Dinosaur ...Fear and Fancy

Bone Crunching Make Believe

                                                                

Dragon

Is it OK to include dragons as dinosaurs?  This guy certainly looks the part and I don't smell kerosene on his breath.

                                              

Triceratops

Here's the whole ornery crew gathered for a drink after work at the old watering hole.  Everyone's belly aching about the new crew chief, Rex.

                                              

T. Rex

There's no talking to him when he gets this way.  His wife is no better.

Dinosaur and Super Crocodile

Real dinosaurs with real dinosaur issues.

 

                                                        

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Rex having a row of teeth growing along its spine.

Believe it or not.

                                                          

Allosaurus

Jurassic Park has this creature demonstrating cooperative social behavior and hunting in packs.

                                                                     

Rex

Were Woody Allen a flesh eating dinosaur.

                              

                             

PLACES TO BE

                                                                

 

 

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Places You'd Rather Be

    Where would you hide out from the world?

                                       

Emerald water paradise

Warm tropical breeze, billowing white clouds, sapphire sky, crystal clear water and no cell phone towers... your chance to become blissfully shipwrecked.

                          

Eilean Donan Castle near Dornie, Scotland

Bed and Breakfast with a great top floor view of sunsets over lake.

Did you need an elevator?

                                           

Great challenge for rock climbing or meditation.

                                             

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Bread and milk requires a thirty minute run by four wheel drive.

                                                  

Mingle with people of intrigue at a port far away from everyday

.

                                              

Curme Island, Desolation Sound

Seclusion in the middle of a British Columbia inlet.

                                                            

Machu Picchu 

Get lost high in the Andes Mountains of Peru wandering ancient ruins of the

Lost City of the Incas.

                                          

Slot Canyon, Utah

Richly colored crevices split the Earth's crust.

Not for the claustrophobic.

                                               

Caribbean Island

Stranded tourists leave message in sand:

Help!  Survivors out of rum.

                                            

Beethoven's Getaway

Love on the Rocks played softly.

                                                        

Zhangjiajie

Trees cling to impossible stone pillars.

Ride the Ferris Wheel above London fog.

 

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Russian Air Force

Historic Soviet Aircraft to modern day, cutting edge Avionics...

                                                                

MiG 25

There's snow, cold, freezing wind.  The work continues.  This image is by Ilya Stadnik and is posted at Russian Air Force.

                                                                

MiG 27

After three decades of service the MiG 27 remains an operational interceptor.  These MiGs are of the Sri Lanka Air Force.  This photo is posted at Russian Air Force and was taken by Alexander Golz.

                                                             

MiG 29

The USA bought 21 MiG 29s from Moldova to prevent them being purchased by Iran.  This photo is posted at Russian Air Force and photographed by Anton Pavlov.

                                                              

MiG 31

The MiG 31 replaced the MiG 25 as Russia's long-range interceptor.  It has a range of 720 kilometers / 447 miles fully armed and speeding over twice the speed of sound.  The photo by Sergey Zhiharev is posted at Russian Air Force.

                                                  An-124 with Su-27 escort

An-124 with Su-27 escort.

The Antonov An-124 is a strategic airlift cargo jet with a 25% greater payload capacity than the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.  It was photographed by Anton Pavlov and is posted at Russian Air Force.

                                            

Su-27

A sunset touchdown for the Su-27 as photographed by Nick Belyaev.  This image is one of many that can be viewed at Russian Air Force along with an extensive photo archive.

                                                                 

T-50

Sukhoi is developing this stealth jet as the Russian Air Force replacement for the MiG-29 and Su-27.  The image is by Max Bryansky and is part of the Russian Air Force photographic archive.

                                                           

Tu-95 and IL-78

An Il-78 provides midair refueling to a Cold War warrior, the Tupolev Tu-95.  This photo is by Evgeniy Kazennov and is among the archive photos of Russian Air Force.

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Winter Lights

The days short, nights are long.  It is often cold and inhospitable for both body and spirit.  Is it any wonder our most colorful and family-oriented holidays are celebrated in winter?

                                                              

A friendly beacon in ragged winter chill the lighthouse burns bright with warmth.

                                                  

Cross country skiers prefer the company of others to share experience.

                                                              

An isolated mountain top heavy with snow under winter sun.

                                                           

Mountain cabin with holiday lighting.

                                                        

Home for Christmas.

Magic of the season.

                                                       

 

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MiG 25

MiG 25 Foxbat

Mikoyan-Gurevich

                                         

MiG 25 interceptor with air-to-air missiles.

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Crew:                    1

Power:                   2 - Tumansky R-31 turbojet engines
                                    11,000 kg / 24,250 lb afterburning thrust

Max. Speed:         2,975 kph / 1,848 mph
Ceiling:                 24,385 m / 80,000 ft
Range:                  1,125 km / 700 miles
Climb:                   15,240 m / 50,000 ft per minute

Weight -
Empty:                  20,000 kg / 44,090 lb
Max. Take Off:     36,200 kg / 79,800 lb

Size -
Wingspan:            13.95 m / 45 ft 9 in
Wing Area:           56.83 sq m / 611.7 sq ft
Length:                 23.82 m / 78 ft 1.75 in

Armament:
                           4 - air-to-air missiles on external pylons
                                AA-6 Acrid air-to-air missiles, 4 typical
                                or
                               2 - AA-7 Apex and 2 - AA-8 Aphid
                                    air-to-air missiles

MiG 25 video

                                                

Similar MiG 31 shows air-to-air missile arrangement.

See comment by Alexandru Vlad at end of article.

                                           

MiG 25 training version with double cockpit.

At 78 feet / 24 meters even the single cockpit version

is longer than an 18 wheeled U.S. commercial truck.

                                                                

Your only escape from death is to fire a rocket powered chair

from a fast moving out of control jet.

                                                           

MiG 25 cockpit

                                                        

Wai Le Model illustrates MiG 25s rising to intercept enemy aircraft.

MiG 25 needs parachute assist to bring aircraft to a halt before runway ends.

Russian Air Force provides a great resource for aviation photos.

Related Topics:

Su 27

Vulcan

B-52 Stratofortress

B-58 Hustler

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F-86

F-86 Sabre

North American

F-86

Crew:                    1

Power:                   General Electric J47-GE-17B turbojet engine
                              3,402 kg / 7,500 lb afterburning thrust

Max. Speed:          1138 kph / 707 mph
Ceiling:                  16,640 m / 54,600 ft
Range:                   1,344 km / 835 miles
Climb:                    3,660 m / 12,000 ft per minute

Weight -
Empty:                  5,656 kg / 12,470 lb
Max. Take Off:     7,756 kg / 17,100 lb

Size -
Wingspan:            11.3 m / 37 ft 1 in
Wing Area:           26.76 sq m / 288 sq ft
Length:                 12.29 m / 40 ft 4 in
Height:                  4.57 m / 15 ft

Armament:
                           6 - 12.7 mm / 0.50 in M2 Browning Machine Guns (1,602 rounds total)
                           5,300 lb payload on 4 hardpoints -
                           often 2 - 1,000 lb bombs + 2 - 200 gallon Drop Tanks
                           or
                           24 - 70 mm / 2.75 in unguided Mighty Mouse high explosive rockets (F-86D)
                           in place of machine guns

F-86 versus MiG 15 video

                                                      

                                                                
A rare in flight side by side comparison of two legendary foes over MiG Alley during the Korean War taken by Richard Seaman.

                                                     

MiG Alley adversaries by Richard Seaman.

                                            

Korean War vintage F-86 cockpit.

                                             

Canopy-jettison and seat-ejection require pulling 

separate levers in the correct order.

                                               

F-86 ejection seat.

F-86 beneath the skin panels.

Related Topics:

F-89 Scorpion

F7U Cutlass

MiG 15

Tu-95 Bear

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