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  1. CAC

    CAC Ace of Spades

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    Amazing shot! Low pass by Halifax II of 77 SQN, RAF Elvington.
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Good shot. Passes the shadow check.
     
  3. CAC

    CAC Ace of Spades

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    Its Friday morning here in Darwin Friyay!
    Must be time for postcards from Australia...
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    A Swamp Wallaby...
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    An Australian favourite the Superb Fairy Wren...
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    A bit of snow for these Rosellas...
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    The Mighty Magpie takes no sh%t off anyone...even raptors...
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    An Eastern bluebonnet...
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    A Rainbow bee-eater bests one of the worlds best predators the dragonfly...
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    A Malley Ringneck...
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    Aurora Australis...
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    Somewhere in the Great Barrier Reef...
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    A Kookaburra in flight...
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    A couple of Sulpher Crested Cockatoos...We just call them Cockies...
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    Australian Pidgeons...
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    A Tawny Frogmouth pretending to be a bit of tree...
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    A Numbat...
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    Roe Buck Bay in Broome (Top part of WA).
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    Australia and fences...Infact Australia has the World's longest fence - "Stretching over 5,000 kilometres from Queensland to South Australia, the dingo fence is designed to protect southeastern Australia's sheep farms from predatory dingoes."
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    CAC Ace of Spades

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    Testing for structural weekness…I think they found one.
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    I guess you steer with the engines.:eek:
     
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    I love all the bird and wildlife photos, they brighten my day.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    It's busting out OZ all over!

    The Bobtail BUFF is a new one for me. Very happy I didn't report to work that day.
     
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    CAC Ace of Spades

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    upload_2024-7-13_21-46-56.jpeg
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    That was the Pima facility IIRC. I-10 runs along it for a while.
     
  10. CAC

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    They should call the road B-17…
     
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    There were a hell of a lot of planes last time I was through there, but the '17s were all gone. You could get a Buff or a Hustler.
     
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    Morning all...Time for some Postcards from Australia...

    Rare White Kookaburra
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    A coulpe of Gang-gangs...
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    Aurora in Tasmania
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    Where you mostly see Echidnas...Walking across a road
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    A Snoozy Devil
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    Too Cute...
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    Whos that Marge? Dunno Beril...
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    The happiest animal in the world...a Quokka
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    A Pygmy Possum...Tiny critters
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    An imaginatively named Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
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    And a close rello the Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
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    Did you know that Budgies are Australian? Very popular pet in Britain
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    You bloody stay away Mate!
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    Stary stary night...
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    Melbourne city
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    Another animal you see regularly on the road - A Wedge tailed Eagle - Eating road kill.
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    Major Mitchell Cockatoo - Pink is in!
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    A stealthy water dragon
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    Finish with a pesky Drop Bear...
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    For CAC:
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    Look more realistic if the props were turning.
     
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    The frame speeds of modern cameras are quite impressive…but you already knew that…I think you’d fit in pretty quickly in Australia OP.
     
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    The mighty Herc…from the 50s! And designed by my (easily) favourite manufacturer…Lockheed (Martin)

    The US may have been behind in aircraft design at the outbreak of WW2…But today no one surpasses them.
     
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    That’s an interesting camo pattern. I only ever flew on one and of course sat along the bulkhead. Going from Norfolk to Guantanamo Bay Cuba. It was smooth flying, naturally. I think one even flew off the carrier Forrestal in 1963.
     
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    I bought a Mamiya 645 1000s camera as soon as I got to Japan in '83. 1/1000th second shutter speed. I could stop time with that sucker. Bought a telephoto lens so long the tripod mount was on the lens, not the camera. Loved that thing. But film was approaching its demise, so I haven't used it in a good long while.
     
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    A Japanese fighter make s a close run against B-29s
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    I wonder how that went?
     

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