Leave the asagais out of it D...Originally Posted by dangerous
Anyhoo, the USA is a whole lot bigger than a lot of us Kiwis can comprehend, I rode past a few similar sort of elephants grave-yards over there...unbelievable...
Loud and Uncouth
Leave the asagais out of it D...
Anyhoo, the USA is a whole lot bigger than a lot of us Kiwis can comprehend, I rode past a few similar sort of elephants grave-yards over there...unbelievable...
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Hardcore Punk
I suppose it costs a shitload of $$$$ to guard the things too.
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Forum whore
Some info on the Rukuhia (Hamilton) boneyard after WW2:http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi...nt&thread=6838
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Probably part of the shit they were still paying for up until 2006
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Una Storia Italiana
It is interesting what is/was about in NZ.
I remember a doco on the Auckland heads where the very 1st ever Boeing ww1 fighters were hiden, aparently still there somewere in tunnles and caves. In the doco a woman was interviewd that remembers being taken down there for a screw and decribed what she saw.
Another such cave big enough to house aircraft is on the cashmere hill over looking Wigram air base. Now used by the university for verious things I havent ever seen them but have a mate that has.
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Well, sort of.
It is an operational Air Force base so normal guarding will be in place.
Oddly, an A-10 squadron is based there.
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Forum whore
The North Head and Boeing story is quite interesting: http://www.thehijackofboeingone.com/...es/Page342.htm
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Cracroft cavern, It isn't big enough for that, they used to do tours through it but when we last inquired they had pulled the pin on it
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Que?
Slightly off topic. I see Wellington was in good form yesterday, highlight at 6:09.
Una Storia Italiana
The Bristol sleave again, listen to the thing and wait till the end when he opens it up... like the mega lumpy lumpy cam thing
and for some thing different check out the workings on this, now thats mechanics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBMsdXGOm5A speaking of which who knows what the flat 24cyl engine is at the Wigram musume is? I thought it was Grumman but I cant find on you tube.
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Hardcore Punk
Fark me thats cool. I want one in my driveway to wake the neighbours up with early on sunday mornings.
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sem fiddy pilot
It's a Napier Sabre engine from a Hawker Typhoon. They are basically two flat twelves driving a common output shaft.
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sem fiddy pilot
The Napier Sabre engine was also sleeve valve. Although it is easy to think that this arrangement is over-complicated, the sleeve valve is more efficient than poppet type valves. No hot spots, and nothing in the way to inhibit gas flow.
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Loud and Uncouth
Naked arse D. it sounds just like me F100 at 'idle' - and a fair bit like it under load.
Farkme, maybe I've got a rare-as sleeve-valve Ford V8??
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Thats the one... been you tubing and there seems to be no footage of any existing runnersThere is a few Napier engines that look like V8's but not the Sabre
I was told and this is asuming I wasnt miss lead that there is room enough for small fighter aircraft in the Cracroft/Cashmear hill... a mates father was (now retired) high up in the uni, and did those tours and a lot of work in the tunnels, he said people were never showen into the bigger caves as they had a lot of equipment in there something to do with star gazing or something.
yet you would think the friction of the turning sleaves would create great heat, but yes duel ports no obstructions of flow in or out.. so why was it never devloped a car engine of this design, like why did the Nips never build a 2 cycle diesel for cars instead of the slow old diesels we have.
Bit like this one TNaked arse D. it sounds just like me F100 at 'idle' - and a fair bit like it under load.
Farkme, maybe I've got a rare-as sleeve-valve Ford V8??
or maybe this is more you
cheers DD
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