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The design of the modified DL-44 blaster pistol owned by Han Solo was based on the 7.63-caliber Mauser C96, an early and successful automatic pistol that was used in World War I and World War II. Lucasfilm's prop department added a scope and an emitter nozzle to the pistol. [2]
Tobias Beckett is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, first appearing and portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story.He is a thief working for the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate and the former mentor of Han Solo, whom he later betrays.
B-17G-90-DL 44-83690 is a heavy bomber manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. Douglas was one of two companies in addition to Boeing, designated to manufacture B-17s during World War II. General features of the B-17 include its mid-wing monoplane design, aluminum-clad exterior, four radial engines, massive wing ...
A C96 was modified to form Han Solo's prop blaster pistol for the Star Wars films (under the name BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol). [13] [104] Han Solo's Star Wars blaster was created from a Mauser C96 pistol with a shortened barrel fitted with a MG81 flash hider and a Hensoldt-Wetzlar scope. [105]
On 1 December 2016, 8129 lead DL45, DL44, DL50 and DL42 on a light engine movement to Port Kembla for reactivation work for grain haulage. The class have since been used in South Australia on grain workings during 2018 and 2019, and since 2021 have been commonly found in the Werris Creek area on grain services from Western and Northwestern NSW ...
B-17G-95-DL 44-83872, registered N7227C, named Texas Raiders, had a mid-air collision with a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, registered N6763, at the Dallas Executive Airport while performing during the Wings Over Dallas airshow. The P-63 overtook the B-17 on a descending trajectory during low-level maneuvers and impacted the aircraft from the port side ...
Radial engines of B-17 in flight. As of December 2022, 18 B-17s were registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). [3] These include Nine-O-Nine (N93012, crashed in October 2019), Texas Raiders (N7227C, crashed in November 2022), and a B-17G registered in Granite Falls, Minnesota (N4960V) [4] that was scrapped in 1962. [5]
USS William V. Pratt (DLG-13/DDG-44) was a Farragut-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy.She was commissioned in 1961 as DLG-13 and reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, designation DDG-44, in 1975.