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  • in reply to: General Discussion #329545
    Creaking Door
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    …oil companies are not going to like it, the last thing they want is cars run on water.

    Have I missed something?

    Since when has it been economically feasible to run cars on hydrogen (or even possible to run them on water)? And yes, I understand water is H2O but how do we get the H separated from the 2O?

    in reply to: General Discussion #329848
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    I’d never heard the term before either (never studied statistics) but half-guessed the answer based on proportions.

    The Wikipedia explanation is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified_sampling

    in reply to: Mathematics Test – Are You Brave Enough? #1906009
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    I’d never heard the term before either (never studied statistics) but half-guessed the answer based on proportions.

    The Wikipedia explanation is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratified_sampling

    in reply to: Mathematics Test – Are You Brave Enough? #1906079
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    I’m crap at maths; always have been, always will be…

    Don’t worry; the website is promising test in other areas of the curriculum: history, geography, physics, French, RE, music…

    I’ll certainly get 0/20 in music! 🙂

    in reply to: General Discussion #330033
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    I’m crap at maths; always have been, always will be…

    Don’t worry; the website is promising test in other areas of the curriculum: history, geography, physics, French, RE, music…

    I’ll certainly get 0/20 in music! 🙂

    in reply to: Hmmm #1202994
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    Is this jacket actually that shocking?

    It doesn’t interest me, no ‘personal’ kit does, but what is actually being sold here? The statement that “there are some old bloodstains” doesn’t mean anybody died (or killed) wearing it, it doesn’t even mean that it came into contact with somebody who was wounded (though that may be intentionally implied).

    For all we know the guy who was wearing it fell over in a bar and cut himself on a broken beer-bottle!

    in reply to: BoB Hurricane – Sackcloth and ashes #1203023
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    Tim,

    Since we’ve been having a debate about it here the last few days I wonder what your views on the wreckage of crashed aircraft being dug-up. Most museums have engines and other relics on display these days, but what are your thoughts about the buying and selling of relics by private collectors?

    I hope you don’t mind me asking but I don’t know if I’ll ever have such a chance again.

    in reply to: Can anybody ID this photo? #1203035
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    I didn’t know that. I did wonder about the ghoulish nature of the subject matter but thought maybe it was a sign of the times; millions of dead on the Western Front plus aircraft being something of a novelty and successful pilots having celebrity status.

    in reply to: Heads Up Fairford BBC1 #1203315
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    At least the BBC covered the event. I enjoyed the footage of the aircraft and I do feel a bit sorry for Dan Snow; those sorts of commentaries cannot be easy to do live, especially if you’re expected to keep chopping-in other commentators and interviews.

    The ‘interviews’ with the veterans were truly dire; you cannot sum up the Battle of Britain in a sound-bite!

    in reply to: Can anybody ID this photo? #1203621
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    It’s an interesting photo.

    It is an interesting photo, particularly the fact that is a postcard with regard to its subject matter (and I’m not implying that is what you meant when you described it as ‘lovely’).

    How do you feel about this sort of photo being bought and sold? :diablo: (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

    in reply to: Hmmm #1203627
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    The actual statement at the beginning of the Act reads thus:

    An Act to secure the protection from unauthorised interference of military aircraft and vessels that have crashed, sunk or been stranded and of associated human remains; and for connected purposes.

    Another popular misconception is that the words “Military Remains” refer to human remains. Not so!

    I stand corrected.

    in reply to: Hmmm #1203776
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    I’ve just had a quick look through the Protection of Military Remains Act and surprisingly there is no mention of what happens to any remains recovered.

    Surely the ‘remains’ referred to in the title of this act are human remains.

    The act, quite rightly, seems to have been designed to protect any war graves that may have been disturbed as a result of salvage operations so I don’t suppose any thought was given to ‘wrecks’ that didn’t contain any human remains.

    in reply to: Mystery Fuel Tanks #1204106
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    The Halifax had wing leading-edge tanks between the engines (possibly oil tanks?) also there were five or six fuel tanks in each wing and these were laid side by side (long dimension fore-to-aft) so the other tank may be one of those.

    in reply to: Mystery Fuel Tanks #1204301
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    My guess would be Halifax (one is a leading-edge tank).

    Weren’t a lot of Halifaxes broken-up at Kinloss?

    in reply to: Vulcan Bomber Survivors in North America #1204490
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    Shame on me…

    No, I don’t think so…..if I was that close to a B-36…

    …Vulcan…..what Vulcan? 😀

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