| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-30 11:25:25 | River Patrol Boat PBR MARK II | WILLARD (v.o.)
"I was being ferried down the coast in a Navy PBR, a type of
plastic patrol boat, pretty common sight on the rivers. They
said it was a... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-30 09:28:38 | Multi-colored Fighters at Nellis AFB | Another photo here: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-29 19:18:21 | University of Central Florida Fountain | The fountain shut down: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-29 17:55:43 | Airplane - Steep Climb After Take Off | Same jet just taking off here:
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| Parabellum | 2006-04-27 19:38:21 | Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | More elegant than the Golden Gate bridge, and longer too!
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| Parabellum | 2006-04-27 16:17:09 | Symmetrical forest | What's that institutional looking place to the east? Sat dishes, helipads, etc.
There's an observatory or something just north of your second instance.
I don't think... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-26 16:17:21 | Solar Flares Near Chernobyl | Those are glass greenhouses. |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-24 16:43:57 | MD 600N at Los Alamitos | Again: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-24 16:42:24 | MD 600N at Los Alamitos | Same chopper? ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-24 16:27:15 | Airplane Landing at Long Beach | Same plane, a second earlier.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-23 18:07:53 | Colditz Castle | Great catch, Hink.
Here's my favorite Colditz story: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-23 13:50:58 | JANET Airlines | Google Maps now shows ALL the birds home to roost.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-16 08:46:38 | 20 C5s at Dover Air Force Base | Photos of a recent C5 crash: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-15 17:19:42 | Eddie Fuck | Hink, you've never visited New Jersey, I take it. { ;^) |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-12 18:04:16 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | Hold on, here's one with squared wingtips: http://avia.russian.ee/air/england/britten_islander.html
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| Parabellum | 2006-04-12 17:48:33 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/islander.html
The horizontal stabilizer looks... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-12 15:34:34 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | Helio Courier? |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-11 15:27:01 | Not-So-Smooth Sailing through the mussle racks | This map: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/5170/ is just 36 kilometers away. |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-10 18:43:57 | Not-So-Smooth Sailing through the mussle racks | Aquaculture cages of some sort, maybe? |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-10 18:42:29 | Half Of An F-16 In A Box On A Roof | You know, it sure looks like all four sides would slide straight down as a unit, especially in the westward view.
I suspect the half-a-plane is a radar reflection test target. If... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-08 16:44:34 | Lockheed S-3 Viking | You're right, it is a Viking.
After a bit of work I found another view of it here: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-07 20:24:31 | Loading a Blackhawk Into a C-17 | Of course, if you reverse the sequence, they're UNloading a helicopter... |
| Parabellum | 2006-04-01 14:26:40 | Coast Guard Helicopter in flight | Coast Guard helo?
http://images.google.com/images?q=coast+guard+helicopter&hl=en |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-29 16:38:18 | Madame Tussaud's NYC | Gotta give credit to Mrs. Parabellum on this one. We were having a conversation and she glanced at my screen and said "What's that hand there?"
I said "I dunno, 'Madame... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-28 16:41:03 | RAF Woodvale | Do I spy a Gloster Meteor on static display? |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-23 19:54:12 | VC-25A / 747-200B (Air Force One) | Nice one, Fitz. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-21 16:46:28 | Yankee Stadium | Even earlier - Tarp's still on the infield: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-21 16:43:42 | Yankee Stadium | Almost game time: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-21 15:29:19 | Giant Marshmallow Peep | I wondered what the heck that was! |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-19 18:38:37 | Omega Tanker B707 AAR | Well, the US military is farming lots of formerly military only stuff to private contractors. Look at Halliburton and KBR for example.
From ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-14 18:07:09 | New Found Kebira Crater Between Egypt and Libya | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17208 |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-14 18:00:39 | EC-130H Compass Call | It's a C-130 for sure, but as far as I know all the Compass Call variants are based at Davis-Monthan. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-13 15:03:49 | Star in a ring | Classic shape for a SAM site.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-12 19:04:14 | Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter prototype | Did someone say Jolly Green Giant?
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-12 18:37:36 | Paratrooper over Spain | That'd be a parasailer I'd bet. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne and other such paratroop outfits don't usually use pink chutes. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-12 15:54:35 | Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter prototype | A little better than the world's largest stucco snowman, eh? { ;^) |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-12 15:53:19 | McDonnell Douglas YC-15 | That's it! Thanks Hink. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-07 18:39:23 | Douglas A-4L Skyhawk | Yeah, the Blue Angels loved the Skyhawk. They were light and agile. Perfect for aerobatics. When they changed over to the big, heavy Phantom (by Navy edict) they weren't too happy.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-06 18:45:10 | Poor Photoshop Work on Roof of Building at Defense Depot Susquehanna, Pennsylvania (DDSP) | Similar artifact here:
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| Parabellum | 2006-03-06 17:43:35 | EC-135A 'Rivet Digger' | Yes, probably a 135. 137s were 707 based too, but it appears they were all VIP transport planes.
There are tons of variants, but NC-135A is certainly a good bet.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-05 20:19:00 | Airport wet spots | Yup, de-icing. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-05 11:45:47 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) | Gone in LiveLocal too. |
| Parabellum | 2006-03-01 16:36:23 | Chino Airport (CIC) | ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-28 18:29:18 | Naval Air Station Atlanta Airpark | Aha!
E-2 Hawkeye in the foreground, F-14 Tomcat middle, and an F-18 Hornet in the back. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-28 18:26:37 | OV-1 Mohawk on static display | OV-1 Mohawk.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/ov-1.htm
Son of an Army... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-28 18:24:20 | Beech 18 on static display | That's a Beech 18. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-28 16:51:26 | Naval Air Station Atlanta Airpark | Any idea why all those Navy planes are on display at an Air Force base?
My Uncle the former E-2 squadron commander will get a chuckle out of it I'm sure. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-27 16:46:02 | Aviation Heritage Park at Naval Air Station Oceana | Wow! |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-25 19:28:39 | Hawker Hunter and Lightning | The Hunter is Serial Number XF314. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-24 14:17:49 | Morrison's | On the site of Blackpool aiport, FKA RAF Squires Gate.
Also, the large sawtooth roofed building to the east is a formers Vickers aircraft factory.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-23 15:12:55 | Tractor ploughing a field | I'd guess they're harvesting rather than plowing. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-22 19:58:03 | RAF Filton | A sad shell of a Canberra: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-22 18:46:40 | RAF Molesworth cruise missile bunkers | Note the baseball field to the east. Methinks there may be a few Yanks based there. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-22 15:45:42 | Lincoln Air Guard Base | On static display:
RC-4C Phantom II
F-84F Thunderstreak
F-86L Sabre
T-33A
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| Parabellum | 2006-02-21 16:10:56 | Crop Circle | Going, going...
That combine's about to wipe that circle out. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-19 12:39:38 | B-47E, C-119L, and C-130A on static display | There's a Canberra (dark blue) just to the west of these planes. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-19 08:21:06 | F-4D Phantom II and RF-84F Thunderflash | I guess they travel in pairs.
http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/14637 |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-18 10:14:23 | Two CH-54 Sikorsky Skycrane helicopters | There's an F-86 down there too: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-14 16:37:04 | Gatwick Aviation Museum | This must be the only aviation museum in England that *doesn't* have a Vulcan! |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-12 17:45:07 | RAF Hawarden | I'm posting *any* site that was *ever* an RAF base as "RAF Whateversite". Many are no longer active RAF bases, of course.
It's an effort on my part to chronicle the many RAF bases in... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-12 13:03:15 | Mowing hay at the Luton airport | Formerly RAF Luton. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-11 11:26:01 | Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald | Photo update shows that they are indeed twin turboprops.
Also, Norwich Airport was formerly known as RAF Horsham St. Faith. ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-10 17:25:02 | RAF Hendon Royal Air Force Museum | That's a Hurricane on the left and a Spitfire on the right. |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-09 17:11:46 | Pig Farm | If you have a bunch of animals you want to keep separated, but you're a lazy farmer and you want to feed and water them from one *central* point, you might come up with a similar layout... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-06 19:49:46 | RAF Sculthorpe | Here's Bircham Newton: http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&t=k&ll=52.876279,0.64991&spn=0.02989,0.059481&t=k |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-06 19:43:37 | RAF Sculthorpe | I believe this is actually RAF Sculthorpe.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-05 17:01:52 | Pittsburgh Brewing Company | My brother from Pennsylvania brought me a six pack of Iron City Beer just in time for the Super Bowl!
Go Steelers! |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-05 13:56:31 | Perfectly round berm | Ordnance Survey map shows that as "Brockman's Bushes". |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-05 09:16:39 | Reservoir | UK Ordnance Survey maps have it marked "resr". I assume that means reservoir.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-04 13:33:13 | Former airfield full of cars | Possibly RAF Thurleigh? |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-04 10:12:09 | Multi-colored Fighters at Nellis AFB | Great photo here: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_2006240.asp |
| Parabellum | 2006-02-03 19:36:33 | RAF Cardington (closed) | The new high res images are great. Anybody have any idea what the blue and green rectangle to the east of the hangars is? |
| Parabellum | 2006-01-22 13:49:53 | MacDill Air Force Base | MacDill's getting a new tower: ... |
| Parabellum | 2006-01-13 18:48:07 | Weston Longville USAAF bomber base | More info: http://www.controltowers.co.uk/A/Attlebridge.htm |
| Parabellum | 2006-01-11 17:40:53 | USAAF Andrews Field | WWII aviation buffs like myself will love the "More Info" link. It's very well done.
... |
| Parabellum | 2006-01-04 19:00:11 | Water Tower Skeleton | I think that may be one of those natural gas storage tanks that rises and falls according to gas demand. |
| Parabellum | 2005-10-17 18:34:29 | Korean MIG-19s Coming out of mountainside? | And I give an extra bonus point for the grimly hilarious user name of 'dear_leader'.
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| Parabellum | 2005-09-11 13:13:14 | Cross Keys Airport | Oops. I must have pasted in the wrong URL. Thanks Fitz. |
| Parabellum | 2005-09-04 17:23:58 | Iraqi aircraft in the sand | If you look at the runways you can see the spots where we repaired JDAM craters we made earlier in the war.
First we busted it up so the Iraqi air force couldn't use it, then we fixed... |
| Parabellum | 2005-09-04 09:55:00 | Jackson Barracks Military Museum Airpark (Flooded) | Click "Hybrid" and you'll see the planes parked pre-Katrina. |
| Parabellum | 2005-08-13 17:28:08 | Wet paint...? | More here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.662086,-2.745724&spn=0.003799,0.008164&t=h&hl=en
It appears to be a... |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-28 16:44:42 | Pat's King of Steaks | Don't forget Geno's! You'll upset half of the Delaware Valley!
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| Parabellum | 2005-07-28 16:37:31 | Cabello port | The name of the town is "Don't move a hair?" Is there a story behind this? |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-26 16:55:14 | Artificial lakes | I don't think they're fields. They wouldn't be so far apart, or so black
My guess is that they're oil storage ponds of some sort. |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-19 17:55:26 | Chaco Canyon | More info and an Ikonos sat photo here: ... |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-17 15:46:27 | Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald | After looking at them with Google Earth I'm gonna say that they're probably NOT TR-1's.
Any ideas what type of plane they are? |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-10 14:15:14 | Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald | More info here: http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s23.html |
| Parabellum | 2005-07-10 13:53:14 | Weston Longville USAAF bomber base | More info here: http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/s19.html
And here: ... |
| Parabellum | 2005-06-26 17:49:37 | Söderfjärden meteorite crater | Great find, skithund. Gotta love those craters. |
