Some unusual photos

[GeoffQRF]

http://www.historyinorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WP_dailysanctuary-com_2015_03_6-plane-wrong-carrier.jpg

Apparently the Navy had a funny tradition – every time a plane would land on the wrong carrier, it would be covered with graffiti before being returned.

http://www.historyinorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/i.imgur_.com_0XILJTd.jpg

Do I need to make mule masks?

 

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[Paul]

Whew. When I saw this thread, I thought it might be spillover from an incident on another hobby website involving photos. Glad to see that’s not the case.

I really like the second pic, Geoff. Yes, we do need gas-masked mules.

Thanks for sharing.

Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!

[Rules Junkie Jim]

GeoffQRF wrote:

Apparently the Navy had a funny tradition – every time a plane would land on the wrong carrier, it would be covered with graffiti before being returned.

They’ve a similar tradition in Ryanair. When one of their planes lands at the wrong airport they plaster “Ryanair” on it.

[Phil Gray]

WW1 German horse with gas mask

Intriguing – the outrider has full face protection, but the horse has mouth/ nose protection only (maybe because a horse can be led?)

Compared to this rig for dogs:

US dog with gas mask

Sand, not oil, in the gears of the world.

[GeoffQRF]

Jim, that is really, really funny 😀

Came across this link as well, showing uses of swastikas before it was adopted by the Nazi party and took on a whole new meaning.

Before the Nazis hijacked it, the world used to love swasitkas, it was a symbol of luck

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[GeoffQRF]

Phil Gray wrote:

WW1 German horse with gas mask Intriguing – the outrider has full face protection, but the horse has mouth/ nose protection only (maybe because a horse can be led?) 

We sure that’s a gas mask, and not just a nose bag to prevent the horse from grazing or biting?

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[Etranger]

It’s a human gas mask, loosely applied to the mule. The eye pieces are a bit of a give away….

 

Here are some horse gas masks.

http://armedforcesmuseum.com/wwi-gas-mask-for-horses/

http://www.teachinghistory100.org/objects/about_the_object/gas_mask_for_a_horse

Here are some later (Cold war?) masks http://geyserofawesome.com/post/5244674218/horse-gas-masks-were-first-used-during-world-war

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[GeoffQRF]

The mule mask is, but I think not the photo that Phil put up (?)

 

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[Etranger]

Sorry Geoff, missed that. It still looks like the German masks I linked to though. There were seperate gas goggles too.

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