‘Conflict archeo’ quote:-
“It always involves something iconic and valuable. Jeeps, Harley-Davidsons, Spitfires – always discarded at the end of the war, you always hear of it second or third hand.”
By: Zac Yates - 28th January 2016 at 21:25
The Airframe Assemblies of the wooden ration box world
And here I was, thinking I was being clever!
By: Moggy C - 28th January 2016 at 10:29
The Seabees built a ramp running into the sea..
Busy chaps those Seabees 😀
By: CeBro - 28th January 2016 at 09:52
Looking at those pics, I was thinking about the (outer)wingless Seafires that were used for catapult trials in the UK. Any possible projects?
Just curious as ever.
Cees
By: Null Orifice - 28th January 2016 at 08:57
jeepman:
I particularly like the top item in your web reference:
VAT 69 crate as imported to the US by Park Tilford. Complete with removable lid.
Price £35.00 each plus the shipping
(any cheaper with a non-removable lid?)
By: jeepman - 28th January 2016 at 07:36
I do rather enjoy Coca-Cola – especially at airshows – but can it be restored from the basis of such a find? Are we entering into the realm of “label rebuilds”? :stupid:
The Airframe Assemblies of the wooden ration box world
By: Matt Poole - 28th January 2016 at 07:15
No, that’s iced tonic.
By: Mark12 - 28th January 2016 at 07:02
Well, vintage Coca Cola could be seen as iconic?
😀
Moggy
I thought more…isotonic.
By: Creaking Door - 28th January 2016 at 02:14
The ‘whistle’ of German bombs was produced, quite deliberately, by modified bayonet scabbards or even cardboard (?) tubes attached to the bomb tails so I don’t see why a coke bottle couldn’t have produced a noise that could be heard on the ground…
…not sure the terminal-velocity of a free-falling coke bottle would have been fast enough?
By: Matt Poole - 28th January 2016 at 01:53
On 159 Squadron (Liberators) flying out of India, Coca Cola bottles were occasionally dropped out over a target to scare those below. The key was in inserting a used razor blade within the bottle. Dropping through the air, the bottles-with-razor blades allegedly produced a whistling sound — or at least that’s what the Liberator crews believed. Did a falling bottle produced enough noise to be heard, or enough to really scare? Maybe if several were dropped at the same time, I suppose. The men in the bombers liked to think their Coke bottle projectiles made a few of the enemy, at least, duck when they would have otherwise fired back in anger.
Perhaps with its general link to RAF Liberators, a glass Coke bottle could be the basis of a Liberator rebuild…not exactly a data plate starting point, but… (Which reminds me of the 1970s Woody Allen movie “Sleeper”, where a beloved leader was going to be cloned from all that remained of him: his nose.)
By: Zac Yates - 28th January 2016 at 00:59
I do rather enjoy Coca-Cola – especially at airshows – but can it be restored from the basis of such a find? Are we entering into the realm of “label rebuilds”? :stupid:
By: Moggy C - 27th January 2016 at 23:26
Well, vintage Coca Cola could be seen as iconic?
😀
Moggy
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