Of interest to WWII airplane fans

Started by Pilgrim, April 14, 2016, 08:56:22 PM

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Pilgrim

Just cleared in our campus newsletter:

http://source.colostate.edu/rare-wwii-propeller-salvaged-csu-research-tunnel-finds-home/

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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

Highlander

... but what seaplane did it come from i wonder...?
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

nofi

on my campus you found sds meetings and iceberg lettuce boycotts. :o
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the mojo hobo

Quote from: Highlander on April 14, 2016, 11:56:23 PM
... but what seaplane did it come from i wonder...?

"the propeller, which came from a Curtiss Electric SC-1 Seahawk plane"

uwe

Ken has become very careful in specifying WW II aircraft in public. All we get these days is a murky "what seaplane I wonder"?

Being mistaken sometimes is fate/statistics, but cowardice and trepidation are the worms which devoureth a man's heart!!!
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Highlander

Just gone from a 6-figure bank balance to a 5 digit debt... I'd call that distracted... ;)
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...