"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/14/2020 at 09:09 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/14/2020 at 09:09 • Filed to: planelopnik | 3
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:17 |
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How hard can it be?
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> ttyymmnn
09/14/2020 at 09:26 |
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Tonight on Top Gear, James evaluates aerial photography of the Wehrmacht, Richard... rides in an LST, and I -
build an aeroplane.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:34 |
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Real men don’t RTFM.
Jean Shepherd, the man who gave us Christmas Story , wrote another coming of age story set in the blue collar Midwest titled The Phantom of the Open Hearth . ( The infamous leg lamp makes its first appearance in this film.) There’s scene where a guy has purchased an entire kit house from Sears, and it arrives in numerous box cars. The guy and h is buddies all go down to the the rail yard to help him unload it, but they’re all drunk, start pulling apart the boxes, and then leave when it starts to rain, with the house strewn all over the railroad siding. It looks like the whole movie is on YouTube.
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ttyymmnn
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:36 |
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Would have been a great episode of How It’s Made , since that show should really be titled How It’s Assembled .
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> ttyymmnn
09/14/2020 at 09:38 |
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It’s best for me
when they feature processes for simpler parts
(forging heads and threading fasteners, that kind of thing) although they often don’t.
Roadkilled
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:49 |
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I didn’t know that “unboxing” videos had been around so long.
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Roadkilled
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:49 |
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I didn’t know that “unboxing” videos had been around so long.
user314
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 09:52 |
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Best unboxing video ever....
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user314
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 10:28 |
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“Lads, tonight the three of us are participating in a race. A race to uncrate and assemble a WW2-era Spitfire before another Spit flies from Normandy to London and back”
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“How in the hell are we going to accomplish that?”
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“What?”
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“If the three of us are building our plane, who’s going to fly the other?”
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“Ah, yes. Some say his heart pumps not blood, but 100LL, and that his personal V ne cannot be measured. All we know is, he’s not The Stig, but he is The Stig WW2 Ac e cousin!”
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RacinBob
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/14/2020 at 14:04 |
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I enjoy this because its a reminder that one person’s product is another person’s raw material. It’s not just enough to design a cost effective and good working airplane, you have to also think of the transport, assembly and use of all the way.
One thing I noted was the electrical cables in the wing were of different length so that it was impossible to switch them at the plugs . You can’t install them wrong. It sure beats having them the same length and not realize that they were crossed until after the wing is on.
The Japanese have a name for this. Pok
eyoke. which basically means it can only be assembled correctly, Ever wonder why cars have so many different electrical connectors? It’s so the brake light doesn’t get plugged into the tail light and vece versa....
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> RacinBob
09/14/2020 at 15:03 |
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The P47 field assembly in some ways feels like a mirror image of the M22 Locust light tank, which was designed to be deliverable by glider, but required doing so with the turret off. Landing a tank into a hostile drop zone and needing to find a crane truck to put the turret on is probably the exact opposite of being able to assemble a plane in a friendly field with no special equipment - only manpower. Assembling an air force by truck vs. trying to assemble a ground force via air - the latter is hard enough to start with without making it worse.
On the flip side of easy-to-assemble AAF planes, and a related note that led me to this in the first place, was the story that at the end of the Battle off Samar, one of the Wildcat pilots off an escort carrier landed ashore with copious damage to an outer wing - and having seen a damaged donor on the ground on the
way down, immediately rounded up a Wing Harvesting Posse of ground forces to help him get it
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and had a minimum of connections...
For Sweden
> RacinBob
09/14/2020 at 21:32 |
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Someone probably installed them wrong before the design change