USAS: Wildfires, Weather, Aviation, History 🇺🇲🌊さんのイラストまとめ

6/ Except at https://t.co/iAxyinu0bc↖️and https://t.co/E7XzEwmRqU↗️, I can't find good Yamato diagrams. But I've toured New Jersey, Olympia, Yorktown, Alabama, Hornet, Laffey, etc. Based on that and this ↙️Mogami diagram, I'll guess at what's where.

#lifestyle #1970s #Space #FutureTech #futureofwork Did anyone else growing up think we'd live in space in giant rotating space stations orbiting the earth like this in 2000 AD? It was so much more beautiful a vision than Death Star... :)

#avgeek #aviation #airplanes #HELLO! Saunders-Roe SR/45 Flying Boat is the largest all-metal flying boat ever built. 3 made. 1 flew in 1952. Flying boats could takeoff from any long calm body of water, but new passenger jets like the De Havilland Comet obsoleted them.

#Defense #Navy #ships #technology - Italy's Otobreda 127/64 Lightweight (LW) naval gun is a 5" bore 64 calibers, 32 RPM cannon with 4x14 round magazines. It fires up to 40 km / 25 miles with standard rounds or 120 km / 75 miles with laser-guided long-range VULCANO rounds.

@centerepublican @JudahBDavis @aniemyer @Rich_Ships @VGaglianiCaputo @templefugate @milmodelscene @militaryhistori 2/ Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama makes Independence-class↖️and Spearheads↗️. The Australian parent company rose to fame making commercial catamaran and trimaran hull forms for commercial transports. Note Spearhead-class' high-tech glass cockpits, stick controls, etc.↙️and plan↘️.

#Hurricane #HurricaneIan #HurricaneFiona #Hurricanes - We've actually had a mild hurricane season so far, but with Ian bearing down on Florida and Fiona in Canada, please remember the following preparation tips... 1/

5/ The 5"/38s were directed by a Mark 37 Gun Director (analogue computer). It was an analog computer with some remote control (but how much?). It still took 1,000 shots to down an enemy. https://t.co/LjqZnIuLYt TY @DesertStorm24ID!

HMS Prince of Wales was second of five British King George V-class battleships. 45,360 tons; 227m x 31.5m (745' x 103'); 110,000 shp. 10x14" guns in three turrets. A Japanese 88-plane group sank her and Repulse east of Singapore on December 10, 1941. #WW2 #ships #RoyalNavy

3/ #B36 specs: Crew: 13. 162'1" l x 230' w x 46' 9" h; 6 × Pratt & Whitney R-4360-53 Wasp engines, 3,800 hp each + 4 × GE J47 turbojets 5,200 lbf thrust. 435-mph max; 230-mph cruise; 3,985 mi combat range; 43,600' ceiling. 2x20 mm cannon tail turret. https://t.co/JiwAk9M94l

2/ The B-36's immense size is evident next to WW2's biggest bomber, the B-29. The cockpit is rather overwhelming. And look at some of these amazing plans/diagrams... There is so much great info at the Goleta Air and Space Museum: https://t.co/YeYFFeVcVw