Random Picture Thread

[masalai]

If it is like the car - on a par with Harley? your choice. Go the Royal Enfield!

[westlawn5554X]

I like the ole NORTON babe...

[kach22i]

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...25505&page=970


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...25505&page=969

[masalai]

Thanks George, Some mighty fine ships. What happened to the carrier, turned the corner too fast & tipped off all the planes & deck crew???

[safewalrus]

Watch that Queen Victoria she's Jinxed. The Duchess of Dogs Breath did a naming ceremony and the failed to break the bottle (dunno how all she had to do was look at the bloody thing and it would have broken!!)

[charmc]

Great carrier trials picture, George!

Here's another, not quite as dramatic as yours, though. I understand that sea trials protocol includes a 180 degree turn at WOT, somewhere above 36 kts/42 mph. Interesting to think of a typical runabout passing by at 42 mph, then imagine a monster 1000 ft long and 100,000 tons traveling the same speed. Cool.

[masalai]

Jeeeeeeees, very impressive display in fuel use - Aw heck, how many years happy boating could I get for the fuel used for that high speed turn? - - In fuel use see my life out? - & have plenty left over to keep Frosty mobile too (get him out of that marina berth).

[Frosty]

Hey I heard that.

If you must know I am going to ,--well maybe clean the props tomorrow and think about going out next week sometime.--Probably.

[masalai]

We all believe you, but the bookies are offering strange odds????

[Landlubber]

Frosty, please do noy dive in the water near the boat to clean the props, I am sure that there are so many bad "things" in there we may not hear from you again! Send down a local, I believe there are plenty of spares!

[kach22i]

Fantômas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fant%C3%B4mas

# 9 . Fantômas (1964) [4] the first of three films directed by André Hunebelle with Jean Marais as both Fantômas and Fandor, Louis de Funès as Juve and Mylène Demongeot as Fandor's bride, the photographer Hélène. Their tone was generally much more light-hearted than the novels' and the characters were updated in a James Bond-like style including James Bond type gadgets like the flying Citroën DS of Fantômas with retractable wings that converts to an airplane.

[Trevlyns]

George, Just where DO you come up with these photos, lad?

[achipmunk]

very nice.. made me spend some time away from work to day

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Trevlyns

George, Just where DO you come up with these photos, lad?

I sometimes use Google as a quick "spell check" (does not always work as I'm not the only poor speller in the world), then I click "IMAGES" to see what comes up.

Image search on the word "retractable" gave us the flying car.
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From Physicsforms.com someone posted this 90- degree bend air flow AVI (velocity model of turbulent plug flow).

Link to AVI
http://www.cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/~su...180/douga1.avi

Link to original post:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthr...=185436&page=2


Archibase has a series of photos of Hong Kong at different times.
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/01/21/hong...fferent-times/




More here:
http://archibase.net/archinews/13892.html

[charmc]

Hey, George,

Check this out. David Drake, a very good writer of military science fiction, posited a future hovercraft to replace tread driven tanks. His version weighs 170 tons, has a 20 cm plasma cannon main gun, and can hit 100 mph on roads. Power (conveniently) comes from a small fusion reactor

Drake is a good writer; he served around the same time I did, so he has actual military experience. He does his research and pays attention to the details. Many of his stories have elements describing the peculiarities of a main battle tank that is also a hovercraft, which means armored rigid curtains. He has described stopping, turning, and following terrain contours in ways that make sense, given the known properties of hovercraft.