Guess what this is a photo of!

[qmax]

This one should be fairly easy: What is it called and what does it do?

 

[Barbara L]

AWACS jet, used for airborne surveillance and command and control?

Barbara

 

[qmax]

AWACS jet, used for airborne surveillance and command and control?

Barbara

Not an AWACS. AWACS was a 707 platform (767 for Japan, which as an aside, I was part of the Boeing sales team)

 

[qmax]

Not an AWACS. AWACS was a 707 platform (767 for Japan, which as an aside, I was part of the Boeing sales team)

AWACS has a big saucer shaped radome on a couple of struts on the back part of the fuselage.

 

[les]

It's a Nimrod R1, or MRA4, the RAF uses them.
The world's only jet powered maritime patrol & anti submarine warfare aircraft.

 

[qmax]

It's a Nimrod R1, or MRA4, the RAF uses them.
The world's only jet powered maritime patrol & anti submarine warfare aircraft.

Very good. It won't be the only jet powered maritime patrol aircraft for long, though. The 737-based P-8 is starting to enter it's test phase.

My company had a lot of people in the UK working on a Nimrod upgrade program.

 

[les]

Where is this & why are statue's eyes covered?
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[qmax]

Four Rivers fountain in Rome. The Niles eyes are covered to avoid seeing the structural defects in the church.

 

[les]

Four Rivers fountain in Rome. The Niles eyes are covered to avoid seeing the structural defects in the church.

It is indeed The Fountain Of Four Rivers, however, the statues were completed a year before the church was built.

 

[qmax]

It is indeed The Fountain Of Four Rivers, however, the statues were completed a year before the church was built.

Then I was misinformed about the reason for the covered eyes.

 

[les]

Then I was misinformed about the reason for the covered eyes.

you certainly were, here's a clue: look to the left of the statue, see the palm tree? There's a clue.

 

[qmax]

So a few googles and the explanation I found in several placed (and, at least on one site, purported to be an old Roman joke), is that the Nile's eye are covered because it's headwaters were unknown.

 

[les]

So a few googles and the explanation I found in several placed (and, at least on one site, purported to be an old Roman joke), is that the Nile's eye are covered because it's headwaters were unknown.

[FONT=&quot]Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi[/FONT][FONT=&quot] - Fountain of the Four Rivers - Piazza Navona Series [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Oris Barber's Commentary: "This photo shows Bernini's figure depicting the Nile River, with face covered, and Borromini's church in background." According to legend, the figure representing the Nile has its face covered so that it cannot see the façade of the church of Sant' Agnese, designed by Bernini's rival, Francesco Borromini. And the figure representing the River Plate is raising its hand, as if to stop the church from falling down. In fact neither is true as the church was begun a year after the fountain was completed. The true explanation is this: The Nile's face is covered and the River Plate's hand is raised to shield its eyes because the sources of both rivers were unknown at the time. [/FONT]
So Basically they had not found the source of the Nile
your turn

 

[qmax]

What and where?

 

[les]

What a lovely picture, okay i'm on the case..

 

[AspireChef]

New here

new here! but I THINK, that's cape town South Africa? specifically table mountain?

 

[les]

What and where?

I think it's the sunseting over Table Mountain SA

 

[qmax]

new here! but I THINK, that's cape town South Africa? specifically table mountain?

Score on the first play from scrimmage!

You're up.

 

[AspireChef]

where?

Where is this?

 

[bethzaring]

Rothenburg Bavaria?