Recent content by razor1uk

Compared to the few other recent posts above (of which I wish you better health luck and smiles), this is chump-change. After a long break, my apartment buildings computer room has re-opened, complete with a new server protection system that restricts near enough everything - no videos of...

lol Wayne, that one was surely for some poor human on this Earth in the last 60 years a real experience I'd bet... but perhaps not a typical 'Kodak Moment'.

I like your honest antipodean assessment of EU suppliers Parsifal, you can add the some of the educated UK's civilians squaddies opinions to some of what you hint at bad kit too, they say one thing, and it does at least 2 things less than envisaged it should/could/sold as ..why else do we drink...

Since the end of the coldwar, many militaries have downsized, have mothballed or scrapped systems, and also after the bankers crisis, and many countries own future opinions, forces are weaker than they were. When the remaining edge is only tech and skill after numbers have been cut, then the...

No, fact and figures are not available in the UK due to information restrictions from the DoD MoD about specific info apart formthose already shared upon the Lockheed Martin website, which could be suggested as possibly truthful, yet are unable to be cross checked reliably. ..its my opinion...

I keep looking at this thread from time to time, and I have yet to feel 10% better about this bird in any variation except the proposed conventional T/L version, nor its abilities being able to match the marketing hype that was spieled to investors/states/nations before the greatest monetary...

I saw a borderline joke in the General Chat in World of Tanks the other day; I apologise for its dark humourous play on words, I'll get my coat now before it (or as they say in WoT I'll get in my Tank - sounds of running feet, and the clang of the hatches shutting and engines starting up)

Simple excellent and beautiful pictures, comments and info's too :), thank you Wayne family, and Shinpachi too for relevant details/links and insights too. ..Tammiya produced the rear fuz!? (sorry I am typing slightly humourous, aghast and yet curious about that); I take it from metal than...

Slightly off topic or belated, my musing on the 2 engines.. Considering that that most jet engines are designed to cost and certainly mostly for civilian models, the combustor/turbine section, and the compressor casings are designed to keep debris inside until they leave the nozzle of the...

270cc, mmm, a possibly extravagant go-cart motor size compactness then, just would need a gearbox or moped style centrafugel belt and pulley system... sorry thinking of cart usuages...

I think you need to a 'P' to the beggining of that FBJ lol 8) ..it looks like that ticket certainly wasn't big enough to do its secondary role* effectively. (* for wiping, not as a 'napkin') *at the restaurant, a couple are waitng to be show to their table* "...ah, *breathes in* I can smell the...

Good news, but shouldn't the delegation main 'commeration' be in Taiwan, where the KMT still are, not with the PRC, but it is true about both/all Chinese sides admiring their exploits just the same. - I just don't agree with the PRC using it to make positive feelings so they can do a 'Sochi'...

Sorry for the extremely late reply, as far as i can tell from 262 videos, and data, the Riedel could spin upto 10,000 rpm, maybe much higher upto around 15,000 rpm - they were reduction geared down to the starter dog gear, before the even more reduced gearing on to the engines starter drive ring...

Isn't there a 50's/60's detailed long article upon the coal foam, including history, development proposed usages etc, somewhere in the massive depths of the engine archive?- I think it was related to the Skoda Ramjet project - certainly irember Skoda being part of the files name, but it is...

As Shortrounds suggested, I think the time of year/seasonal effects could also be a factor along with what region mission that A/C was usually in/on, as to if the aircraft fitters/ground crew were told to take off or put on spinners for A/C's that could have them. I'd imagine that a tropical...