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January 17, 2008 at 4:18 am in reply to: A Concorde to be preserved at last #1302307

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Obsolete “no longer in use”

defn of obsolete “no longer in use”.

Am I missing something? I always wanted to fly in a Concorde. Where is it?

January 17, 2008 at 4:14 am in reply to: Soviet Stirling #1302310

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… It would be fascinating to know what the Russians did with a Stirling …

Well I think the answer to the last sentence is still awaited.

The article in Aeroplane Monthly addresses this – but it’s not in my hands as I type this. IIRC 😉 it was said to have been used briefly as a transport aircraft (along with at least one abandoned Lanc specials also discussed in the article). As to it’s fate … who knows? Scrapped most likely.

December 18, 2007 at 3:24 am in reply to: General Discussion #359706

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Automatic Transcoding

It seems the correct phrase is “automatic transcoding”, which is on reflection a reasonable description of the concept but I wasn’t going to think of it in a decade. And the answer is I can’t do what I want to do (or perhaps just not for the time being).
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=193033

December 18, 2007 at 3:24 am in reply to: iTunes, iPods, audio formats #1921636

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Automatic Transcoding

It seems the correct phrase is “automatic transcoding”, which is on reflection a reasonable description of the concept but I wasn’t going to think of it in a decade. And the answer is I can’t do what I want to do (or perhaps just not for the time being).
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=193033

December 17, 2007 at 8:55 am in reply to: General Discussion #359756

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I think you’re missing my point – it’s easy enough to connect the iPod and synch … what I want to do is use different codecs between the version on the PC and one on the iPod. I don’t know if you can do this.

December 17, 2007 at 8:55 am in reply to: iTunes, iPods, audio formats #1921690

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I think you’re missing my point – it’s easy enough to connect the iPod and synch … what I want to do is use different codecs between the version on the PC and one on the iPod. I don’t know if you can do this.

December 15, 2007 at 8:43 am in reply to: Gun Turrets or Not ? #1247009

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Other related threads

There are two other/related threads I can think of …

this one about .303 machine guns (vs. twin .50’s)
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=75624

and this one that discusses schrage musik and other stuff
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=67563

December 13, 2007 at 9:28 am in reply to: Multi-engine synchronisation #1249351

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Rolls-Royce chose to make the Peregrines really complicated – the engines, not just the props, were handed. They reckoned it was too much trouble and never did it again…

This is all really fascinating and now my head hurts. Why does an engine rotate in any direction at all? Surely the piston is just moving vertically so what causes an engine to rotate only one way? I can see how a flywheel, once set in motion, will keep it spinning one way – and a starter motor has a gear on it that will spin the engine in the “right” direction.

But I also remember the vicious kickback on my 1970’s Yamaha 360 trailbike (Hairy Ned to those in the know). That engine didn’t care which way it turned!

edit … Hah! Archer’s on the same theme at the same time !!!

December 12, 2007 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Multi-engine synchronisation #1249847

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Do they all rotate the same way? Really?

Potentially revealing my ignorance here … oh well, into the breach.

And here I was thinking all these years that logically multis have engines/props rotating one way (clockwise) on one wing and the other way (counterclockwise) on the other wing. Always seemed sensible to me in terms of trimming straight ahead.

Have I got that all wrong?

December 12, 2007 at 11:44 pm in reply to: Cold Day at Duxford – 11 Dec 07 #1249877

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BEAUTIFUL

Lovely stuff … I have to say though that whenever I see a “Luftwaffe” Buchon it looks wrong to me (Merlin!). I’d like someone, somewhere to put up a Spanish Air Force Buchon!

December 12, 2007 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Jet engines to the Soviet Union #1249895

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262 original design had c-of-g problems

That’s correct. The wings were swept as a late in process action to rectify c-of-g problems. It was much easier to do this than redesign the whole thing. Inital design had near straight wings not dissimilar in fact to Meteor. I have a very good article on that somewhere.

December 12, 2007 at 10:54 pm in reply to: Red Baron RB-51 Unlimited Racer Revisited #1249965

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WOW !!!

December 12, 2007 at 9:16 am in reply to: WWII Bomber Command squadron codes – what font? #1250720

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Thanks mhuxt, that’s spot on 😉

December 11, 2007 at 8:59 pm in reply to: WWII Bomber Command squadron codes – what font? #1251080

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I’ve had a stab at using aerial …

I think you mean Arial. And that’s more or less Helvetica which is a long serving font much liked by designers (and others I guess) for it’s simplicity of design and ‘easy’ reading/comprehension.

Thanks also JDK, airart and Roobarb.

Don

December 10, 2007 at 11:20 pm in reply to: WWII Bomber Command squadron codes – what font? #1252228

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… If you had a picture of the aircraft in question or one of the other aircraft on the squadron you would be able to make a better job of replicating any idiosyncrasies it might have had …

Here’s a well known late war photograph of a 619 squadron aircraft, LM446 (I thought I found the photo on raf.mod.uk but don’t see it there now)

cheers D
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