Random Picture Thread

Works fine in fully automatic mode, the manual mode is never used but the car was not available without this so called 'feature' . . .

Cheers,
Angel

 

If I didn't know better, I'd say that they should know better than to know better than their customers . . .

 

Another one of Sea Cloud . . .

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Angel

 

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Speaking of old subs, here's one I found in a parking lot while working in France -

 

She's still there . . . :idea:​

Cheers,
Angel

 

I took the picture around 1993, there was a plaque with a bit of history but I lost the picture - she's the Alose 1904, prototype of the WW1 Naiad class. Alose sounds so much nicer than Shad.

She's now a national monument: about time - I couldn't believe the oldest French submarine was just sitting there unheralded and hidden from view. But she's still sitting in a parking lot: in many countries she would probably be under cover with her very own museum . . .

 

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Here's your plaque . . . from Google Images . . . ‘‘ Alose sous marin ’’

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Below a few from the old box . . .

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‘‘ 1904 - Alose - Naiade-class submarine, Location: Comtex, Marseille, France ’’​

Cheers,
Angel

P.S. - - more here - - translation - -

 

‘‘ ‘96 - 4 - 4 ’’ - - says the pic . . .

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Angel

 

From page 14 of this Comex PDF. - - (in the quote a google translation)

Cheers,
Angel

 

France was the first to use bow planes on a submarine thus vastly improving maneuverability.

 

Getting a little more random... my younger son's contribution to our Halloween decorations. He's home from Korea for a couple of weeks....

 

Marvelous job of your son ​

But not so random, now we're back at the previous subject . . . ‘‘driving a stick’’ . . .

borrowed joke . . ​

Cheers,
Angel

 

The submarine plaque was a bit more legible in my photo: it will turn up one day no doubt . . .

That confuses me as I thought I finished in Marseille in February of 1996. The last French immigration stamp on my old passport - I never throw anything away - is in Feb of 1994 which also is what I remember, but my memory isn't reliable and even French immigration guys have bad days . . .

 

The Quadrofoil: Electric Hydrofoil Sportscar for the Water
Written May 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm by Kristie Bertucci
http://www.gadgetreview.com/2012/05/the-quadrofoil.html