Those external nubs strongly suggest something that was used for winding fiber or knitting. Storing thread for sewing? Some kind of frame for a popular knitting pattern?
We stayed in Sheerness (where this flight took place), and when my girlfriend saw this she immediately asked “Did pigs fly before women did?”. And the answer turned out to be no, women beat pigs by two weeks: “Sarah Van Deman … was the woman who flew with Wilbur Wright on October 27, 1909” source
When my brother was at USMC weapons training, another group strapped a high-power concert speaker system to a couple MRAPs and blasted a metal version of the imperial march driving the convoy back to base… First-hand reports say the ground was shaking noticeably not only from the vehicles but in time with the music.
Here you go! I apoligize for the graininess of the scan. The photo should be labeled more accurately that it is using the illuminator from an M2 but without the actual scope attached. The soldier is wearing prototype night vision goggles on his helmet that can pick up the illuminator’s IR light. I should have more properly labeled the post better, and probably will change that now.
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