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What was that last picture you posted?
It looked like the photos a buddy of mine showed me once from his colonoscopy (like WHY would you want those!? I never understood).
Here it is, the Ilyusihn.
Called "The Flying Tank"; a kind of a precursor of the U.S. A-10 Warthog.
I had no idea though that it was the single-most produced aircraft in the history of aviation. Amazing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2
Locust is a common East Coast wood species, and was used traditionally for all the "snake-rail" fences you see commonly in photos of the Civil War era (see below).
It's also the species for the first honey-flow for beekeepers out this way. I don't know that it's commonly timbered commercially...
The armoring is impressive. Putting a subject in the cockpit during the testing (even WITH a helmet), makes you wonder a little. But who knows?
If I remember right that was a big feature of the fight-bomber that the Soviet Union fielded in WWII, it also was armored. I'd have to look up the...
I'm trying to get a little mini-rally together here in Maryland to benefit a family who lost their son as a USMC Sniper serving in Fallujah. Still a work in progress.
And also hoping my second of two daughters finally picks a college to go to before the deadline. ANOTHER work in progress.
Are...
A gopher snake, that's sounds right. Yeah. Very cool. Thanks!
And Brother, a garter snake sort of does look a lot like the coloring on that gopher snake, except greenish (and I've captured a few garter snakes out east here in my lifetime), but they SURE don't ever get that big.
You know...
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