Door at St Helen's Church, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, with Viking motifs on the reinforcing ironwork. The church was built around 1145 but the door may be 10th century - up to 200 years older. The door was in use until 1990, but was replaced and is now on display inside the church [736x981]3wk ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Just paid off my credit card. The final payment was 84p so I went into a branch and paid it in cash. Just because.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/CasualUK
Egypt, 1942, An M3 Grant crew are too busy working on the engine to pay attention to who's walking past.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/TankPorn
A group of Czech men who have just arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp, 1939.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Guess the cockpit. I posted this picture elsewhere, and somebody added the comment that it might be an interesting challenge for the people here.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/aviation
Elderly, petite German lady who was notorious back in the day for giving a crazy, wild ride to anybody who got inside her.6mo ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/planesgonewild
The Blohm & Voss Bv P.111, a fall-back proposal for the Bv 138 flying boat. I've developed the theory that B&V could see into the future, knew this subreddit would be a thing, and they're now basically just trolling us.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Imagine you're the pilot of a British-operated, Boeing 314 Clipper crossing the Atlantic in early-1942. Your passenger insists on having a go at the controls, but you can't really say no.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
I think paintjobs are borderline for this sub; more-so unofficial ones, but I'll chance it with the mods. What used to happen in the US Navy when a plane accidentaly landed on the wrong carrier.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
PBY Catalina on the Greenland ice-cap, 1943. Flown by Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen to rescue the crew of a crashed B-17. The first time a flying boat had been successfully belly-landed on ice. Balchen would later organize covert flights dropping supplies to the Norwegian Resistance.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
Whaling with a Ford Trimotor. Killing to many whales has made them hard to find. So whalers must resort to shooting the survivors with machine-guns from aircraft. Truly a different time. From the same Popular Science that has the Magnus-effect plane posted by u/BreadUntoast1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Some of the crew B-17 42-5729 (Piccadilly Commando) of the 306th Bomb Group celebrate their 25th mission, 1943. At the time, Piccadilly Commando was a slang term for the sex workers who could be found around the Piccadilly Circus area of London.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Only just noticed some P-51s have a panel on the nose with 32 holes in it. What's that for?1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
The downward-firing ejection seat on an early F-104 Starfighter. Later models had an upward-firing seat.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
An RAF 214 Squadron B-17 in night-bomber camouflage. Part of 100 Group that specialized in electronic warfare. Note the chin-mounted radar, and the tall antenna for the Airborne Cigar communications jammer.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
The dueling pistols used in the Barr-Hamilton duel in 1804, by the London makers Wogdon & Barton. The grandson of the original owner had one converted from a flintlock to a cap-lock for use in the Civil War so they're no longer identical. It's unknown which killed Alexander Hamilton. [1024x724]1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Tunnel of Eupalinos, 6th century BC, runs for 1km through Mount Kastro, Greece. One of the first tunnels dug simultaneously at both ends and meeting in the middle. It was in use as an aqueduct for around 1100 years [1024x684]2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
A DC10 airtanker dumps water and retardant on the Almeda Fire in southern Oregon, Sept 8 2020.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
WL419 and WA638 - Martin Baker's Gloster Meteor test aircraft, the last two in operational use. Between them they have carried out over 700 ejection-seat tests. Technically, they're the property of the UK government (hence the RAF markings) but Martin Baker is the sole user of them.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The University of Southampton's Windracers ULTRA, cargo UAV with a 100kg payload. It has just started trials in the UK, ferrying medical supplies from the mainland to the Isle of Wight.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The Queen, from a 70's, chess-for-kids book I was given when I was about 8. By French illustrator Jean-Paul Colbus4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/armoredwomen
Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil F-WOEX at the At the Musee de l'Aviation Saint Victoret in Bouches-du-Rhon, France. This is the helicopter that Didier Delsalle landed on the summit of Mount Everest in May 2005, a feat that has not been repeated.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Westland Lysander fitted with tanks and sprayers for poison gas. After the fall of France in 1940, the British planned to use chemical weapons as a last-ditch defence if Germany invaded the United Kingdom.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Douglas SBD Dauntless of Marine squadron VMB-2 has an encounter with a house at Rockwell Field, California. Early-1941.1yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
An RP63, 'Pinball' target aircraft, used for training bomber-gunners. The heavily-armoured aircraft was shot at by trainee gunners using special, frangible 30-cal rounds. Instruments on board could detect and count the number of hits. . .5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A British 17 pounder fitted with an engine. The limber would be attached to the gun's trails to make a 4-wheeled SPG. Designed by Nicholas Straussler, who also invented the floatation system for DD tanks.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/TankPorn
Since we're doing unpiloted aircraft, note the empty cockpit of this F6F-5K drone. During the Korean War, these became the first carrier-launched combat drones. Carrying a 2000lb bomb, they were flown into important targets under radio control4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Followup to the P-38 pod. The Zeppelin Cloud Car or Spahgondel. The airship flies hidden in cloud, directed by an observer/bomb-aimer in a pod thousands of feet below. One survives in the Imperial War Museum, London4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A sign in Paris, honouring an author of La Disparition (a famous, fifth-glyph-avoiding book) and many additional works,4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/AVoid5
An SA 315B Lama, piloted by Jean Boulet, descends after setting the helicopter altitude record on 21 June 1972. After the engine flamed-out at 12,442 meters (40,820 feet), the pilot had to aito-rotate the aircraft for the entire descent. The record still stands4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Kaman K-Max, with a 5500 lb wrecking ball as a slung load, being used to knock down a brick chimney. St. Louis, 20084yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A pumpkin bomb is loaded into a B-29. These were replicas of the Fat Man atomic bomb that were filled with 6300lb of conventional explosive; 49 were dropped on Japan in dress rehearsal missions for the nuclear attacks. They were found to be effective weapons in their own right.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
A Boeing 727-200 taking off with the assistance of JATO rockets. They were an emergency device, fitted in case of an engine failure during a hot-and-high takeoff. This allowed the aircraft to fly with more payload in these conditions.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley MK IV executing a low pass. Due to the high angle of incidence of the wings, this was how they normally flew.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Windracers Ultra Cargo UAV, now being trialed by the Royal Mail in the Orkney Islands. It carries 100kg of mail on a 70-mile round trip between the Orkney main island, and the island of North Ronaldsay.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The Bresler Steam Plane - a Travel Air 2000 biplane fitted with a steam engine. Successfully flew at Oakland airport in 1933. The engine was reportedly so quiet the pilot could shout to people on the ground while flying overhead.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The Greek destroyer Adrias enters Alexandria harbour, 6 December 1943. The ship had sailed 730 miles after its bow had been blown-off by a mine.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
I suppose the question to ask is, did they manage to get it down again?5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Aerospace engineer JoAnn Hardin Morgan, the only woman working in the Cape Canaveral Launch Control Centre during the Launch of Apollo 11, July 1969.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/ladyladyboners
A Bleriot 'Penguin' ground training aircraft, With chopped wings to stop it from accidentally taking off.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Vickers Wellington Mark VI. A high-altitude variant of the Wellington, fitted with a pressurized cockpit.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A British Mark V whose weight collapsed a bridge over the River Scheldt at Masnieres. The tank was used as a foundation for the replacement bridge.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
Original colour image. The battleship HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal, July 19446yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A German aircraft equipped for upside-down landings, Popular Mechanics, June 1914. Some early aviators experimenting with inverted flight were concerned it might be impossible to turn the plane upright again. The second set of wheels were a precaution, to make an inverted landing possible.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
English Electric Lightning G-AXEE in Kuwaiti markings at the 1969 Paris Air Show - never enuff rokkits.2yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The Royal Navy rescue tug HMS St. Issey, sunk exactly 76 years ago tonight by a U-boat, with the loss of all crew. One was my great-uncle, my grandfather's brother.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Supermarine Type 517 - basically a Supermarine Attacker fitted with swept wings, but retaining the Attacker's taildragger undercarriage.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Speedpak cargo pod, fitted to a Lockheed Constellation. Devised because the aircraft had plenty of power, but was limited by cargo volume. The pod provided 395 cu ft (11m3) and could carry a payload of 8200 lb (3719 kg). It was lowered to the ground for loading and unloading.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Universal Carrier and a mortar team of the Indian 6th Royal Frontier Force, Italy. 13 December 1943. Note the bow gun of the Carrier has been replaced with a captured MG42.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Westland Welkin fighter, built to intercept extremely high-altitude German bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Welkin is an old English word meaning the sky; the vault of heaven. or the abode of the Gods.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
RAF Alconbury, Cambridgeshire. A 500lb bomb detonated while being loaded onto a B-17, setting off the other bombs on the aircraft; 19 were killed and 21 injured. 27 May 1943.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Captured U-boat U-570 enters the harbour of Barrow in Furness, England, 3 October 1941. Renamed HMS *Graph^, she carried out three war-patrols with a Royal Navy crew and became the only U-boat to see combat service with both side in World War 2.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Shermans of the 7th Armoured Division pass a crash-landed Spitfire of RCAF 412 Squadron as they move up for an attack on Tilly-sur-Seulles; the town was obliterated in the heavy fighting that followed. 17 June 1944.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Fiat CR42 Falco biplane fighter fitted with a Daimler Benz DB601 engine (1941). Top speed 323 mph, nearly 60mph faster than a standard Faco. This aircraft remains the world's fastest biplane.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Consolidated PB2Y Coronado flying boat after losing a wing-float. 1943.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
2001, pre-movie merchandise. It's interesting the Royal Doulton designer made the Dursleys look a lot posher, and a lot nastier, than the version of them we got in the movies.4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/harrypotter
An early parasite-fighter experiment. A Sopwith Camel slung under His Majesties Airship R23., Howden Airship Station, 1918.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A Stug III, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, in service with the US 104th Division, 19456yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
British Lanchester 6x4 armoured cars camouflaged as elephants. Probably Malaya, c. 1941.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Consolidated R2Y, an attempt to make an airliner out of a B-24 c. 1944. Only one was built4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
British Air-Sea rescue barge at the Scottish Maritime Museum. Unmanned, unpowered craft that were permanently moored ofshore as refuges for downed aviators. They contained food, blankets, medical supplies, a radio and flares. Ironically, it seems the only aircrew saved by one of these was German.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Hughes HX-17 (1949) Cockpit from a Waco glider; wheels from a B-25, fuel tank from a B-29. Still holds the record for the largest rotor.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Examples of Marks and Spencer chocolate money. The inscription on real 2p coins changed from 'New Pence' to 'Two Pence' in 1982. The company making these has not updated it's machinery in 37 years.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/CasualUK
A Gloster Meteor of RAF 616 Squadron at Melsbroek, Belgium, 2 Feb 1945. The aircraft were there to protect the airfield from attack by German jets; they were painted white to avoid being mistaken for Me 262s and friendly fire. [5,500 × 3,839 pixels]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Screen Shot from Popular Science, May 1935, page 28. I've no idea what plane that is, but it seems they were hauling a car up to altitude for low-temp engine tests. All well and good, but you would've though there would be a problem in not controlling for lower air pressure.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Officers of the 11th Hussars rest under the shade of a beach umbrella during a patrol of the Egyptian/Libyan frontier, 26 July 1940. [800 × 567]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter fitted with bomb racks. In early 1940, the Defiant was trialed as a dive bomber. But accuracy was poor and the height needed for recovery excessive.3yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The 1923 Rohrbach Ro II flying boat carried masts and sails, so in the event of an engine failure and touchdown, it could be sailed back to safety.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Front view of Nellie, experimental, 130 ton, British underground tank. Intended to advance on enemy positions at 0.5 mph at the bottom of a trench that it itself was digging. July 19416yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
[Original colour image] The Avro Lancaster production line at Woodford, Cheshire, 1943 [2470×1772]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
American RAF pilots Andrew Mamedoff (right), Eugene Tobin (left) and Vernon Keough (the shortest pilot in the RAF), Church Fenton, Yorkshire, October 1940. Within 12 months, all three would be killed in action [2362x1772]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
The Blohm & Voss BV 155 high-altitude fighter, built to counter the B-29 Superfortress in case it was deployed in Europe. The large pipe carries exhaust gas to a turbo supercharger; the structures under the wings are engine radiators. One unrestored example is in storage at the NASM4yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Winston Churchill waits to watch the launch of a DH-82 Queen Bee - a radio-controlled, gunnery-target, drone version of the Tiger Moth, 6 June 1941 [2415 × 1772]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A battery of Bishop, self-propelled guns of 142nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery, at a captured German airfield in Sicily. Bishops had limited gun elevation so they were placed on earth ramps to increase elevation and range. 12 October 1943.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A detonating photo-flash bomb lights up the port of La Spezia in Italy. An attacking Lancasters is silhouetted by the bomb; 'A' points to a Littorio-class battleship at anchor. The three Littorio-class ships were based at La Spezia and were targeted by a series of air-attacks. 13-14 April 19435yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Ray Hannah, a founding member of the Red Arrows, cuts the grass in his Spitfire IX, MH434. July 19966yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/WWIIplanes
U-889 surrendering to the Royal Canadian Navy off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 13 May 1945.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Australian pilots of 453 Squadron help flatten a forward airstrip in Normandy using a locally acquired agricultural roller weighed down with two 500lb bombs. c. June-September 1944 [800 × 546]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Photograph of the crew of a German DFW C.V reconnaissance aircraft, taken using a camera attached to a wingtip, c. 1916-1918 [3059×2364]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
An F6F hellcat produces propeller-tip contrails while waiting to take off from the USS Yorktown, probably to strike the Marshall Islands, 20 November 1943 [5705 × 4492]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
British paratroops engaged in street fighting with the left-wing resistance movement, the Greek People's Liberation Army. Athens, December 1944.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
I give you Shippea Hill station in Cambridgeshire; according to Ordinance Survey, its elevation is 0.6 m above sea level.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/CasualUK
Never enuff dakka. Data and place unknown. From the man's uniform, it's possibly the Soviets making use of captured MG34s for AA.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A battery of 25 pounders of 67 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Italy, December 1944. The gun's wheels have been placed on stacks of ammunition boxes, for an extremely high angle of fire.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A turret-less Tiger 1, probably for driver-training, converted to run on wood-gas, generated by the gassifier unit on the rear deck. No date or location info [650x408].6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A member of 137th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, with a Sten gun, Belgium, 26 January 1944.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A P-51 of RAF 65 Squadron, photographed from a Beaufighter over the North Sea. They are heading to Norway to attack a German destroyer, damaged and under tow. This became the largest air battle fought over Norway, later called 'Black Friday' by the RAF because of the many aircraft lost. 9 Feb 1945.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Soldiers of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders man a blockhouse at Aix, France, 12 November 1939. The kilt was withdrawn as combat dress after the Dunkirk evacuation.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Tiger II of 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, disabled out when it was rammed by a Sherman of the Irish Guards during Operation Goodwood. The Tiger was then destroyed by a Sherman Firefly. 18 July 1944.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
1943, British engineers ingeniouly turn to alternate materials in response to the shortage of aircraft aluminum.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/fakehistoryporn
British officers of the 11th Hussars in the Egyptian desert with their armoured car, relax under a beach umbrella, July 19407yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
German soldiers entering an official, military brothel, Brest France, 1940. The building is a former Synagogue [800 × 550]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Photographs taken by Spanish police of Brigadier Dudley Clarke after his arrest on an espionage mission in Madrid, October 1941.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
A temporary wooden bridge built on the wreckage of the collapsed original, and the British tank whose weight seemingly collapsed it. River Scheldt at Masnieres, Northern France.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/TankPorn
After got out of the Dark Lording business, he tried to go in a completely new direction.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/harrypotter
Women rivet heaters, Puget Sound Navy Yard, 5 May 1919 [3000x2168]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
German officers board the destroyer HMS Cambletown on the morning after the commando raid on the docks at St Nazaire, France, during which the ship rammed the dry-dock gates. At noon, a hidden, 4-ton charge detonated, destroying the gates and the ship, killing 360 Germans; 28-03-1942 [800x534]6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Graffiti on one of the stone pillars of the Eiffel Bridge at Cubzac-les-Ponts in Gironde in south-west France5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/wwiipics
Personally, couldn’t care less about Roller Derby.... yet still Goals AF6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/transitiongoals
Realistic, yet also exceptionally awesome-looking, transition goals.6yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/transitiongoals
A British Matilda II, which had been captured and used by the Germans, is recaptured and it's crew taken prisoner by New Zealand troops. Lybian/Egyptian desert. 3 December 19417yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/CapturedWeapons
Men of the 2nd Sherwood Foresters fire a German MG42, Tunisia, 27 April 19437yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/CapturedWeapons
Would love a plant ID. I'm trying to encourage this one as it seems to be effective ground cover that doesn't mind shade.5yr ⋅ Madeline_Basset ⋅ r/GardeningUK
