Dutch airline stewardess with an AR-10 for defense against polar bears in case of an arctic crash, 1958
Dutch airline stewardess with an AR-10 for defense against polar bears in case of an arctic crash, 1958
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Deleted scene of Princess Leia on Hoth.
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This is such a cool woman
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She probably is hot wearing such a heavy coat, but it'll be needed under the same circumstances as the gun.
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"Flight attendant": 😕
"Stewardess": 😏
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If I recall correctly, those are a quite rare AR-10 variant with single digit amounts still surviving. The featureless muzzle in this picture always catches my eye.
What makes this variant so rare?
The others were eaten by polar bears
Rather than guess from memory, I looked it up.
The rifles were made on contract for KLM, and had a combination of features specific to that run. No one feature was too crazy, but this particular contract run of rifles was a small batch, and thus rare. 16 inch barrels with no muzzle device, semi-auto only, takedown pins on a chain.
What features would you otherwise find on a muzzle?
An angry dog
flash hiders are common fittings.
A flashhider of some type would be seen on most variants sold by Armalite in the era.