Hi From Uk

The pictures I've seen of the locks (in the UK) included the group of hovercraft going through them (they float too).

If I come across the pictures I'll post them.........might take a while.

EDIT.........found some pictures.

Can you read French at all?
http://perso.orange.fr/rhonealpesmotonautique/


http://perso.orange.fr/rhonealpesmotonautique/


They go through much smaller rivers of course, and over rapids too.

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Speedymartin wrote back:

 

Thanks Kach

That is really cool and would love ago, i have joined the uk forum for hovercrafts, speaking of you tube i have done a few music boating videos, hope you like them, ps,, this is a great site, nice members too.


One for Xmas

http://canalsandboats.informe.com/forum/a-winters-tale-the-leek-arm-caldon-canal-dt2021.html

A canal and boat one.

http://canalsandboats.informe.com/forum/boats-and-canals-your-my-no1-dt2017.html

Have a great weekend everyone.

 

I hate to be a bore but I think your average howitzer of that caliber is actually 105mm (all the ones I've seen and used were) - the shells wouldn't fit you gun matey

 

I think you'll find that my mate Lazey is using the Australian 'mm' measurements - in which case a 104mm would fit a 105mm howitzer to perfection. You forget that bathwater in the southern hemisphere exits the plughole in the opposite direction; the effect of 'El Nino'; and obviously haven't taken into account the devaluation of the rupee....

 

Except of course the Chinese make theirs 106mm so that their shells will fit their guns but not ours, whilst our shells will also fit their guns - maybe not as effective but they work!

Todays useless piece of information, unless of course your Chinese military - or fighting them!!! and if all else fails they chuck bags of rice at you (possibly the most dangerous shipborne cargo in the world, next to 'umans, but that's another story)

 

How ya doing Walrus - what are you doing up at this time of day (it's 10am Saturday morning here in NSW...well past your bedtime in the UK surely).
But on useless information - How about the 'Puckle Gun' - fired square shells against the 'infidel' and 'round' shells against 'civilised enemy'...

Rice by the way was a useful weapon in the 'Malayan Campaign' - before your time my boy. But 'we' Brits used to scatter slivers of bamboo (indigestible) in sacks of rice which we then allowed the 'bandits' to capture...assuming they would die with stomach cramping agony at a later date. 'Perfidious Albion' indeed.

 

What are you doing on the 30Nov Berg?

 

Dans l'ans dix neuf soixante-dix je commandais un compagnie de mortars de 107mm.

Mine's bigger than any of yours!

 

If all goes to plan Frosty...I shall be dressed in my 'plaid' frock with furry frontispiece...making a thorough nuisance of myself, along with the remnants of the local pipe band - at roughly midnight - outside the Parliament Building in Canberra. This will be followed by a synchronised vomiting session in Lake Burley Griffin, urinating against the American Embassy walls, inquiring loudly of the German Embassy "Ooo won the bloody war then..." and attempting to order 'five Number 27's and easy on the souy sauce,' at the Chinese Embassy...probably rounded off by a ride in a white car with flashing lights and uniformed chauffer...

The usual St Andrew's celebration in fact my wee chum. A annual event which so endears us Scots to the rest of the world...

And yourself ? How will you celebrate the birth of civilisation ?

 

ferkin bejazuzz, where did that 040 inch go.

 

hey Chas, would YOU like a trip , par les canals, Seine, vers Marseilles? vite, mon ami,

 

Challenge for Bergalia

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If all goes to plan Frosty...I shall be dressed in my 'plaid' frock with furry frontispiece...making a thorough nuisance of myself, along with the remnants of the local pipe band - at roughly midnight - outside the Parliament Building in Canberra.

This cannot go unchallenged Max - I DARE you to post a picture of yourself so attired, on or after 1 December...

 

As they say on TV cookery programmes, Trev - here's one I prepared earlier....

 

Hell! Bergalia keep that posting until the furst of April if you please Sir! When ye can tickle the ladies (English version not Scots) properly!

 

Max I prseume you mean the Malaysian campaing against the 'Chicoms' rather than the mad syphaletic gentleman Sukharno?