One of the Macchi (I think) Schneider Trophy entries had contra-props which must have been in the 20s. Got an idea it had 2 separate engines driving them.
Seafire 47 (Griffon) had ’em, several Spits for trials but as far as I know, no production ones.
Got a book about Rotol, I’ll see if there’s anything in there.

Manonthefence, tea can only stew if the the tea leaves/tea bags are still in it. You wouldn’t really put them in a flask, would you?
Just drinking a cup of tea made just over 4 hours ago. Took the teabags out of the pot 10 minutes later. 1 minute in the microwave and it’s still fine. Always know when it’s been too long, it goes grey!

Weather forecast was gibberish so we went to Breighton. Unfortunately, ferocious crosswind so not a lot of flying going on.
Buchon looks to be coming on quite nicely.

Went to Aeroventure on the way back. Far too many eggbeaters. Glad to see out of 4 complete assembled aeroplanes inside, 3 were proper ones. Vampire, Dove and Chipmunk.

Kind words Dave.
Don’t play often now, can just see the headstocks in the corner.
However, since I’ve been playing since the middle 60s I’m not sure inexperience is a valid excuse.

Ken

No pics. Have 1962 Futurama (Hagstrom), rubbish Korean Tele copy, surprisingly good Korean Les Paul blacktop and rubbish far Eastern Jazz bass with bent neck.

Always wanted a Gibson SG. Even if I could afford one I couldn’t justify it because I’m a crap guitarist.

Seen the model pulse jets, very impressive. I’m not sure they’re actually illegal in the UK but they’re certainly frowned upon. Probably can’t get insurance on them.
There’s a Dutch team that do displays over here.
One major drawback to them is they have only 2 throttle settings, flat-out and stopped.
The Dutch pilot was amazing. The ‘plane was/is a delta with the engine stuck on top. Flies around at 2 – 300 mph for as long as the tank lasts and then glides down to land at his feet. I’ve seen them several times, probably 7 or 8 flights in total and I’ve never seen him even have to take one step to pick the plane up.
I’ve got, somewhere, a set of drawings for a model pulse jet, published in Aeromodeller in the 50s but I could never work out how to make the petal-shaped spring steel inlet valve.

Not browsing with it yet, this old nail of a PC’s got Windows 95 on it. I’ve no intention of ever using XP, don’t believe people need NT for home use.
Set up a laptop to play with Linux and other systems, before loading a tower up.
I use Partition Magic all the time, specifically the DOS boot disc and never had any trouble.
The laptop currently has Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, BeOS 5.04, SuSE Linux 7.2 Pro and Mandrake Linux 9.
Mandrake 9 was certainly a doddle to install but SuSE didn’t cause any problems either.
Just ordered SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro. Seem to have a few issues with KDE2 and Konqueror on the earlier version, not as stable as reputed.
Was going to try OS/2 Warp again as well, which I quite like, but I’ve only got V3 and it doesn’t understand a 20 gig drive.

Biggest problem for me is a culture shock. I came to computers relatively late in life, 40 ish, and have only ever had PCs. No experience of any OSs other than various flavours of DOS and Windows. I would guess that people with more background experience and growing up with computers would get to grips with it easier than me.

Originally posted by Snapper

A dikelslick middle.

I could take an educated guess about center, having seen things written in American before, but I now retire baffled.

Although I’ve never seen one, it’s sounds what I would expect a decontamination building to look like.