Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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This photo comes from a 1947 issue of LIFE Magazine
Winston Churchill was overweight, a profuse smoker, had already suffered two heart attacks, so less than ideal health conditions for a man who flew all over the world. In wartime, a special one-man pressure chamber was built to protect his precious bulk on the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta.
Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was too dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. Much higher altitudes were necessary, however, because of weather and the enemy.
The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash-trays, telephone, and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere. While pressures within the chamber were kept at the equivalent of 5,000 feet, the prime ministerial figure could loll comfortably like an outsized pearl within a gigantic oyster shell.
Elroy Blue said:
Eric Mc said:
Place and date?
It looks like an Italian one.
Italy didn't have Jags. It looks like an Italian one.
It's a French one without engines. Happened a few years ago.
yes I know this is obviously not a French one as it had clearly been fitted with the laser rangefinder & marked target seeker (LRMTS).
tuffer said:
Not an unusual position for a Jaguar. Pretty sure they were made by land-rover, their off-road capabilities are second to none - "where we're going we don't need roads" https://youtu.be/z-uqMUA7U-k?t=106
Ayahuasca said:
Elroy Blue said:
Eric Mc said:
Place and date?
It looks like an Italian one.
Italy didn't have Jags. It looks like an Italian one.
It's a French one without engines. Happened a few years ago.
yes I know this is obviously not a French one as it had clearly been fitted with the laser rangefinder & marked target seeker (LRMTS).
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