pub. But I don't think anywhere else in the world would have pub with such outrageous signs.
Nicolette
http://www.furnitureanddesignideas.com/
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The "Crap Beer, Bad Hospitality" etc one is in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltsthire.
B-o-A also has a good line in pubs with bad canal-related puns as names (may or may not be deliberate):
The Lock Inn (i.e. after-hours drinking session)
The Barge Inn (i.e. crash through the doors)
Bonus pun pub:
The Dandy Lion (picture of a swaggering lion in a waistcoat, top hat, etc)
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I've been in the bear & rugged staff, it's in Bristol. Fabulous place!
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It's really interesting, especially because I'm visiting England in 1 month.
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"Oh and Whiskey, as soup of the day. Must be in Scotland"
Whisky is spelt without an 'e' in Scotland.
Maybe a Scottish theme pub though :-)
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Love your photos of Englands pub signs. Great photography of a very interesting subject. Like the lighting and play on color.
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Wow, this is one of the most thorough explanations I've read on the history of the pub sign. Makes me admire even more the craftsmanship that I for one always thought was cool. Wish we had more chances to design and make signs like these..
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Wealdstone has "The Case is altered" - something of a mystery as the sign shows a pair of flamenco dancers.
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The scary thing of sciences with ladders is that I actualy understand parts of what is written
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Forget the RFID wallet, a cigarette case works just as well (unless you're carrying cash) and you can get one for half the price.
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The animated gifs are simply rubbish-- not funny, not clever-- just crude and childish.
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Great pictures! But how could you miss this one -
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/Freebies/NoseArt/santa-plane.jpg
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One of the "Tornado" jets is a MiG-29. Never mind, nice pictures :-)
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Don't forget Shamu...
http://tinyurl.com/lxr9r5
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Some of the art is wonderful but the advertisements are off putting. Is there any place the won't stick an ad?
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It is BVLGARI not BULGARI
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nevermind, you were right I was wrong. It actually is BULGARI with an U
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Gorgeous stuff! Is that a Mig? I thought it was an F-18? Still pretty.
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Hard to imagine the extra weight this adds to aircraft, not to mention extra drag as opposed to a polished aluminum skin. Extra weight + drag = higher fuel consumption = more $$$.
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That Astraeus plane was indeed painted for Iron Maiden, last year. It was co-piloted by singer Bruce Dickinson, who is a commercial pilot for Astraeus when not with Iron Maiden.
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On the subject of famous people on aircraft it's worth mentioning that the man on the tail of Alaska Airlines' regular planes is William Seward, who as Secretary of State arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
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One note on semantics: The paint scheme of any airliner (special or not) is known as "livery" -- more specifically, airlines have "liveries", and gthe airliners are painted in it. What you are showing are "Special" or "Commemorative" liveries.
Militaries have been doing this sort of thing for decades. The Canadian Forces, for example, have a long history of commemorative paint schemes, including several quite famous schemes for the CF-104 Starfighter (at least half a dozen different tiger-striped ones over the course of two decades, for example) and a quite spectacular blue, white and gold CF-18 scheme celebrating 100 years of flight in Canada.
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that is indeed a Mig-29 Germany acquired two squadrons of them when they reunited.
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Qoute GaryM: Hard to imagine the extra weight this adds to aircraft, not to mention extra drag as opposed to a polished aluminum skin. Extra weight + drag = higher fuel consumption = more $$$.
Not really, even the aircraft with a "polished aluminium skin" have several coats of paint (albeit clear paint) on them. It protects the metal against the weather and against UV-radiation.
Aircraft "paint" (it's more a kind of polyurethane coating)is very specialized, it's adapted to the kind of flights the aircraft is going to do. A short-haul aircraft will have a different paint than a long-haul intercontinental jet. Also a lot of airlines have their own mix of paint suited for their operation.
But in a way you are correct, an unpainted plane would be lighter and therefore cheaper to operate. But the aircraft will unprotected and will have a much, much shorter lifetime. And planes are quite expensive to replace ;)
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Very nice pictures!
Thanks for sharing ;)
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This guy catches every rare things come to chitose AP
http://www.lnet.ne.jp/~aaa/sub186.html
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after testing by german luftwaffe and other nato alliance partners the mig 29 jets were delivered to the polish air force in 2003
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Actually you are incorrect Nils, American Airlines does not use a clear coat paint. The surface is polished aluminum. The planes get polished at the Main Base Visit heavy checks with what looks like a large shoe polisher on the end of a weed eater. It saves an incredible amount of weight and wear is not much of a problem due to the oxidation of the aluminum. As far as drag is concerned, a well done paint job can actually reduce the drag slightly over polished aluminum because rivet heads and seams can get filled smooth (but I re-iterate that it must be a very good paint job). One of the dilemma's AA has is what to do with the composite 787.
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Does anyone know if these liveries are painted or are they done in a similar way to vehicle wraps? Since nobody is going to be that close, I can imagine the detail isn't important, but the cost of hand painting an area that large, versus printing on a decal and applying it, would be astronomical.
~Nick
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The "Mummy Plane" is Iron Maiden's jet from their "Somewhere Back In Time" Tour.
Otherwise known as Flight 666 and flown by Bruce Dickenson himself.
Shame on you! "Mummy Plane"... I mean, REALLY.
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Hello Kitty plane. Inside and out.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/1475944817_d200ffcaaa_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/1475944817_d200ffcaaa_o.jpg
Some heart plane :
http://www8.thomascook.info/tck/downloads/willybird_landung_fra_290306_3.jpg
And one more Mickey Mouse :
http://www.alaskasworld.com/newsroom/asnews/images/disney_hi.jpg
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Probably the same way the us flag on Saturn V was: a giant sticker - so yeah, probably vinyl and making sure there's no bubbles
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To add to the above, I can't see them hiring a bunch high rated artists to do some photorealistic jobs, so there's your answer.
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Hi everybody, For more details on German Wings Airlines like airlines information, history, destinations, fleets, Thomas Cook Airlines phone numbers, code share agreement and baggage information visit "Altiusdirectoy.com". This URL may be useful.
http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Travel/german-wings-airlines.php
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There can't be stickers on planes because the speeds are so high. Even normal paint would peel off a plane.
Does that mean that every one of those people had to be painted on, not decals?
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Eddie for ever Metal forever
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That weird coin is 1 Lats from Latvia (http://www.bank.lv/eng/main/all/lvnaud/coin/1lats/puce/).
"An owl fibula is featured in the centre of the coin, with the numeral 1 and the inscription LATS placed on the left and right side of it respectively".
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The Latvian Banks Collector coins are even more strange. Fully valid currency.
http://www.bank.lv/eng/main/all/lvnaud/jubmon/nmp/
Another wierd story is about the swedish artist who forged 9 pieces of swedish 10 kr coins and spred them into use. They are made out of 10.7 grams of 18 carat gold.
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/vissa-mynt-ar-guld-som-glimmar-1.608380
(sorry, it's swedish but you could try google translate - http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=sv&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fekonomi%2Fvissa-mynt-ar-guld-som-glimmar-1.608380&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0= )
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The camp chimney sweep is my favourite.
http://www.bank.lv/images/img_lb/naudas/images/lats/1_ls_skurstenslaukis_rev.gif
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Check out Vienna... took down their walls and built a beautiful ring road. Good thinking.
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http://www.desicolours.com/top-view-of-forts-in-maharashtra/17/06/2008
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@anonymous
a beautiful ring road????
how strange to call that beautiful
thank God for living in the Netherlands where we don't do that
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one of the most beautiful walled cities I've ever seen is Aigues-Mortes, partially because it never really outgrew it's walls, so it still has the "in-here vs out-there feeling"
there are also plenty of post-medieval dutch fortifications, known as the "waterlinie", such as Woerden, which was also a roman and medieval city with castles and all, only 20KM from Utrecht
and many more forts in that style, such as Bourtange (also one of the most beautiful places I've ever been)
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In Verona, Italy there are three walls, Roman, Middle Ages and Austrian-Hungarian.
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How could you overlook Mont St Michel? It's a walled city, still functional today (though its main business today is tourism, plus some income from the surrounding floodplain pasturage), between Normandy and Brittany. The first fortifications were built by William the Conqueror, and it was added onto bit by bit. It was a penal colony for a while, and a monastery for much longer. Today, it is an actual city -- there are people who live there full-time, though they must feel a bit odd with all the tourists tramping around all the time. Carcasonne is another noteworthy walled city, in the south of France, and people still live in it as well.
While the ancient fortifications of London are not easily visible (apart from the Tower, and some influence on the way roads sprang up), the fortifications of Paris are easier to find. Some sections of medieval wall still stand, and the major routes into the city proper are in the same positions as the ancient portals -- and indeed, are referred to as "portes" even when the ancient archway is no longer present (though in many cases the arch is still there, along with a good bit of wall).
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Calli Arcade - thank you, good point. We did however write about Mont St.Michel - see this DRB
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The The Walled City of Lahore reminds me of Labyrinth. Does anyone else see the connection?
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Another German city that still retains a good portion of its fortress wall is Rothenburg on der Tauber, also famous for the legendary Meistertrunk, a flagon of beer that, when drunk in one draught by one of the city fathers, saved the town during the Hundred Years War. The event is portrayed on a clock tower, reenacted every year, and numerous tourist trinkets celebrate it. Oh yeah; the town also hosts the original Kriskindlmarkt, or Christmas store, of Kathe Wolfahrt. The store is open year-round, except on Christmas.
Talk about a busy town!
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Actually the Maginot Line was 100% successful. The Germans never breached it. Unfortunately it did not extend past the Belgian border. That's not an indictment of fortifications. That's an indictment of stupid politics.
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I can't find the amazing Map of Utrecht from "Toonneel der Steden" on the source site you list.
Do you have a different source site?
I'm very interested in maps of that period.
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Also worth mentioning: The old city of Rhodes, see http://www.rhodes.gr/portal_gr/photos/images/air01_hires.jpg
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@Alex: 100% is definitely incorrect, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#German_invasion_in_World_War_II
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Gostei muito,achei fantastico pena que aqui no Brasil não tem arquitetura desse tipo.
Um Abraço
Patricio Antonio
patrcio-a@hotmail.com
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Another walled city is in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
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Honolulu is older than St Augustine. I suspect a number of US cities have been continually occupied since before Europeans showed up.
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Derry city in Ireland is worth a mention :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry
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I'm days late on this, but it's a shame that you didn't mention Nanjing, China. I don't know if this is true but their Ming dynasty city wall claims to be the longest ever built at over 33km. Whether or not that was true, the many hundreds of years of building & strengthening the wall and its implications during the Rape of Nanking make it rather significant. China also continues to spend a lot of money to keep it in good repair
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About the pictures of Naarden and Heusden (with the star fortifications), I'm pretty sure they were designed by Vauban. So if you wanna see more of them, look him up.
Vauban and some pictures
hereAnd to Alex Epstein, Rommel smashed right though the Maginot line, look it up.
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You forgot Québec, Canada
"Quebec City was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, and is the only remaining fortified city north of Mexico"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quebec_City_Wall.jpg
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Thessaloniki, Greece has some of the best surviving walls dating from Roman to Byzantine Empires.
Imagine a inverted C shaped wall going from ocean to ocean in Santa Barbara, California. Ringing the city in the mountains, in multiple layers as the city grew. The view from the fortifications down onto the Thermaic Gulf is pretty incredible.
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Pingyao (china) is also worth mentioning. Beautiful city which looks as old as her mighty city walls. Like nobody ever crossed the walls since they were constructed.
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Can you imagine how the builders felt when they got done building the wall and the king said, "Ya' know, I think we should build ANOTHER wall in front of the one you just built, so start that first thing in the morning." ahahhahhhhhaaaa
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What about Jerusalem? At least the Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/148
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_of_Jerusalem
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where is Istanbul?
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should check out Derry, Ireland
http://www.derryswalls.com/hist-walled-cities.html
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I've never understood stamp collecting. I'll admit some of them are very cool and I'm sure that it isn't easy to make but it just doesn't appeal to me. Different folks, different strokes.
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MOON NINJAS!@@!!!!@!$@!#!
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@Anonymous
"MOON NINJAS!@@!!!!@!$@!#!"
that looks more like Mars in the background to me....
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My dad has collected thousands of Soviet stamps throughout his youth. It is so exciting everytime to have a look at them. They are simply epic, especially the ones with the theme of space exploration and animals.
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I think we're one of the few countries in the world with such a wide range of accents, especially when relative to our size. We're also one of the few countries in the world that hates those to the north or south of us.
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I feel sorry for those old-time stewardesses. They had to spend their working lives in thick cigarette smoke.
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I certainly can't think of her as my mother... lol
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Those some really awful hats. Really, really hideous.
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I miss the old days. I hate the current PC environment-- it's like they give you the privilege of paying for the flight instead of appreciating your business. AND, I hate the PC no-smoking nazis that appear whenever they see something like this-- as if smoking was the worst thing in the today's world.
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The number 9 pictures are not stewardesses. There hostesses from expo 67 in montreal.
The logo gave it away...
Mike
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What about the connection of porn and stewardesses? The "literature" of this subject is really great. Check Flight 69, for example.
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7321905&style=ice
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So ... they issued Aeroflot stews with pistols?
Don't mess with them.
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I keep looking past the ladies to the airline seats of old, which seem so more more comfortable than today's!
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To the person who called me a Nazi; I am not a member of the Nationalist Socialist Party.
And I did not comment because of any "PC" tendencies; I spoke up because a friend of mine, a former stewardess, has suffered multiple lung problems and surgeries since her early retirement.
Cigarette smoke is poison and you cannot change that by telling lies about people's motives.
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Sorry, but there has never been a reliable study proving any link between secondhand smoke and health risks.
I'm not the individual who called the other one a Nazi, but I just thought I'd point that out.
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I agree she is unlike any mother I know of. those come hither eyebrows. Meow.
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@Tennessee: Show me someone with a smoker's afflictions who's never experienced first- or second-hand smoke, and I'll start to care about the lack of studies proving the harm of second-hand smoke.
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Remember... The next time you fly and have to deal with a sour-faced, post-menopausal,hag from hell... These are Them!!!
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What a plesant surprise to see an old photo of a Delta stewardess, in Part 4, that I nearly divorced my wife for. Should have....
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Ah, yes, the good old days. We should definitely bring that back. Luckily women are never, ever actually consumers of commercial flights! So we don't have to worry about the fact that they might want a flight attendant who would be attractive to them, or even might be uncomfortable that the staff's uniforms would be designed to make the women sex objects. Thumbs up for nostalgia!
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I had a wonderful affair with one of the stewardesses in the Delta photo.
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Modern Air Transport had once topless stewardesses. I saw a picture in 'Aviation Week and Space Technology'.
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must see, i love all 4 parts
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Those girls are not very attractive. It's the same way like wit Polish Miss World 1989 - I do not know, why she become miss:|
Look at
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Awesome pictures, stevards have indeed been beautiful throughout tens of years.
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Is Dark Roasted Blend code for Middle-Aged men?
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Ahh the good old days, sexy stewardesses, being able to smoke your head off in flight - and we call the modern day progress!!!
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It's for putting out oil well fires. There's a more bad-ass one out there that's mounted on a tank chassis.
Or maybe in this case it's used to de-ice planes.
It might also be a jet-engine snowblower. I've seen something similar used on the railroad.
that is a Klimov VK-1 out of a Mig 15 they are used to remove snow from runways. I have never seen them used for oil fires that is usually done with explosives. That thing would just feed a fire like crazy plus the exhaust out of it is hot enough to ignite the oil.
Can you fix the link to order the shark shirt? It's just a link to the image. Thanks!
Sorry to disappoint, but the smiley factory is another t-shirt. http://www.threadless.com/product/1943/Smiley_Factory.
The "Monstrous Machine Found Somewhere in Russia" is a de-icing machine. Definitely looks like a locally designed and manufactured machine... An old jet engine mounted on a truck. Oh wow. how loud would that be?
at the end of the Kuwait war there were a lot of methods tried to extinguish the oilwell fires set by the Iraqis as they fled. One thrown together by the russians was a tank with a couple of jet engines mounted on the turret. When the engines were up to speed and pointed at the burning oilwell, high pressure water was pumped in, in place of the afterburner. This sprayed extremely high pressure water onto the fire and just snuffed them out. It was fantastic to watch.
This truck looks like a cutdown version of the above.
Picture of the old jet engine used for 'defrosting' airplanes - http://www.airliners.net/photo/UTAir-Aviation/Tupolev-Tu-134A-3/1019076/L/&sid=5a256d810e4899417eb10f7f6200a871
Yeah, a de-icing machine. The enginge is a MiG-15 or MiG-17 radial compressor engine with just a lengthened jet, it's not an after burner. There's still a tank-truck needed for an hour of work.
Such machines have been used to remove ice especially from rails and railroad switches in the permafrost areas in siberia. But in some cases other eastern europe countries realized the same technical idea very fast. They had several of these machines in East Germany in the very hard winter of 79/80. My father did run such a thing as a flight ingeneer.
I've got that t-shirt, its awesome.
Made by the mountain www.themountain.com
The team with the jets on tank chassis was not Russian, but Hungarian, and it worked with high pressure fog:
"Some new methods were used. Early on, teams used liquid nitrogen to smother fires. A team from Hungary put two jet engines on top of a captured Iraqi tank and introduced water into the stream of gas the jets produced, Mr. Heischman said, blowing a high-velocity fog at the fires and 'essentially blowing them out.'" /NY Times Online/
here is a video of that tank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGDxglTVgA
seems to be quite effective.
With regards to the jet engine on the truck. It has a number of uses already mentioned. One that wasn't included is chemical/biological decontamination. Chemicals/liquids are injected into the stream to render chem/bio agents inert.
For those saying it can't be used to snuff out a fire, how do you extinguish a candle on a birthday cake? ;^) A fire can't burn unless it has the right concentration of oxygen...
Maybe it's a the leaf-blower-from-hell? My penny is on de-icing (melting)or better just removal of snow (just blowing it away and melt the rest).
If i remember correctly the devices for fighting oil-well fires have more thrust (more/bigger jet-engine) and are armoured against the heat of the fire, this thing will melt before it gets close enough (looking at the downward angle of the engine this makes sense).
The truck with the "backward" jet engine as a snout is a de-icing system. While the West worked on fluids the Soviets use old jet engine, whose exhaust was hot enough to melt the snow and ice and dry the surface of a plane's wings as well.
The "jet thing" is probably for removing snow from the runways. In England similar first generation jet engines were used for removing snow. Works quite well, but they are rather thirsty engines.
This is Kamaz with some sci-fi gun. Photo belongs to S.Bondarchuk. This is "Inhebited Island" director. I think upper part is used for shooting film.
NASCAR uses jet dryers to dry race track after rain .. here is a video of one that blew the asphalt apart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvEcebYWh8
Thank you guys for all the info about this "leaf-blower from hell" :)
will update soon
Search for "1. Gulf war" - "blow out burning spouter".
I think such machines was active there.
BR Mike
the heat gun truck is either an aircraft deicer, an engine-starting heater for older planes, or some sort of crazy experimental snowplow. most likely a deicer.
I'm in love with that lady bug.
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