Since I was a kid, I’ve always enjoyed seeing the 1,200 square-foot O layout at Oglebay Park, near Wheeling, West Virginia – the layout is in the building that serves as the entrance to Oglebay’s Good Zoo.
This is the model blast furnace on the layout:
It’s been years since I’ve been there- will have to make a return visit soon.
And here’s the paddle wheeler, guided through real water by magnest underneath:
And here’s a B&O Alco:
Original 1945 ad for Wright Aircraft Engines, featuring the record-breaking nonstop flight from Seattle to Washington, DC by a Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter powered by Cyclone 18 engines. The XC-97 used on this flight carried 20,000lbs of cargo on the six-hour mission.
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“Under Control – With Curtis Universal Joints!” Original 1945-vintage ad for the Curtiss Universal Joint Company of Springfield Mass., featuring a diving Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter.
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Other Lockheed Lightning pages:
Original 1945 ad for the National Tube Company, which produced seamless steel tubes used in the crash skids of the P-47 Thunderbolt – depicted is a “Jug” making a forced landing.
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Original 1943 ad for the Vega Ventura patrol bomber – the PV-1 Ventura was developed from the L-18 Lodestar transport, and was bought by the US Navy, British, and the USAAF as the B-34 Lexington.
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Other Lockheed patrol aircraft:
1945 original ad for Chandler-Evans, featuring the Douglas A-26 Invader. Proclaimed a “Sextuple Threat” the Invader was noted as being capable of serving as a bomber, torpedo bomber, fighter, destroyer, strafer, and attacker. The A-26 did spawn a night fighter prototype, but this did not enter service. Would look great framed!
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Other Douglas Bombers:
original ad for Inco showing a B-29 Superfortress landing – International Nickel supplied nickel for the B-29’s brake drums. Would look great framed!
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Original early 1945 ad for Airex Manufacturing, which manufactured selector valves for use in the Grumman F6F Hellcat US Navy fighter. Would look great framed!
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Other Grumman Fighters:
While the T-34 series would become the predominant Soviet tanks of World War II, the KV series of heavy tanks, although less numerous, where no less impressive. The initial KV-1 model, although mounting the same 76mm main gun as the early T-34s, was much more heavily armored, and was a tough target even for the vaunted German 88mm. The KV-2 “Dreadnought” assault tank was a more heavily armed model with a 152mm howitzer in an enlarged turret.
Fighting Vehicle patent plans pdf download
Japan’s first post-WWI battleships, the Nagatos were the the first ships in any Navy to be armed with 16-inch guns. Whereas all previous post-Dreadnought Japanesecapital ships had either been built overseas or with foreign assistance of some degree, the Nagatos were purely domestic products. Reaching over 26 knots on trails, they were the fastest battleships of the day.
The mid-1930s saw both Nagatos undergo a thorough rebuilding; the stacks were combined to a single unit, and “pagoda” masts appeared. protection was greatly enhanced in most respects, but this could only be achieved at the cost of increased displacement. New powerplants helped to compensate for this, but this only kept the speed at previous levels.