USAS: hurricanes, airplanes, tanks, ships... 🇺🇲さんのイラストまとめ

1/ #shipsinpics #ships #USNavy #Philadelphia - Let's visit @USSOlympia, the world's oldest steel warship, Commodore George Dewey's flagship, and flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in the 1898 Spanish–American War. THREAD + VIRTUAL TOUR FOLLOWS...

Auschwitz - never forget the Holocaust.
Perhaps we Americans will one day fully come to terms with our two Holocausts... #Auschwitz #TrailOfTears #Slavery #Maps @LakotaMan1 https://t.co/OcGL7A9G19

@DeborahResists @drdsdd68882053 @cmclymer This map says plenty... I'd agree with both of you.

@VGaglianiCaputo @templefugate @RickOceanMusic @curlyboy1975 @clark_aviation @CalaisFrom @fran962zgz @centerepublican @deecanadian @JudahBDavis 2/ The project started with two abandoned 747-8is (originally for Russia's bankrupt Transaero Airlines) modernized to Air Force One VC-25B standards. 747-8i is short for 747-8 Intercontinental. Is VC in VC-25 short for VIP Cargo? Why "25" and not VC-747-8i?

@clark_aviation @Postmanden1 @AvHistoryOgre @RupakChatto @AviationHistGal @amtrackmacon3 @centerepublican @aniemyer @travelingmkter @AvgeekOne @JudahBDavis @jenny_travels @fran962zgz @deecanadian @curlyboy1975 @MartinKoenigsb2 @majestic_air @Korean_AvGeek @ROBERTO71133905 @CalaisFrom @VGaglianiCaputo @GRossSharp The hub I used the most was the International Terminal at JFK. Ironically, I never flew the B-747s of my two great hometown airlines: Eastern and Delta because they didn’t operate them when I was a kid and they didn’t use flights I flew later. 5/

@kadonkey @one0nine @centerepublican @JudahBDavis @RickOceanMusic @AvHistoryOgre @clark_aviation @09EA63 @militaryhistori @Robofemoid @majestic_air @Postmanden1 @CalaisFrom @Korean_AvGeek @Gamer_1745 @GRossSharp 3/ More #Midway #maps and #photos. ↖️map from https://t.co/IRH4Zvv3SV shows fuel tanks, radio station, command post, coastal guns, seaplane base, finger piers and combat damage. Note: no runways. ↗️Midway subs. Are they at the finger piers?↙️Modern map.↘️1941.

@kadonkey @Sylvia70485099 @clark_aviation @JPPFRUS @Korean_AvGeek @AvHistoryOgre @LatinMilitaryAv @Aviation_B91 @curlyboy1975 @templefugate @deecanadian @majestic_air @MartinKoenigsb2 @JudahBDavis @chicaran1 @GavicWayne @GRossSharp 4/ F-108 (planned): 2-crew, 2 × #GE J93-GE-3AR afterburning turbojet, 20,900 lbf thrust each dry, 29,300 lbf on afterburner; 1,150-mile radius; Mach 3+; 100-mile range missiles, 80,000’ ceiling, 3 air-to-air missiles in a flush internal weapons bay, look down/shoot down radar...

@kadonkey @Sylvia70485099 @clark_aviation @JPPFRUS @Korean_AvGeek @AvHistoryOgre @LatinMilitaryAv @Aviation_B91 @curlyboy1975 @templefugate @deecanadian @majestic_air @MartinKoenigsb2 @JudahBDavis @chicaran1 @GavicWayne @GRossSharp 3/ F-108 Rapier was huge. Its 89’ length x 22’ height x 57.5’ wingspan compare to a #WW2 B-17’s 74.3’ l x 19’ h x 103.75’ w. Though B-17’s wingspan was almost double, F-108 was 20% longer and 15% taller. Rapier’s max takeoff weight 102,533 lb was 55% greater and speed was ~7X!!!

@kadonkey @Sylvia70485099 @clark_aviation @JPPFRUS @Korean_AvGeek @AvHistoryOgre @LatinMilitaryAv @Aviation_B91 @curlyboy1975 @templefugate @deecanadian @majestic_air 2/ #USAF #USA's Program cancelled largely b/c of Soviet shift to ICBMs. This Mach 3+ aircraft would have potentially accompanied Mach 3+ North American B-70 bombers in their nuclear role. But it didn’t actually have the range to do so.

1/ #ColdWar #avgeeks #avgeek #planespotting The stunning 89' long North American XF-108 / F-108 Rapier supersonic interceptor was to intercept Soviet nuclear bombers. One wooden prototype built. 60+ years later, it looks modern and evokes the F-22. @kadonkey @Sylvia70485099