#b wing in flight

[nocternalrandomness]

Fairchild Air Force Base - 1984

[monkeyssalad-blog]

The Yellow Rose by Jeff Hooten Via Flickr: Part of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, the B-25 "Yellow Rose" recently returned to the air after a much needed engine change. According to the CAF's webpage, "Central Texas Wing volunteers spent hundreds of hours to remove the engine, prepare it for overhaul and then re-install the newly rebuilt engine." _DSC6542_HDR

[flojector]

shapes from b&m

[gremlins-hotel]

🗣️🎙️ FLAT FUCK FRIDAY!

[thegreatestheaver]

reblog to slap her bald head

[ghostwarriorrrr]

WING FLIGHT OF B-2 SPIRITS AND F-15C STRIKE EAGLE

[devileaterjaek]

[frostycatblr-fandom-files]

Scruffy: *Noticing Canvas has been really quiet for an hour following a routine armor clean* Hey, Vas?

Canvas: *Distractedly* Hm...?

Scruffy: *Now sitting next to him* You okay, little brother?

Canvas: Mhm. Just got something on my mind.

Scruffy: *Expecting it to be about Canvas' dead batchmates he honors on his armor* ... Yeah? What is it?

Canvas: Well, um... in a lot of holy artwork across the galaxy, they use white doves in their symbolism, right? White doves are often just a special type of, or a selectively bred, pigeon. White doves are just pigeons with better P.R. and marketing than their city-dwelling counterparts.

Canvas: And a lot of artwork of angelic figures I've looked at has the solid white wings. It's pretty and all, but... that's so boring at the same time. There's no diversity! I'm thinking it'd be a lot cooler to have artwork where the wings are barred, barless, checked or t-checked just like the other types of pigeons.

Scruffy:

Scruffy: *Getting up* Excuse me I think I have to go paint something now.

[historyofguns]

The article "Convair B-58 Hustler — The Strategic Bomber Built to End the World" by Will Dabbs, MD, published in "The Armory Life," discusses the history and technical characteristics of the Convair B-58 Hustler, a Cold War-era strategic bomber designed for high-altitude, high-speed missions. Initially intended to perform a singular mission focused on nuclear delivery, the B-58 was engineered for speed and operated at Mach 2 and 70,000 feet. Despite its advanced design, including features like a delta wing and the use of four General Electric J79 engines, the aircraft faced limitations, such as vulnerability to surface-to-air missiles and challenging flight characteristics. The article details several engineering challenges, such as crew safety at high speeds, and mentions its operational history, highlighting it was never used in combat and was phased out due to the evolving nature of aerial threats. The piece emphasizes the B-58's role in America's nuclear triad and its iconic status as a technological marvel of its time.

[cannibalpool]

wishing i had the power of flight because i want that pinpoint accuracy and dips and such you get like when you're watching cool drone footage.

[waspspots]

Insanely messy insanely quick sketch to get this idea out of my head the instant it formed to prevent it from killing me in 6 seconds

This looks way angstier than the idea I had in my head but I was rushing to get it out, while discussing possible feats and other future options for sideraes build, the wording of gift of the metallic dragon was the perfect catalyst for the image of siderae using this immense extension of his innate power to desperately protect one of the others, these glowing wings that have only ever appeared when he's been desperate to save someone as fast as possible. I'm SO sorry to my 7 beautiful followers for this word vomit + crusty ass drawing but I CANT contain the radioactive sludge this trans godzilla eel dad generates in my brain

[roboromantic]

me: I should choose something other than a bat as the base animal species for this assignment to design a creature, they're overdone and I'll just end up distracted bc they're my favorite animal

also me: eventually ends up giving the creature I'm working on bat wings and gets distracted anyway

[thorsenmark]

A Revisit to a Black and White Recipe Preset I Made About 12 Years Ago by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image not long after taking off out of Austin on a flight to San Jose for a trip that would eventually take me to Pinnacles National Park. This is an airplane window view, looking generally to the south, with the one of the airplane wings as we started to fly above some clouds. That was my thought on composing this image. As for the recipe preset, it was one that I came across and made while reading Jason Odell's book on Capture NX2. I experimented with a few things as I worked with the black and white settings I came across in the book. One of the things that I did on that recipe was to make the shadowed portions of the clouds darker, while the ones caught in sunlight much brighter. Another was working with the levels and curves to make adjustments to the individual red, green, and blue values. I am now working with DxO PhotoLab 6 and had to find equivalent ways to make that look. Still some to work on but a nice try again after so many years.

[chirrups]

A. Velociraptor (Velociraptor mongoliensis)

This larger ground-based form is built for running, leaping, and bullying one's way around in the early Hermitcraft season game, which makes it the perfect trifecta. With it's much smaller wings, Grian cannot fly but has the highest hand dexterity of all his forms, which really frees up the fingers for more chaos.

B. Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)

This flighted form is preferred for building throughout the Hermitcraft season. The strong grip-strength and bright eye-catching colors make it easy to weave around high-up builds and oblivious basemates. Tool use is a bit harder with wings but luckily macaws also have great dexterity with their feet as well, making hammering in planks upside down a hundred blocks up a breeze.

the first of my own art challenge for me called Pesky Bird by Pesky Bird that details the many bird-forms of a shapeshifting grian over series, seasons, and aus.

these first two are personal favorites, the fanon scarlet macaw grian and my own velociraptor grian

[gremlins-hotel]

From the notes of Capt. Alfred Jones: "Davie was a bus and the 'Flying Fortress' moniker seemed to pass her by, but it was a ship with a brave crew. The trudge of getting back to England from enemy territory is a story for another day. I miss her and sometimes I miss the boys we lost that day."

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B-17F "Dear Davie": *U.S. Army Model B-17F-65-BO Air Corps Serial No. 42-29670 Delivered Cheyenne 31/1/43; Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 15/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Dow Field 18/4/43. Assigned to the 333rd Bomb Squadron/94th Bomb Group [TS-L] "DEAR DAVIE" 22/4/43; Missing in Action near Hamburg 25/7/43 with Alfred "Comet" Jones, **Co-Pilot: Daryl "Speed" Reed, Navigator: Richard Reed, Bombardier: Charlie Marstaller; Radio Operator: Johnathan Graves, Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner: Clyde "Pepsi" Ray, Ball Turret Gunner: William Ortlieb, Waist Gunner: Leslie Lipsey, Waist Gunner: Paul Rapoport, Tail Gunner: Thomas Pugh (6 Killed in Action); "DEAR DAVIE" lost to flak/anti-aircraft fire, crashing near Uetersen, 15 miles NW of Hamburg, Germany.

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[nerd things & acknowledgements below cut]

Notes on the B-17F... The B-17F was an upgrade of the previous E model, with several notable changes: A one- or two-piece plexiglas nose cone, as opposed to the ten-paneled cone of previous versions. Reinforced landing gear allowed for a greater maximum payload, from 4,200 lb (1,900 kg) of ordnance to 8,000 lb (3,600 kg). Flight and combat range of the F model was improved by 900 mi (1,400 km) with the addition of nine self-sealing rubber fuel cells in the wing root, aka, "Tokyo tanks". The F model was generally characterized by being tail-heavy - which lead to part failure - and woefully undefended from the front; the early F models had no front-facing armament, leaving a 60° blind spot to the direct front of the aircraft - a flaw which was exploited by German pilots, who held air superiority. Later F models would see a list of possible available modifications (factory and field) such as inserting two .50 caliber machine guns into the nose cone to solve the blind spot. Other modifications to later F models were bulged cheek turrets, as opposed to the window-mounted guns of earlier iterations, and the available addition of the iconic "Bendix" chin turret. The chin turret is far more common on the subsequent G "gunship" variant. ("Dear Davie" is an early F model without the nose mount, bulged cheeks, or chin turret.)

*This model production block, serial no., and fate are borrowed from real-life B-17F #42-29670, "Thundermug." "Thundermug" was an aircraft that originally served in the 333rd Bomb Squadron/94th Bomb Group alongside my great-grandfather and his usual steed, "The Gremlins Hotel." It was transferred to the 544th BS/384th BG, at which point it went Missing in Action over Hamburg from flak/aa-fire; 8 of its crew became POWs while 2 were KIA. I have had the honor to speak to descendants of both of its crews and help them research "Thundermug"; I wish to voice a mere glimpse of their stories in a unique way.

**All names of Alfred's crew are either cobbled-together family names throughout our history here or entirely fictitious - though some were inspired by real people whom I grew up with stories of. All inspirations were individuals that lived good lives post-war.

[spearxwind]

Some of those dragons in your recent drawing don’t have any other posts in their tags, could you introduce a few if it’s not spoilery?

Yeah absolutely!! I'll talk about all of them >:)

Alex and C, you know em, both of em dragon arena gladiators that eventually fight to escape the crushingly oppressive conditions they found themselves in.

These planes are manned by Soleil (left), who flies an SU-30, and Gala + Reina (right) on an AWACS plane based on the saab Globaleye. Gala is a Human and Reina is a little dragon, either of them can pilot or handle the IFF system interchangeably, though usually Gala is the one who pilots.

Octane, you know him too, reventant died-but-not-really guy, a jetwing of considerable speed. He's a rly nice chill guy even if dying-but-not-really has made him exponentially more unhinged. Infamous in illegal racing. Used to be a part of Lexios' squadron. And on the right, his brother Jarek, infamous for other things. He's a bounty hunter who specializes in other dragons. Has little care for who hires him as long as he's getting paid.

Arcturus is one of the fastest dragons out there, and they are the interceptor for Lexios' squad. A whimsical guy, they just like to Go Really Fast but got roped into service along with Octane bc of their abilities.

Voltaire is the support attacker of the squad. He's a gruff older dragon with a lot of flight experience and a nasty EMP attack.

Lexios, my beloved, absolute showstopper whenever she appears. She's a jetwing based on the XB-70 Valkyrie, with a little bit from the B-52 Stratofortress. She's MEAN AS FUCK, completely unhinged, and super powerful to boot. She's the squad leader, and her squad is the preferred attack hammer of the Dragon Choir. Very probably a war criminal (god forbid women do anything).

Kelan here is the dragon prince of the region, but he genuinely doesnt care about it. He would much rather be flying around the cast and having fun with his friends than to sit at the council and think about war. His father's death left the Council pretty headless and Kelan's attitude and demeanor makes him disliked among them but deeply beloved by his people.

Razor is a one-winged dragon from the cliffsides and part of the raider force in the highlands where the story takes place. He lost one of his wings in the past, though he was never able to fly with them anyways. Outside of canon, Razor is one of my oldest dragon ocs and I wanted to breathe new life into him putting him in this world :) Also, he has a really thick australian accent. This fact is very important.

Rivier is a desert dragon that has also found herself in the highlands through Circumstances(tm). She's also part of the raider force, and has a human rider called Jem who she goes on missions with. She and Razor aren't related by blood but they have grown up together and consider each other siblings.