Gondola of a Goodyear ZNP-K (K-type) non-rigid airship ("blimp") of the US Navy, of which 133 were produced during WW2 for maritime patrol. This specific one, K-84, was based in Brazil from 1943 and made anti-submarine patrols and escorted merchant convoys from Santa Cruz. #History #Airship

Spotted today: mobile flower shop in a vintage Blue Bird bus #vintage #bus

Carel Willink- The Zeppelin, 1933 Fun fact: it is an actual existing location (Amsterdam, corner Stadhouderskade/P.C. Hooftstraat) and the left building is still there (photo: @Arno). German airship Graf Zeppelin flew over Amsterdam in Oct 1929. #Art #Willink #MagicalRealism

Andrey Zakirzyanov- The Tower, ca. 2012 #Art

Art-deco dress, early 1930ies. #Art #History

Old and new towers. Rotterdam, Netherlands, early 2026. Photo @Arno #architecture #Rotterdam

Seversky BT-8 early 1930ies basic trainer. The US Army Air Corps ordered 30 of them in 1935. The aircraft was derived from the SEV-3 amphibious floatplane, which was only produced in small amounts. #Aircraft #Aviation #History

exlibris from Italo Zetti for Jean Morisot, 1954, wood carving #Art #EroticArt #Books

Hellmuth Stockmann - Lesbische Freunden, 1920 #EroticArt #Art #Sapphic

Lisa Lyon, photo from Robert Mapplethorpe, 1981 #Art #EroticArt #Hotlegs

Work by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, of the 1980s Russian “paper architecture” movement. I am fascinated by these kind of works. #Architecture #Art

The Audience (1925) - etching by Norman Lindsay #Art #Occult

Our pet demands food…. #dogs

Republic RC-2 Rainbow, the proposed airliner version of the F-12 WW2 reconnaissance aircraft which only flew in 1946. Equipped with a pressure cabin for 46 passengers it reached 700 km/h cruise. PanAm and American Airlines placed orders, but the unit price became too high #Aviation #Aircraft

Carel Willink-Fuga Monialium, 1967 The model is Mathila de Doeler, who would marry Willink in 1969. #Art #MagicalRealism #Willink

The fabulous American burlesque dancer, model and actress Dita von Teese #EroticArt #Hotlegs #Art #Burlesque

Royal Aircraft Factory SE5 fighter from WWI, of which over 5200 were produced in 1917-1918. Together with the Sopwith Camel the type is regarded as instrumental in regaining allied air superiority from mid-1917. Here a line-up on the Western front. #Aerospace #Aviation #History #Aircraft

Waiting for some action….. #LazyDog

Leduc 022 French experimental plane from the 1950ies, with mixed turbojet/ramjet power. Although it had impressive performance (speeds up to 1200 km/h, climb to 25000 m in 7 minutes) the project was abandoned due to financial reasons. #Aerospace #Aviation #History

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, photo by Peter Basch. Ekberg is best known for her role in La Dolce Vita (1960) from Federico Fellini #EroticArt #Erotics #Art #hotlegs

Arthur Fisher- Satyr and Nymph - 1908 #EroticArt #nsfw #Erotica #Art

Lockheed Vega 1920ies seven seat airliner, became famous for being used in several speed and long-range records. Over 130 were produced, which was a respectable number in these days. The Vega was built from sheets of plywood. It could fly around 1100 km with 265 km/h cruise. #Aviation #History

Utrecht, Netherlands #streetart

Rotterdam, Netherlands #streetart

Our dog likes to watch these endless Tour de France stages. However he never makes it to the end…. #dogs

Illustration of airship design by Moses S. Cole, patent dated Nov 9, 1886. Engraving featured on the front cover of Scientific American, January 1st, 1887. The airship was never built. #Aerospace #Airship #History

Collier's Magazine, March 22, 1952, the "Man Will Conquer Space Soon" issue. Illustration of spacestation. #Aerospace #SciFi

Dutch singer Merol; album cover #EroticArt #Music

Republic (Seversky) Super-Clipper project. A 1938 design to meet a Pan Am specification for a 100-passenger trans-Atlantic flying cruise ship, with passengers in luxury cabins spread throughout the fuselage, tailbooms and wing and a sizable dining hall. #Aerospace #History #Aviation

Carel Willink - Het Jachtslot (The Hunting Lodge), 1935. Oil on canvas. #Willink #MagicalRealism

Illustration from Mitologia Erotică by Marcel Chirnoagă (1930-2008, Romenia); part of a range of drawings and engravings based on scenes and themes from classical mythology #EroticArt #Erotics #nsfw

German model, singer and actress Nico. She is best known for her contribution to the fabulous debut album of avant-garde rock band Velvet Underground. #hotlegs #Booknerd #Books #Rock

Pyke Koch- sleepwalkster III, around 1965 #MagicalRealism #Art

Petrolstation, designed by W.M. Dudok, 1953. Turfsingel, Groningen, the Netherlands. Nowadays preserved and in use as sandwich shop. #Architecture #Dudok

Study for nude by Dutch artist Leo Gestel, around 1930 #Erotics #Eroticart #art #nude

Helene Stöcker (1869-1943); German feminist, activist for sexual education and legalisation of homosexual and lesbian relation and pacifist. (1/2) #Feminism #History #Sapphic

Blackburn B.T.1 Beagle British bomber/torpedo aircraft from the late 1920ies. First flight Feb1928. It did not met the requirements and was re-engined. The only prototype of the Beagle was used up to 1933 for tests. #Aviation #Aircraft #History #Avgeek