Dannysoar has a wild-n-wooly batch of aerial oddities for your persual. I called it out on the mighty MeFi.
A day late, but lighter than air
Telegraph | News | Mighty Zeppelin returns to skies over London (Telegraph of 06-21)
A sight that once brought fear to the hearts of our grandparents and great-grandparents, a mighty Zeppelin, followed the route of the Thames into central London yesterday.
Zeppelin NT has a customer in the land of the rising sun. The vessel is scheduled to make a journey from Europe to Japan, apparently by air rather than shipping container. Gotta keep my eye on the ball, because it’s shameful that I missed this bolus.
54 Buick P-40 Special
As we drove south on Chuckanut Drive, overlooking the waters that hold the San Juans, we came across this lovely militarian art car, lableled in stencil on the trunk “54 Buick Special P-40.”
The car also featured what I’d have to describe as ‘tail art,‘ and a front-facing fifty-caliber machine gun in the back seat, not clearly visible in my picture. Also not visible in my pix are the detailed additional rivets added to the skin of the car to make it look more like a vintage warbird.
Oddly, a year ago, on Chuckanut, I also photographed an extreme militarian conversion of a Porsche 911 4×4, this one without apparent armament, although shrunken heads were noted.