RE: Propellers – Pt 1

Keith

Excellent info. I have a question for you on this subject.

Given that the power output of the engines used in fighters during world war I was quite low, how would fighters like the SE-5A, Camel, Spad, Albatross etc, have performed if they had been fitted with variable pitch props? What sort of pitch did they have as they were fixed pitch, generally two bladed timber jobs?

Regards

Wombat

RE: Home build G-MJZP

Whatever it is, I doubt I’d want to go up in it!!!

Wombat

RE: Help

Moggy

Bloody marvellous – your hint has fixed the sorting of the threads out. Many thanks for the advice.

Snapper

I’ll take your advice to see if it clears up some of the other problems I have. I defrag about once every two months, which isn’t too bad because I don’t have a lot of programs running, but still takes the hours you mentioned. I’ll go through the other processes too.

Ant

I realised that my original thread was a little ambiguous. When I stated that my pc “binned” the old posts, what I meant was that, having opened the “Read New” option, if the pc crashed, the forum assumed that I had read all the new posts, so when I re-booted and rentered the forum, the “Read new” posts had been consigned to the various conferences and couldn’t be simply read through as they should be. As my sorting was by number of views, I was then forced to read through every forum to pick up the recent posts I missed out. This was annoying and very time consuming. Now that Moggy’s hint has sorted that problem out, I shouldn’t get so annoyed when the pc has a spit. I suspect there may be a virus or two running around in there, as error messages occur frequently, I have to go through “my computer” to dial up as the Internet Explorer icon won’t activate by itself, and there are a few other hiccups.

I’ll see how Snappers’ hints go and let you all know.

I would like to thank you all for your help and support.

Regards

Wombat

RE: My say

Geforce

I’m not sure that I follow your post fully, but your comment regarding attacking somebody because they are sexist or whatever wasn’t part of my original intention with this post. I didn’t attack anybody personally, and especially not their use of this forum. My whole purpose was to plant the idea that consideration for other members would sometimes go a fair way to improving the forum.

I’ve read the posts recently with Cyrus 666 and James Caan, and I suspect that they deliberately post the sort of messages they do to stir people up. And they are very successful at doing it. I am quite happy to let them continue to be the ogres on this forum, but feel that they are also necessary characters to liven things up.

I realise that GarryB was concerned at my post and I’m still not sure how to take his response, but I would rather think he was pulling my leg than taking me seriously. He certainly has the right to post whatever he likes, and is correct to say that, if I don’t like or am not interested in the post, then leave.

However, when I am interested in a post and people take the theme so far left of centre that the original post is wiped out, then justify doing so by stating that the original thread was exhausted anyway, seems a bit high handed to me. It is very hard not to digress from the original theme at times, but a little consideration for other members could go a long way.

Regards

Wombat

RE: Things that really tick me off with the forum

Garry

I read your reply a few hours ago and didn’t have the time at that point to respond. I wanted time to think about what you said anyway, as I wasn’t sure whether you were being fascetious or serious.

However, you felt the need to repeat yourself on another post, so I assume you are serious.

In my original post on this thread, I made it clear that I sought not to offend anybody, simply to make a point. The J-35 thread wandered so far off field, I’m buggered if I know how you and Vortex got there. Anyway, that doesn’t matter, because my point was simply that, if you have a subject that is “off-topic”, but strong enough in itself to justify its own thread, then go that way and leave the original thread to those who wish to pursue it. You maintain the thread had fizzled out anyway, so I assume that was justification enough for you to take it your way, without consideration for anybody else who might have wanted to follow the original thread.

You have missed the point I made in my second post, too. I said that I felt there was more value in maintaining a “global” perspective to the forum, by avoiding a preponderance of local interest issues. Can’t see how that is disliking local issues, just that it is reminding people that this is an international forum.

To try to instil an Australian flavour to the forum by talking about Australian trivia (thanks for the two suggestions – really deep and meaningful, both of them!), I would be doing exactly what I was asking others to think about before they create so many “local interest” posts. Let’s face it, there isn’t an awful lot that happens in this part of the world that is of real interest overseas, so I’m certainly not going to bore people with threads about Australian customs and laws. I did try one post, with some success, but it was centred around the persepective the foreign press was giving to our immigration policies and illegal immigrants. I wanted the world perspective on the issue, not Australia’s. I can get that any day of the week.

I still can’t be sure your post wasn’t a bit of a leg-pull, so I’ll assume your memo was well intentioned, with no malice intended. There are plenty of other twits who have shown their true colours by attacking members, and I don’t wish to be one of them. I doubt that you do either. If you have another look at my first post on this thread, you will see that I dump on myself a couple of times, to lighten the tone of the post. I’m not dead serious about this matter, and don’t need to “harden up” or whatever. (I have to be honest and say that I’m not even sure what that means. Out here we say either “get a life” or “lighten up”.)

Regards

Wombat

RE: Are we getting a little complacent????

Yak

As I posted my previous memo, I thought about the marketability of replica Mustangs and you have a point – they sell.

However, as you can see from the other members responses to this thread, not everybody wants more Mustangs. They are the most common warbird in existence and frankly, when I see an article dealing with another Mustang, I read the rest of the magazine first. Mustangs, Spitfires and Hurricanes have been done to death.

When one thinks of the vast array of single engined aircraft which flew and fought in WW 2, many of which no longer exist at all, there is a huge opportunity for something new. The 262 and 190 projects won’t appeal to those people who want to watch old, brightly coloured aircraft racing around pylons, but for the real aircraft lover, rare and especially airworthy old aircraft are the real gems at an airshow. Spits and Hurris flying past wound beaut and look great, but a Whirlwind or Defiant would have every bit as much crowd appeal to the masses, but would be far more satisfying to the purist.

If you were going to produce replicas of an aircraft which is still in plentiful supply, such as Mustangs, perhaps you should concentrate on building the rarer versions such as the lightweight Mustang (P-51H?) But please, no more P-51D’s!

Regards

Wombat

RE: General questions

You guys really should get out more…..