Random Picture Thread

[charmc]

Originally Posted by kach22i

This one is almost as strange...............WTF?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...1jpg-515h.html

"The monarch of Britain and her consort greets the monarch of the US and his consort" I know, that's bad.

[Frosty]

I took a short flight last week after a long period of non flying . Isnt this security thing getting a bit over the top?

[kach22i]

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...25505&page=758

[Trevlyns]

Frosty, nevermind the security, what the heck are the guys in the front two rows doing?

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by Frosty

I took a short flight last week after a long period of non flying . Isnt this security thing getting a bit over the top?

I believe the airline was merely checking that its passengers qualified for Virgin Atlantic status....


I love this week's avatar....

[Bergalia]

Dare I say it Kach - Bizet, Bizet......

OK - I'll explain for all you Americans: 'Carmen' - Bizet (beezay, beezay...)


Might as well be talking to bloody Aussies.....

[charmc]

A new guy in another thread was wondering what the limit was for superstructure height carried the full beam of the vessel. There's one answer.

[kach22i]

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...25505&page=762

[kach22i]

Can this be applied to watercraft to reduce wake and drag?

Boeing makes 'quiet' advances
Noise-reduction efforts pay off at remote airfield in Montana

By JAMES WALLACE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AEROSPACE REPORTER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...uietjet11.html

During tests at the Glasgow site with a 777 in 2001, Boeing found that two engines equipped with chevrons made no more noise than a single engine without the chevron.

Photo Caption:

Technology being tested on this Boeing 777 in Montana is expected to find its way into 787s, due to enter service in 2008, and the 747 Advanced. (August 11, 2005)

Credit: James Wallace/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

[Bergalia]

Royal Navy now concentrates less on circumnavigation - and more on circumcision....

[Bergalia]

Ossama Bin Laden alive and well - and hiding in Dublin....

[kach22i]

For people with nice legs and who are not affraid to show them off.

http://www.full-lotus.com/leisure_products/kayaks.htm




http://madisoncamerunning.com/248/248.html



http://home.att.net/~polar/october.html

Atmospheric conditions allow the low pressure propeller tips to leave corkscrew condensation trails

[safewalrus]

That's a new level of ugliness for the RN eh Bergalia, looks like the top of one ship stuck on the hull of a much smaller one! Not like some of the stuff in our day eh (silly awld bugger) The 'Battles' really looked something and as for (I hate to admit it) 'Tribals' they looked the works too!

[kach22i]

I'm a cone head now.

http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x295/kach22i/

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

... The 'Battles' really looked something and as for (I hate to admit it) 'Tribals' they looked the works too!

Ah the Tribals. My old 'Nubian' below...But typical of the RN, she was 'born' 1962 - and ended her days in 1987 (used as a target...but it took an hour's shooting before she sank...God bless her.)