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Idi Amin's plane is in the middle of Port Sudan where he abandonned it... and his yacht I been there twice..... but never went the luxury areas your mate is at Tescos is a bit more no frills [ATTACH]35339[/ATTACH] This is the ice vendor... the spare sprocket is for smashing of the ice [ATTACH]35338[/ATTACH] Tasteful decor [ATTACH]35340[/ATTACH] This is the resort gaming area [ATTACH]35337[/ATTACH] Loads of broken Soviet junk there though, mostly planes

G'Day nice beasts Scammels and Militants

depends what it looked like, could range from best on the day to worst dressed plonker

I enjoy a challenge...... I just typed "ww2 machine gun magazine", images

looks like this one http://www.keepshooting.com/firearmaccessories/magazines/mg13-mag-25rd-german.htm

hmmm have me thinking to donate a trophy for A&E see if I still got artistic flair

Well nothing done yesterday as had to go to the junkyards... Managed to make all the mounting points for the roofrack so that will be coming off for finishing. So used the rivnut tool to do a few 6mm inserts and a lot more 8mm inserts. It is a very good tool. I did manage to snap the 6mm tool, but was because of my hamfistedness not the tools fault. The trick to the tool when tightening is you feel the final bite, if you go beyond that you can break the tool :blush: [ATTACH]35303[/ATTACH] Mounted up the spare wheel carrier and finally figured out what the movable latch thing on the rear hoop was for. [ATTACH]35302[/ATTACH]

I thought you like that... I been downloading weird stuff, books but thought the explanation fell there was quite funny

Most likely the armour guys seen this before but I thought this was interesting http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11047

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on a roll now http://www.sdkfz251.com/images/y5.jpg http://www.sdkfz251.com/images/dashl.jpg http://www.sdkfz251.com/images/sdkfz_251_v3.jpg

i dont see anything similar in any of the tank dashes....... not that photos of the dash are very common Also looked in a Merc wartime truck book but nothing same was blind luck I opened the Sd Kfz 251 book........... looks damn near identical in the first piccy with the needle starting at the 11oclock position and the shaded area on the right. Anyway, just trying to earn my beer :-D no-one takes pictures of dashes...... http://www.sdkfz251.com/images/251drivers_compartment_copysiegfried_bunker.jpg

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ahh the Comet ......... another milestone in fracture mechanics. Pity is we never learn from our mistakes but keep repeating them again and again.

You need 3 things to cause brittle fracture, stress (residual or applied), iniation point (defect in weld) and at a temperature below the brittle to ductile transition phase. Crack propagation can be over a km a sec so it is the holy grail of defects for people interested in this as it is almost always catastrophic. The thicker the material the more susceptible UK did all the follow up research and investigations which determined the full causes http://www.twi.co.uk/content/oilgas_caseup31.html

And Sd Kfz 251 Hanomag I [ATTACH]35210[/ATTACH]

hmmm I'm becoming a armour geek :blush: looks a bit like this?? Sd Kfz 251 Hanomag II trying to find a closer shot [ATTACH]35209[/ATTACH]

I dont want to comment on the incident as like people said it will come out in the official investigation Transitional lift errors above is a very common occurance. When just of the ground you have the air cushion under you (ground effect), when you go higher or in any direction were the rotor is tilted you lose this cushion and a significant amount of lift. At that point you need more power and room. Thats why you see movies of helicopters leaving building tops and they fall over ie they left their ground effect

curious if this works as found heaps of them [ATTACH]35206[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]35207[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]35208[/ATTACH] found a lot of gun maintenance, some vehicle stuff

It is quite interesting to see the differing responses. I know in the Army we had some guidlines but the only ones I recall are chucking a few silica bags in the cab (the reusable type) and squirting or more correctly spraying the cylinders (but cant recall with what)

I suppose what ever the issues were is was a complete screw up and 1500 people died. The design was useless as the sister ship hit a mine and went down quicker. From memory it was a smaller hole but the bulkhead doors were still ineffective I just find given the Captain's track record he was an odd choice, perhaps he had old boy connections, perhaps he could be bullied into going to fast. Wasn't he going to retire after this trip? We will never know but as said above we can only guess on the peoples mindsets or thoughts prior to and at the time as regardless of their possible failing no-one wanted an accident to occur.

that was another theory in that brittle fracture occured because at that time it was not known about. However I believe brittle fracture and faulty fabrication have been discounted from the hull samples lifted from the sea bed. Regarding brittle fracture many Liberty ships sunk this way, originally thought to have occured due to enemy action. It wasn't discovered until one broke in half in harbour and it was investigated they worked out what was occuring. If anyones interested I'll try and find the piccies and details as it was a quite an important investigation.

I just wonder if it is another revision of history based on nothing as this was released to coincide with her book release which is fiction from memory Dont get me wrong if its correct :yay: if BS then :noyay: Seems to me too fast, in an unknown vessel in iceberg conditions..... hmmm doing a dig through my stuff as I had a HSE assement on it ‘Safety outweighing every other consideration?’ Was the framed notice in the chart room of every White Star liner in 1912 The Olympic – Prelude to Disaster †21st Jun 1911 ·Upon commissioning crashed into & almost sunk O.L. Halenbeck in Manhattan †20th Sep 1911 ·Crashed into the Naval Cruiser the HMS Hawke in Southampton †24th Feb 1912 ·Knocked-off one of its twenty-six tone propellers on a well-known wreck in the Grand Banks (Captained Edward J. Smith) Captain Edward J. Smith †27th Jan 1889 ·Ran The Republic aground in New York †1st Dec 1890 ·Ran The Coptic aground in Rio de Janerio †4th Nov 1909 ·Ran The Adriatic aground outside New York History of running ships too fast through narrow passages.. and of not adequately training his officers Captain Smith was commissioned to command the Titanic † 14th April 1912 ·Smith received at least six warnings of Ice field from ships at dead stop in the area ·No binoculars in the crow’s nest meant that early warning was near impossible ·Titanic sped toward ice field at 22.5 knots vs a recommended 10 knots in such conditions †Motivations for this speed ·Desire to break the transatlantic speed record as encouraged by J. Bruce Ismay MD of White Star who was on board for the maiden voyage †Safety Response Capability ·Lifeboats on the ship had been reduced from sixty-four boats to twenty-two in lieu of more expansive promenades ·The officers on board The Titanic had not trained with the lifeboats and were unsure of their holding capacity ·There was not a standing safety-response plan.. the ‘Women and Children first’ response was a reaction more than a previously-agreed plan. The Results †Lives Saved: 705 †Lives Lost: 1500 †Total passengers 2,205 †Max Lifeboat Capacity 1,600 †It wasn’t until 45 minutes after the collision that officers commenced preparing the lifeboats †Twenty lifeboats were launched †Officers feared that the ship’s davits & winches would not hold the weight of the recommended 70 people †All but the last few lifeboats floated were half-filled †It is a fact that had the Officers filled the lifeboats per their specification an additional 600+ people could have been saved.

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