Harmonic pressure distribution

[Stephen Ditmore]

Maybe harmonic pressure distribution is what condoms interfere with...

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by Stephen Ditmore

Maybe harmonic pressure distribution is what condoms interfere with...

Only if the 'Rhythm Method' is employed...

[chandler]

How many kids did you say you have Bergalia?

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by chandler

How many kids did you say you have Bergalia?

Just the two Chandler. Girls, apples of my eye. Twenty-five years of salt water seems to have affected the plumbing. Mind you, I was fifty-years-old before siring the first...a late runner, as the racing fraternity say...

[LP]

Then life's been good to you, Bergalia. From your picture, I'd swear you were barely drinking age. Via con Dios.

[artemis]

Originally Posted by learpilot

Then life's been good to you, Bergalia. From your picture, I'd swear you were barely drinking age. Via con Dios.

Nah. It's that good Norse blood!

[yokebutt]

Chandler, I suppose you're right, but on the other hand, without proper definition them words don't mean a thing anyways.

With this kind of claim, you have to be as an uncompromising hard-ass as a physicist. The first clue is that "harmonic pressure distribution" would be an effect of something, and not a technology/system in itself.

A note for Bergalia, damn straight it's the Norse blood, if my great, great, great, etc. grandfather hadn't raped your great, great, great, etc. grandmother, you wouldn't be here now!

[tom kane]

From the book by Nevil Shute..Slide Rule..the Autobiography of an Engineer and the person responsible for all calculations in the building of the airship R100.The value of full power trial lies in the effect it has in disclosing weaknesses in the outer cover of the ship.In the case of the R100 the outer cover of the ship took up a curious wave like formation when the ship was at full speed,which was not evident at crusing speed.These harmonic deflections ran longitudially down the ship from the bow to the stern; they did not move at all.I climbed all over the ship....The building work on R100 finished January 1930.

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by yokebutt

A note for Bergalia, damn straight it's the Norse blood, if my great, great, great, etc. grandfather hadn't raped your great, great, great, etc. grandmother, you wouldn't be here now!

Sorry to disappoint you Yokebutt, but from our family recollection...Your great, great, great, etc. grandfather 'Yoke The Myopic' raped the village dog...It was my great, great, great, etc. grandmother's beard which may have caused his confusion...

[LP]

A cavitating rubber is a scary thought.

But back to the topic. Would harmonic pressure distribution be a close relative of mountain wave?

But no relation of mine.

Van Nostrum's been kind of quiet. Hmmm...

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by tom kane

.The building work on R100 finished January 1930.

Unfortunately, as you no doubt know Tom, the R100 was never put to the test due to the R101 fiasco. Although a 'sister' airship - R101 was designed by a committee, and extensions added, which, plus the rush to transport a Whitehall big-wig (Lord Thomson, if I remember right) on a Colonial tour, led to its downfall over France - with tragic results. R101 was held in its hangar at Cardington in Bedfordshire for several years before being broken up. When I last visited Cardington (great air museum) some 25 years ago - R101 plans and photographs were still on display.
My interest in R101 is vague, it's just that my old dad was due to fly on her, but missed his rail connections at Edinburgh. (God bless the old LMS railway system...or I might not be here....)
Which goes to prove you can't trust designs and planning by bureaucracy.

[marshmat]

Kind of getting off topic here, but let's clear up a bit about the airships.

R100 was a private venture, built by a branch of Vickers. It first flew Dec. 16, 1929, and successfully crossed the Atlantic to Canada in July 1930. The airship was considered a commercial success. It was mothballed in 1930 after the R101 wreck, and was scrapped in 1931.

R101 was the government-built counterpart to R100. Intended as a technology showcase, it had stainless-steel framing and 17-tonne locomotive diesel engines. R101 had a tendency to bump the ground when released from its mast, and was considered by its captains to be essentially impossible to fly. It had its nose ripped to pieces by wind over Beauvais, Fr. in October 1930 and promptly crashed into a hill and burned, killing all but six of the crew. As a result of this crash, R100 was promptly retired and later scrapped.

[Bergalia]

Bow to your superior knowledge Matt. I'm simply going on my old dad's account - best part of 60 odd years ago. He went back to the sea soon afterwards, convinced that flying was an 'unnatural' activity.