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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Tommy Gunship: 1921
![Washington, D.C. -- October 22, 1921. "Junkers-Larsen 'JL-12,' the dreadnaught of the air, arrived at Bolling Field yesterday after a 2½-hour flight from Long Island, New York. Designed principally for attack on enemy troops, it is equipped with 30 Thompson submachine guns and can discharge 3,000 bullets in four seconds. George Wise, machine gun expert, and Brooke Hyde-Pearson [1894-1924], pilot of the JL-12, preparing to demonstrate two of the machine guns." (Washington Post) 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.](https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-41556a1.preview.jpg "Tommy Gunship: 1921")
Washington, D.C. -- October 22, 1921. "Junkers-Larsen 'JL-12,' the dreadnaught of the air, arrived at Bolling Field yesterday after a 2½-hour flight from Long Island, New York. Designed principally for attack on enemy troops, it is equipped with 30 Thompson submachine guns and can discharge 3,000 bullets in four seconds. George Wise, machine gun expert, and Brooke Hyde-Pearson [1894-1924], pilot of the JL-12, preparing to demonstrate two of the machine guns." (Washington Post) 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
Tupolev Tu-2
In 1943 the Soviets resurrected the idea. Always the innovators ...
Where's that confounded beagle?
Snoopy, you still chasing the Red Baron?
Where's that confounded beagle?
Snoopy you still chasing the Red Baron?
Where's that confounded beagle?
Snoopy you still chasing the Red Baron?
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Grandpa
The grandfather of the Spectre Gunship (AC-130)
Spectre of the time
Junkers-Larsen JL-12; The Tommy Gun-Ship
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