Cars and planes

[L-188]

Slightly off topic.

69 Chrysler 300, 505ci, A727, 3.23 Sure Grip

My background is SP Artillery, so maybe a a tanker can answer this question. Why would you need a travel lock on a barrel that short?

[Steve Rice]

Slightly off topic.

69 Chrysler 300, 505ci, A727, 3.23 Sure Grip

My background is SP Artillery, so maybe a a tanker can answer this question. Why would you need a travel lock on a barrel that short?

To protect the elevating mechanism / gearing in the turret while the tank is bouncing around as it moves from place to place on roads and cross country. That would be when enemy contact is not expected, like in the rear areas.

[L-188]

Same reason as long tube Artillery. I figured with the length of the barrel there wouldn't be much travel at all. We moved a howitzer about 10 feet on a hard packed parking area and the tube wasn't in travel lock. An Ordinance CW4 happened to be walking by and delivered about as good a wire brushing to my rear end as I'd ever received. Suffice to say it never happened again.

[Duggy009]

A pilot and his Thunderbird next to a TF-102A.

[mike furline]

A pilot and his Thunderbird next to a TF-102A.

Convair TF-102A-5-CO Delta Dagger 54-1351, 1351 first flight 11/18/1955. USAF 4780th ADW. Converted to GTF-102A. Was preserved at Chanute AFB, IL. Now at Selfridge Military Air Museum, MI.

[Cubs2jets]

Its hard to see but, the bumper sticker on the T-bird says ''My other car is an ugly airplane".

C2j

[Airlift48]

My 66 Mustang and the C-54 "Spirit of Freedom"

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[Airlift48]

My 1943 Willys MB and the C-97 "Angel of Deliverance"

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[Airlift48]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqEgZiynXQ&t=12s

Farrah Fawcett, a C-97 and a Mercury Cougar

[Blackbirdfan]

The HABU and the M3. Both the best at what they were designed to do. (The E30 M3 is still the winningest touring car in history.)

[JohnB]

Great period shots of a 1955 T-Bird. No fender/cowl vent and no window vent.
I had almost forgotten about the TF-102, despite having seen many when I was a kid growing up on an ADC base.
IIRC. it was the last time a two seat version of a fighter was designated a "TF".... though some early documents called the F-15B the " TF-15".