The BBQ is an icon of game day parties and backyard shenanigans. Fewer are more hardcore than this grill made from the engine of a German Leopard 1 tank.
[Show as slideshow]
|
||||
|
The Air Force doesn’t screw around. OK, well sure most of the time it’s all Top Gun moments and officers screaming “Maverick!”, but they don’t like it when their stuff catches fire. To make sure that doesn’t happen, fires in hangars are quickly extinguished with foam dispensed from vents [...] Oh, you say there’s an apocalypse coming? No worries, I got this.
Last week we celebrated US Naval Aviation’s 100th birthday, and Monday we featured a neat pic of the ex-USS Enterprise (CV-6) steaming into 1945 New York City after WWII. Today thanks to a tip by Toasters & Hooniverse regular commenter Justin Eddings, we offer an entirely new twist on the theme. Behold this mind-bogglingly awesome 1/72 scale replica of the current USS Enterprise, CVN-65. Scratch built by madman Gabriel Suranyi, this work of art stands 16 feet long, 5 feet wide and 4 feet tall and represents 19 YEARS (as of 2007) of his hard work. It is so exact in fact, that a flat-top sailor would instantly recognize any of the close-up photos. Indeed, the replica represents the USS Enterprise along with the embarked Air-Wing 11 during the ships’ actual 1989 cruise. Continue reading Now That’s Incredible
In celebration of this weekend’s Fleet-week in San Francisco, we bring you this awesome old photo. 50 years ago, 1961, the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Saratoga (CV-60) and USS Independence (CV62) gathered to celebrate Naval Aviation’s 50th birthday. A neat look back 50 [...]
Hey, if Charles Lindbergh could cross the Atlantic in a primitive aircraft with no provision for forward vision, who’s to say you can’t cruise at Mach 3 without a windshield? Meet the Sukhoi T-4, simultaneously one of the most original, derivative, and bizarre Soviet X-planes. Continue reading It Worked For Lindbergh: The Blind Sukhoi T-4  Every pixel in this image is cooler than you. You know, because the edge of space is cold, and the friction of reentering the atmosphere causes a lot of heat. Get your minds out of the gutter, folks, and harken to the tale of the HL-10, a fantastic design from the best toyshop in all of America: the Northrop Corporation. |
 |
|||
|
Copyright © 2013 Atomic Toasters - All Rights Reserved
RSS |
||||
