Friday, September 18, 2009

Red Phone Boxes

If someone around you will call them 'Victorian', don't you believe it!
Famous red boxes (officially: "telephone kiosks") were designed in the 1920s and 30s by the famous architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. He developed several designs, K6 is the most common.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sixwheeler

Soviet BA-11 armoured car
on 6x4 ZIS-34 chassis, armed with a 45mm gun and two MGs.
Weight - 8,4 ton, top speed - 64 km/h
Eighteen BA-11s with ~90 h.p. petrol and diesel engines were built in 1939-41

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Flying Girl

Elly Beinhorn, a German aviatrix, second woman to fly from Europe to Australia. She made her most famous flight in 1935 (Gleiwitz - Istanbul - Berlin, 3750 km in 13,5 hrs). Her favourite mount was Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun.