Friday, March 28, 2014

P-39 Recovered from Russian Lake After Six Decades

October 21, 2010 — A Bell P-39Q Airacobra that was built in a western New York state factory in 1943 has returned home after resting at the bottom of a Russian lake since 1944. This particular aircraft was part of 4,719 P-39s sent to the Soviet Union under the United States’ Lend-Lease program, which propped up Allied forces with war materiel before and after the U.S. entered World War II. Miss Lend-Lease, as it has been named by the Ira G. Ross/Niagara Aerospace Museum (NAM) that is undertaking the restoration, served in a frontline Soviet Air Force squadron along

Different kind of Transformers


Frank Frazetta: "The Silver Warrior" (1972)


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H.R. Giger on the set of Alien


H.R. Giger on the set of Alien, creating the props, set-pieces and costumes, 1979

Hydnora Africana: The flesh eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors is for real

The Hydnora Africana is a plant found in South Africa, the plant grows underground, except for a fleshy flower that emerges above ground and emits an odor of feces to attract its natural

Bela Lugosi behind the scenes of Mark of the Vampire

                                                        
Bela Lugosi behind-the-scenes of Mark of the Vampire (MGM, 1935)