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RAF Eye in 1945

RAF Eye is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 11 miles NE of Stowmarket in Suffolk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Eye





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RAF Glatton in 1945

Royal Air Force Station Glatton or more simply RAF Glatton is a former Royal Air Force station located 10 miles north of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Glatton





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RAF Molesworth in 1945

Royal Air Force Station Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history dating back to 1917.

Its runway and flight line facilities were closed in 1973 and demolished. New facilities were constructed to support ground-launched cruise missile operations in the early 1980s. It is now a non-flying facility under the control of the United States Air Force (USAF), and is one of two Royal Air Force (RAF) stations in Cambridgeshire currently used by the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). Molesworth, RAF Alconbury and RAF Upwood were considered the "Tri-Base Area" due to their close geographic proximity and interdependency until RAF Upwood closed in late 2012.

RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth are the last Second World War era Eighth Air Force airfields in the United Kingdom that are still actively in use and controlled by the United States Air Force. It was from Molesworth on 4 July 1942 that the first USAAF Eighth Air Force mission was flown over Nazi-occupied territory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Molesworth





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RAF Alconbury in 1945

Royal Air Force Alconbury or RAF Alconbury is an active Royal Air Force station in the United Kingdom, located in Huntingdon, England. The airfield is adjacent to the Stukeleys Great and Little, Alconbury.

Opened in 1938, it is currently a non-flying facility under the control of the United States Air Force. It is one of three RAF stations in Cambridgeshire currently used by the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). Alconbury, along with RAF Molesworth and RAF Upwood are considered the "Tri-Base Area" due to their close geographic proximity, and interdependency. Except for a period of inactivity between 1945 and 1951, the station has been continuously in use.

RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth are the last Second World War-era Eighth Air Force bases in Britain that are still actively in use and controlled by the United States Air Force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Alconbury





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RAF Wyton in 1945

Royal Air Force Wyton or more simply RAF Wyton (IATA: QUY, ICAO: EGUY) is a Royal Air Force station near St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England.

In terms of organisation RAF Wyton was part of the combined station RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow, a merger of Wyton with two previously separate bases, RAF Brampton and RAF Henlow. Wyton is the largest of the three. It is home to Equipment Support (Air) and Corporate Technical Services. The airfield is used for flying training by 57(R) Squadron EFT, the University Air Squadrons of London and Cambridge and No. 5 Air Experience Flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Wyton





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RAF Bourn in 1945

Royal Air Force Station Bourn or more simply RAF Bourn was a Royal Air Force station located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bourn, Cambridgeshire and 6.9 miles (11.1 km) west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bourn





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RAF Kimbolton in 1945

RAF Kimbolton is a former Royal Air Force station located 8 miles (13 km) west of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Kimbolton





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RAF Graveley in 1945

RAF Graveley is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Huntingdon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Graveley





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RAF Warboys in 1945

RAF Warboys is a former Royal Air Force heavy bomber station, situated just outside the village of Warboys in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Warboys





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RAF Oakington in 1945

Royal Air Force station Oakington or more simply RAF Oakington is a Royal Air Force station located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England and 5.1 miles (8.2 km) north--west of Cambridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Oakington





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RAF Waterbeach in 1945

Royal Air Force Station Waterbeach or more simply RAF Waterbeach is a former Royal Air Force station located in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire which is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Cambridge. The site was then used by the Royal Engineers, part of the British Army, from 1966 to 2013, as Waterbeach Barracks.[1] The site is currently derelict, apart from officers' houses still in use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Waterbeach





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RAF Little Staughton in 1945

Royal Air Force Station Little Staughton or more simply RAF Little Staughton is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire and 4.2 miles (6.8 km) west of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.

Royal Air Force Station Little Staughton or more simply RAF Little Staughton is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire and 4.2 miles (6.8 km) west of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.





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RAF Polebrook (site of)

Royal Air Force Station Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940.

It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress) combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943.

This was also a Thor nuclear missile site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Polebrook





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Remains of Concentration Camp Lichterfelde in 1953

Concentration Camp Lichterfelde in Berlin was a sub-camp of Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen.

Site in German:
http://www.ikz-lichterfelde.de/





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Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-890 - Alaska Seafood

At Seattle Tacoma Internatio Airport.





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Paddle steamer Delta King in Sacramento and San Francisco

The Delta King is moored in Sacramento used as a hotel.
In San Francisco it's at the pier in 1938. Click thumbnail to see it.

Delta King is a 285-foot-long paddlewheel steamboat (87 m). Delta King is the sister ship to Delta Queen, both christened 20 May 1927, traveling between Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California on 10-hour trips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_King





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Niagara Falls in 1934

You see the Horseshoe Fall in full flow before the weir was made in 1942 to tame the flow.





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3 Boeing Dreamlifters at Boeing plant Charleston

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. It is an extensively modified Boeing 747-400 and is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter





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3 Boeing Dreamlifters at the Snohomish County Paine Field

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. It is an extensively modified Boeing 747-400 and is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter





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Practice nose of a Boeing plane

At the Snohomish County Paine Field / Boeing assembly plant.





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Boeing dreamlifter

At Taranto Grottaglie Airport, Boeing plant.

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. It is an extensively modified Boeing 747-400 and is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter





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Air Force One at McConnell Air Force Base

Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. In common parlance the term refers to those Air Force aircraft specifically designed, built, and used for the purpose of transporting the president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One





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Boeing Dreamlifter at McConnell AFB

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. It is an extensively modified Boeing 747-400 and is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter





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Boeing Dreamlifter with open tail

At McConnell AFB.

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter (formerly Large Cargo Freighter or LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft. Cargo is placed in the aircraft by the world's longest cargo loader. It is an extensively modified Boeing 747-400 and is used exclusively for transporting 787 aircraft parts to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter





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USS Forrestal (CV-59) awaiting being scrapped at Brownsville

In October 2013, it was announced Forrestal would be scrapped by All Star Metals in Brownsville, Texas at a cost of 1 cent. She left the Philadelphia Naval Yard via a team of tugboats at 5:00AM on 4 February 2014.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal_(CV-59)





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Houses of Grand designs Australia

Grand Designs Australia is an Australian spin-off of British TV series, Grand Designs. The show documents people who attempt to build a custom-designed house and the challenges they face. It is aired on the The LifeStyle Channel and is hosted by architect, Peter Maddison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Designs_Australia

In this file you can see where 45 of the 46 houses are built in the show. Many of them are hidden in history so you have to click on the thumpnail to see them.
Many of them are also shown in Street View and Bing Maps with a link in the thumpnail.





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Classic cars of Roger Baillon found in barns

60 classic cars, many rusting classic left languishing on a French farm for 50 years. Most of them are now up for auction.

They are presumed £12 Mio. ($17 Mio.) worth.





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Two Air France Airbus A380

At the gate of Paris CDG Airport.





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Air France Airbus A380

Under maintenance at Paris CDG Airport





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Wreck of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash

The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010 when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board. These included President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, former president Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Poland's deputy foreign minister, Polish government officials, 18 members of the Polish parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. They were en route from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre; the site is approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash





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Glastonbury Festival 2014 underway

The 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held between 25 to 29 June 2014.

Among bands and singers on stage were: Metallica, Dolly Parton, Manic Street Preachers, Bryan Ferry and Blondie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_2014





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Roof Sign

Shingleback Winery rooftop sign. It is in McLaren Vale, a famous wine making are in South Australia.





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Tinlins Winery rooftop signs

Birds eye view of Tinlins winery signs in McLaren Vale





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Two Zubr-class Hovercrafts in Guangzhou

The Zubr-class (Project 1232.2, NATO reporting name "Pomornik") is a class of air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC). This class of military hovercraft is, as of 2012, the world’s largest, with a standard full load displacement of 555 tons.[1][4] The hovercraft is designed to sealift amphibious assault units (such as marines and tanks) from equipped/non-equipped vessels to non-equipped shores, as well as transport and plant naval mines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubr-class_LCAC





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City of Adelaide Clipper


Constructed 1864 to carry passengers to Adelaide South Australia
23 return voyages
One of only 2 surviving composite clipper ships
Pinnacle of sailing ship design
Most important existing historic ship in Australia
Returned to Adelaide in February 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Adelaide_%281864%29





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Clipper City of Adelaide in Irvine

At the Scottish Maritime Museum.

The City of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on 7 May 1864. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick between 1923 and 1948 and, after decommissioning, was known as Carrick until 2001. At a conference convened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 2001, the decision was made to revert the ship's name to City of Adelaide, and the duke formally renamed her at a ceremony in 2013.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Adelaide_%281864%29

Without Timeslider you see it uncovered in 2005.





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Former US Bases and fortifications in Panama

This is a collection of locations of former US Bases in the Panama canal zone, some of them were built at the beginning of the Panama canal construction in 1904, then expanded during WWI, WWII, and Cold War era.





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Crassite of Flight 4U-9525

According to flightradar24.com and the films released I identified this ravine as crassite of the A320 on 24.3.2015





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Railroads of Denmark from 1847 to today

In this file you can see all the railroad lines the has been in Denmark and the lines of today, including the S-Train lines of Copenhagen. Also the railroad ferries are shown.
Many of the stations of the different lines are today used as private houses.

Three colours of icons are used:
Green: Stations of lines today.
Yellow: Station buildings of closed stations.
Red: Stations no longer there.





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Eye of Needle

Film locations of many scenes from the 1981 film Eye of the Needle starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. Some locations have not ever been identified on the Internet.





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Huge wrigting on a Highschool roof

On the roof of Brandberg Highschool North East of the Danish town Jelling it's written HVAD DROeMMER DU OM?
In English: What do you dream about?





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WrestleMania 31 in San Jose before start

WrestleMania 31 was the thirty-first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on March 29, 2015, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_31





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Fast food nation


Fast Food Nation, voilà un film qui devrait avoir une petite place chez vous ou tout du moins dans votre cerveau. Adapté d’un livre d’Eric Schlosser ce film présente au travers de quelques portraits croisés l’industrie de la restauration rapide. Rien à voir avec un Michael Moore ou autre[...]



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Camarade, fils du Vent,


Hier Soir en écoutant Place de la Toile affalée sur mon canapé, Luis de Miranda, dis : «Je suis assez banal et j'aimerai qu'il m'arrive des choses plus palpitantes chaque jour ..... Le temps c'est pas de l'argent! ...Tous va trop vite. ...» Une intro géniale pour une chanson intéressante,[...]



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Akira Toriyama Manga Legend and Creator of Dragon Ball Dies at 68

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SPY x FAMILY CODE: White Movie UK and Ireland Release Details

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Tales of the Tendo Family Volume 1

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Spy x Family CODE: White Movie Review

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Crunchyroll UK DVD and Blu-ray Release Schedule for May to August 2024

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Crunchyroll Announce 3 More Titles for 2024

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