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Canute
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Nice video. Gives a good understanding of what it took to keep a steam engine running. One reason for dieselization. -
Cabbie, here's one brand from Loctite: https://www.loctiteproducts.com/en/products/fix/super-glue/loctite_super_glueultragelcontrol.html
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Denis, most modern fixed wing a/c have retractable refueling equipment. USAF favors doors to receptacles in the body, most other airforces (including naval forces) favor a probe on the receiver and a drogue (basket) on the tanker. Same for helos. I think the USAF version stems from the 50s and Gen Curtis LeMay. Control and use of tanker assets. Blades better droop, means they are flexible. It's like wings flexing; they better or the wings break off.
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That probe sticking out front does several functions. It is part of the pitot static system for airspeed. The fins are for angle of attack (AOA) and I suspect sideslip for the helo. Looking at Soviet/Russian jets, they all appear to have similar probes to the one on the Hind. A simple yet reliable system. We had a small cone shaped protrusion on the left side of the Phantom's nose, which was the AOA probe. The AOA gave us an audio signal as we approached stall condition. If the audio didn't get our attention, the frontseater got a foot massage as additional reinforcement. The right rudder pedal shook to get his attention.
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That's a bummer. Good luck chasing that down.
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There are rubber filled CAs available. Helps reduce the shearing issues of CA.
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Pretty nifty looking flying boat. And PE, too. This will be a beauty.
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OC, we always went to RAF Alconbury. Easier to get to London, catching an HST at Huntington. Good times.
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Nice, quarter inch scale Sundowners Phantom. They did some innovative work in the air to air arena, back in the 70s. We USAF Phantom drivers copied a lot of their stuff. I'll be watching that build with great interest. And a very nice job on the Fox 8, Slog. Only saw a few back when I was in SEA.
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DD-245 was the first US ship lost in the Battle of the Atlantic, torpedoed in October 1941.
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Very pretty lake. I cruised in my flight of Phantoms over that lake once upon a time. No summertime traffic, although we had to evade a seaplane. Well, it was see and avoid.
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Northwest Shortline catered to the model railroaders quite a bit. They turned out better wheels, replacement gears, drive train components and their tool line. They were primarily a machine tool line, but did have this hobby side. The owners had been in the market to sell out and retire. So far only their machine tool line has sold. The hobby side is still available, for a price. MicroMark got into the NWSL action with their cutting/sanding tools.
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Nice views up in the mountains. And even better with the clarity. We get morning fogs in the Smokies, hence that name. The mist hanging in the trees looks like smoke. Track gauge(space between the rails) looks to be standard spacing of 4'8". Most logging roads tended to build at 3 foot gauge, quicker to lay that track and cheaper to build. They'd use tree trunks for ties, since they didn't expect them to last more than the time it took to harvest the wood. Like Mark said, it's a yard engine or "goat". Not big/heavy enough to haul more than a small handful of cars on flat track.
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Some of the German bombers were used over water. See the FW200 Condor and JU188 paint schemes. True most fighters didn't spend much time over water.
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White is translucent, so you need multiple coats. Like painting anything yellow or red. Using a light gray primer would help some, but translucent colors like those are a bear to do well. Looking good, Denis. I remember building this eons ago and mixing up a gray blue deck color. I thought it was wrong, but what did we know back then.
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Well done, Denis. 👍 And yeah, we tend to add a little DNA to our builds.
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Denis, the wood load is turning out great. Superb job!
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I think they will be ME 109Ts. Surprised at the low elevation of the island.
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Denis, if you have azaleas, the cut off branches make good "logs" for the tender. Let them dry out if they're recently cut. Guys use them in HO scale pulpwood cars; in that scale they are about 4-5 feet. In this scale, they'd be good for the fuel wood.
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Yes, Carl, they are rangefinders. Most German heavy cruiser and bigger had them. And they do look like teed up golf balls.
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Denis, they should connect some outlets on the bottom of the water cistern of the tender and some water injectors on the engine. One injector on each side. Both engineer and fireman had control of the injector on their side. The fireman's job was to keep his fire hot and the water level set correctly. In hilly terrain, an engineer might get worried about water levels and pump more water into the engine. Steam was made in the space above the firebox. The problem with that was the fresh water was colder than what was already there, so the steam pressure could drop and the engine would slow down.
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Glen, I'm going to follow along, too. ACW ironclads have been of interest to me for a while.
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US and Japanese carriers used wood decking. RN went armored pretty early. The kamikaze attacks off Okinawa disabused the USN of wood decks.
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