Vintage shots from days gone by!

They just unclassified the YF-12 a few days ago... pilotless drone the D-12 launched from the A-12... more here..
http://area51specialprojects.com/yf-12.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21 Drone info.

 

That's a 1956 Harley Davidson KHK with Buco saddle bags. Can't make the windshield except that it isn't a Harley Davidson brand for a K model, it's too wide.

 

If you click the "quote" tab at the bottom of the post you're referring to we will all know which one of the 26,xxx posts you're talkin about.

 

I saw her live at the First Atlanta Pop Festival. Nobody can sing like she could!

 

The D-21 drones were to fly over china after they shot down 5 or 6 U-2's based in Taiwan. One of them exploded I think..

Thanks for the links..good stuff.

 

Yes, that was very interesting, thanks for posting it.

 

just a shot of a couple of my cars from way back when

 

On a rod run last year through France, we stayed in an Airstream caravan park, for a couple of nights, high up in the mountains. Each one was themed, I stayed in the music one which had old record album covers (remember them?) as wall & ceiling decoration. The bar/clubhouse was a huge polished converted one under a canvas circus-style awning. I'd post pics but they're obviously new ones!

 

For something that was just de-classified very little has NOT been known about the entire aircraft/drone line for many years. Italeri released model kits of both the SR-71 and the A-12/YF-12/D-12 line.
I have a book released in the late 60s that has the (Still) accurate performance details of them as well.
Great security you guys have over there.

Doc.

 

Original Skunk works was located at Hollywood/Burbank airport.

 

How it used to be done ...

 

Da-YAM! That is one of the all time greatest Hot Rod related pictures, I have been looking for a poster of it since I first saw it when I was like 12.

Doc.

 

"Vintage" San Francisco.

 

Noticed that one was a right armed rate, very rare, can't read what it is

 

More old Misc. pics...
http://youtu.be/BwNrmYRiX_o

 

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Heck....of all the "powers" she listed on
her sign, she left out the most important
one of all...."Horsepower"!!!

Mart3406
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http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg

Link: A huge Pic. of the ruins of San Francisco Post 1906 quake.. not dial up friendly...
Apparently it was taken from a balloon tethered at the foot of Market Street.

 

X2, Doc!

What a classic shot. ONE PIC sums up the TWO REASONS young guys have always
wanted to build 'rods and customs: (1) build somethin' with your own hands and
brain that's faster and louder than stock, and (2) chicks love a guy, with a brain and
hands, who's faster and louder than stock!


'Rodders are just the modern-day version of the old explorers, soldiers-of-fortune,
big-game hunters, mountain men, test pilots, 49ers, wild-catters, war vets, heroes . . .
in short, the guys who ask, "What if?" then get dirty going and DOING it!


Win or lose, better to be gored to death than bored to death, right?

 

It's my wallpaper most of the time!

 

THANKS for posting it. It's one of THE classic shots on this great thread, man!

 

Hey Doc... I worked on a "top Secret" project while in the Military and we had to swear to secrecy and we were shadowed and monitored for this project... one day after working on this project... I sat down in front of the TV and watched a News Cast of our project including video footage of all the sensitive areas as well as a brief explanation of what each item did! WTF....!

Needless to say we were a bit miffed and brought this up the next day at the secret hanger and we were told to maintain SECRECY!

Yep... Military Intelligence...!

 

From National Geographic website:

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Area 51 Spy Plane, Intact​

Suspended upside down, a titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype is prepped for radar testing at Area 51 in the late 1950s. After a rash of declassifications, details of Cold War workings at the Nevada base, which to this day does not officially exist, are coming to light—including never before released images of an A-12 crash and its cover-up.​

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Remnants of a crashed A-12 spy plane—including two engines and the shattered rear fuselage—litter the ground near Wendover, Utah, in a 1963 picture recently declassified by the CIA and published here for the first time. Things went horribly wrong for test pilot Ken Collins (flying under his Area 51 code name Ken Colmar) when testing the plane's subsonic engines at low altitude. At 25,000 feet (7,620 meters), "the airplane pitched up and went up and got inverted and went into a flat incipient spin," Collins says in the new National Geographic Channel documentaryArea 51 Declassified. (The Channel is part-owned by the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.) From such a position, "you just can't recover. So I thought I’d better eject, so I ejected down, because I was upside down." U.S. officials later asked Collins to undergo hypnosis and treatments of sodium pentothal (a "truth drug") to be sure he relayed every detail of the incident truthfully and correctly.

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Upside Down at Area 51​

In an undated picture, a mock-up of the A-12 spy plane sits perched upside down on a testing pylon at Area 51—part of radar tests to reveal revealed how visible, or invisible, the design was to radar.
Area 51 staff had to regularly interrupt such tests and hurry prototypes into "hoot-and-scoot sheds"—lest they be detected by Soviet spy satellites. The Soviets unwittingly provided raw materials for the unprecedented plane. The A-12 was about 93 percent titanium, a material then unheard of for aircraft design. Most of the men who built the craft are still wondering today how that metal was secretly sourced from inside the U.S.S.R., according to the new documentary.

 

I like that motto in the air wing decal, last pic,, "In Thrust We Trust"
gotta love it,,,

 

Screw the plausible denial story, it's the finest ass in any car pix I've ever seen. It's in Websters under yummy. Car looks like junk so her boyfriend must have been better equipped! Gary

 

A California Blonde with just one X

 

Looks like BM.

 

Haha, been there.
No Australian soldiers are operating in this theater.............
To this day I have to maintain that.
Though my parents recorded a news report of MY Platoon de-planing from a US C-17 in that same place we never were.
Odd that.

I never knew what an anachronism in terms truly was until I joined the Army.

Doc.

 

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Hmmm??? Since the place you never
where, didn't exist, there couldn't have
been any maps or charts to that place, so
therefore, the C17 that did or didn't take
you there, must have been on a regularly
scheduled flight to some other place, that
did exist and got woefully off course and
lost and landed there by accident. Yeah,
that's the ticket! "Lost", "off course"
and "landed by accident"!!! But no
worries, Doc. Your secret's still safe with all
of us here on the HAMB - because neither the
HAMB, nor any of us, for that matter, officially
exist either! By the way - (and totally 'off the
record', for security reasons of course) - your
name is "Doc" isn't it? Hmm????

Mart3406
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