The amazing and cool photo thread

[GregTheStig]

^Suddenly, "hey don't fall!" *push*

That's a WWII plane under there, possibly Japanese

 

[PeterJB]

Looks like a Zero to me.

 

[Peter.]

What is the significance of this picture?

 

[nobuffalo]

F1 drivers? Sleeping on the floor and sharing beds in some hall? Looks like a fun time.

I'd say the significance is you probably wouldn't see something of the sort nowadays.

 

[Techy]

What is the significance of this picture?

I'm wondering the same thing :S

 

[Liquid]

I only recognise Patrese and Lauda. Could be Prost centre middle.

 

[GregTheStig]

Looks like a Zero to me.

I think that's a safe bet. http://www.aviation-history.com/mitsubishi/a6m3va.jpg

Still kinda hard to tell with how torn up it is.

 

[Patrick]

I only recognise Patrese and Lauda. Could be Prost centre middle.

Sure looks like Prost.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

Looks like a Zero to me.

The flickr description is 'three-seat Japanese float plane', but the aircraft outline isn't clear enough to judge with 100% certainty. Looks more like a Aichi D or E from what I can C (eh, eh!).

Photos of submerged aircraft wrecks amaze me. To think that there are thousands of these unmarked graves in seas and oceans all over the world is chilling but fascinating.

 

[GregTheStig]

The flickr description is 'three-seat Japanese float plane', but the aircraft outline isn't clear enough to judge with 100% certainty. Looks more like a Aichi D or E from what I can C (eh, eh!).

Photos of submerged aircraft wrecks amaze me. To think that there are thousands of these unmarked graves in seas and oceans all over the world is chilling but fascinating.

This 👍 I've been to many air museums and seen lots of amazing planes, but the ones that fascinate me the most are the ones that they just pulled from the bottom of a lake or an ocean. It's cooler when they let you touch a piece of un-refurbished history, too.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 ft)

Mount Everest Summit and Northeast Ridge (29,029 ft) glowing in the sun.

 

[hellnback]

Actually by memory Everest is now considered 8850m or 29035ft.

Dependant on age or source of the information the original 8848m (29028ft) and outside range is 8852m (or about 29041ft). Hence the accepted middle ground.

Blame it on my parents, I got sent to my grandma's 2-3 weeks during Xmas holidays every year. It was in the middle of nowhere and the only decent thing to read was about a dozen Guinness Book or Records... (yes, cover to cover every year... I got to know what records changed in the end!)

Yes sad I know.

Heck maybe I do go to too many quiz evenings...

 

[Solid Lifters]

A bunch of photos of a WWI trench recently found in Eastern France that held 21 dead German soldiers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

 

[BobK]

Looks like a Zero to me.

I think that's a safe bet. http://www.aviation-history.com/mitsubishi/a6m3va.jpg

Still kinda hard to tell with how torn up it is.

The wing shape is all wrong to be a Zero, though, and it looks to me like the plane has an inline engine. The wing shape suggests to me a TBF Avenger, but that had a radial engine too.

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

 

[CodeRedR51]

A bunch of photos of a WWI trench recently found in Eastern France that held 21 dead German soldiers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

That's really cool. Hopefully they preserve it.

 

[GregTheStig]

 

[Techy]

A bunch of photos of a WWI trench recently found in Eastern France that held 21 dead German soldiers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

That's amazing. Discovering things like this always fascinates me.

 

[Spacegoat]

A bunch of photos of a WWI trench recently found in Eastern France that held 21 dead German soldiers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

It's blows me away just how well preserved that trench is. Truly amazing.

 

[Horde_R35]

Very nice pic, but sad really...

 

[Leadfoot53]

I don't know if this counts as "Amazing and Cool" but these are a few photos I took that I really like:

 

[Beerz]

I don't know if this counts as "Amazing and Cool"

No, it doesn't.

 

[Neal]

No, it doesn't.

That's mean

The lightbulb one is good and the others are pretty decent too.

 

[TheCracker]

What is the significance of this picture?

F1 drivers? Sleeping on the floor and sharing beds in some hall? Looks like a fun time.

I'd say the significance is you probably wouldn't see something of the sort nowadays.

It was a drivers strike. (clockwise from top left: Villeneuve, Prost, Giacomelli, Patrese and Lauda)


Good article on it.

 

[RocZX]

 

[Cowboys965]

I don't know if this counts as "Amazing and Cool" but these are a few photos I took that I really like:

I have a diecast of that beastly car right behind me now.

 

[GregTheStig]

Time-lapse shot of planes landing at night

Composite shot of hundreds of planes taking off from Hanover Airport.. or so they said

 

[Leadfoot53]

^ First shot is awesome! Second shot, not "clicking" with me so much to be honest

 

[grrlpurple]

Nice composite but they didn't all take off at Hannover...

I see a Cessna 172 there with a N584SP registration (from the USA), Air New Zealand Link, Virgin Express, Jet Blue, Southwest, Aloha and Diamond Katana N521L from the USA. None of those would have taken off from Hannover (just saying lol)

 

[Alex p.]

Composite shot of hundreds of planes taking off from Hanover Airport.. or so they said

Awesome! My home town yeah!