Captain Capacitor posted:

I took all of these, so I hope linking them like this is okay. I'll move them onto Waffle if not.





The last one, while just a stunt show, is just as badass to me. Stuntmen deserve some credit for the poo poo they go through.

zerox147o posted:

Is that last one the Indiana Jones show at Disney World?

The Taped Crusader posted:

Sorry about the last frame, this is from Reddit.

Chantilly Say posted:

Okay... now, how does he plan on getting down?

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The damage occurred when she was flying a mission over Baghdad on 7 April 2003. "We did our job with the guys there on the ground, and as we were on our way out is when I felt the jet get hit. It was pretty obvious - it was loud ... I lost all hydraulics instantaneously, and the jet rolled left and pointed toward the ground, which was an uncomfortable feeling over Baghdad. It didn't respond to any of my control inputs." She tried several procedures to get the aircraft under control, none of which worked; last, she put the plane into manual reversion, meaning she was flying the aircraft without hydraulics. The aircraft immediately responded. "The jet started climbing away from the ground, which was a good feeling because there was no way I wanted to eject over Baghdad." With some technical advice from her flight leader, Lieutenant Colonel Turner, she flew the injured plane for an hour back to the air base. "The jet was performing exceptionally well. I had no doubt in my mind I was going to land that airplane." Landing was tricky: "When you lose all the hydraulics, you don't have speed brakes, you don't have brakes, and you don't have steering."

Heintron posted:

Putin deserves to be in this thread.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

What the hell kinda gun is that? (besides badass)

Heintron posted:

co199 posted:

This is Major Kim Reed-Campbell, USAF:



Why is she a bad rear end? Not only is she a fantastic pilot, she also flies my favorite plane, the A-10 Thunderbolt II:



In 2003, as she was finishing up a Close Air Support mission in Iraq, her A-10 Warthog got shot up by enemy fire. From Wikipedia:


Pretty loving bad rear end if you ask me.

co199 posted:

This is Major Kim Reed-Campbell, USAF:



Why is she a bad rear end? Not only is she a fantastic pilot, she also flies my favorite plane, the A-10 Thunderbolt II:



In 2003, as she was finishing up a Close Air Support mission in Iraq, her A-10 Warthog got shot up by enemy fire. From Wikipedia:


Pretty loving bad rear end if you ask me.

dinozombiesgoRARR posted:

Parkour is pretty cool, but it was totally badass back in the 1930s.

Barometer posted:

Well, the missing badass Putin picture was this;

Talk about security failures!

cosmin posted:

any backstory on this? was he undercover or something?

funtax posted:

Nah. Young Putin was still pretty intimidating.

funtax posted:

Nah. Young Putin was still pretty intimidating.

apsouthern posted:

Click here for the full 1500x1125 image.

Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton. Details unknown. Central Police Station, Sydney, around 1920.

apsouthern posted:

Click here for the full 1500x1125 image.

Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton. Details unknown. Central Police Station, Sydney, around 1920.

Gorilla Salad posted:

I'm guessing this is it?

Lewis Thornton Powell, involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln. Executed soon after this photo was taken.

Barometer posted:

Well, the missing badass Putin picture was this;

Talk about security failures!

Memory-Alpha posted:

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, nineteen-year-old Doohan enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Canadian Artillery. After rising through the ranks to Sergeant, he won a place at Officer Training School, becoming a Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Field Regiment.

On 6 June 1944, Doohan, by then promoted to Command Post Officer (Captain), was among the Canadian forces sent to take Juno Beach in Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion. He was in command of 120 men. That night, Doohan was machine-gunned when returning to his command post, sustaining wounds in the leg, right hand and chest – a cigarette case caught a bullet that would otherwise have killed him – and lost the middle finger of his right hand (because of this injury, outside of rare occasions, Doohan would conceal that portion of his right hand in film shots.) "I was twenty-four," Doohan wrote in his book Beam Me Up, Scotty, "And if the Germans had been marginally better shots, I wouldn't have seen twenty-five."
...
He was posted to 666 (AOP) RCAF Squadron, where he flew the AUSTER Mark V aircraft, a dangerous, low-level flight tasking for artillery officers who photographed enemy positions, and directed artillery fire from the air. Although 666 (AOP) RCAF Squadron was not sent into battle, the unit was stationed at Apeldoorn, Holland, through the summer of 1945 to conduct "air taxi" duties

Gorilla Salad posted:

I'm guessing this is it?

Lewis Thornton Powell, involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln. Executed soon after this photo was taken.

Geisladisk posted:

Uh, Mr. Chairman, that is not how you wear those...



You know what, nevermind, forget I said anything, sorry.

Although Vladimir Putin is probably one of the most evil people that has ever existed, I have to admit, the guy is pretty badass.

acejackson42 posted:

I distinctly remember the first time I saw this guy's picture - 'holy hell, that is one scary dude'. I mean, he absolutely positively screams 'former KGB death-dealer' just at a glance. He's probably the only major foreign leader in history who could take out Teddy Roosevelt without breaking a sweat.

acejackson42 posted:

He's probably the only major foreign leader in history who could take out Teddy Roosevelt without breaking a sweat.