Greatest aviation myth this site “de-bunked”.

[Shortround6]

The real trick was the 880fps ironing board cannon and keeping the ironing boards stable until impact

 

[pbehn]

The real trick was the 880fps ironing board cannon and keeping the ironing boards stable until impact

Nothing is ever as simple as you think it will be. Did you never think why an ironing board is pointed at one end? Well its nothing to do with shirts, I can tell you that fore certain.

 

[buffnut453]

Not "for certain"..."for a FACT!"

 

[XBe02Drvr]

A milk churn was originally used to make butter from milk, when they started transporting milk by rail it was found that the "churn" was more stable than the "pail". So they started using churns to transport milk and the name stuck.

In the small farming community where I grew up (before bulk tanks), the farmers shipped their milk in cans, or "churns", if you will, that looked like this:

Late 30's era 10 gallon milk jug.

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When the collection truck had visited all of the eight dairy farms, it headed off with its load of butterfat rich Jersey milk over the twelve miles of rutted, potholed, boulder-strewn dirt road to the creamery. On arrival the milk inside might as well have been in a churn, unless the farmer had filled each can right to the tippy-top to prevent sloshing. There was no percentage in shipping partial cans, so the overage was sold to non-farming neighbors like us, and we made our own butter with an ancient, bulletproof Sunbeam electric mixer. When the cows hit pasture in the springtime after being penned up all winter, the butter changed from a bland tasting beige to a robust, mouth watering, brilliant yellow.
Cheers,
Wes

 

[pbehn]

In the small farming community where I grew up (before bulk tanks), the farmers shipped their milk in cans, or "churns", if you will, that looked like this:

When the collection truck had visited all of the eight dairy farms, it headed off with its load of butterfat rich Jersey milk over the twelve miles of rutted, potholed, boulder-strewn dirt road to the creamery. On arrival the milk inside might as well have been in a churn, unless the farmer had filled each can right to the tippy-top to prevent sloshing. There was no percentage in shipping partial cans, so the overage was sold to non-farming neighbors like us, and we made our own butter with an ancient, bulletproof Sunbeam electric mixer. When the cows hit pasture in the springtime after being penned up all winter, the butter changed from a bland tasting beige to a robust, mouth watering, brilliant yellow.
Cheers,
Wes

Churns used when I was a kid were very tall and narrow like gas cylinders, I presume to actually stop the milk churning inside, as you describe.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I went ahead and moved the P-51D vs. Spitfire IX discussion to its own thread.

P-51D vs. Spitfire IX

 

[ODonovan]

...actually,
4) Airplanes don't drive, they taxi.

Don't be too sure about that.

Nowdays, they don't taxi as much. It's cheaper to Uber, at least until they get enough Lyft.

-Irish

 

[herman1rg]

Don't be too sure about that.

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Nowdays, they don't taxi as much. It's cheaper to Uber, at least until they get enough Lyft.

-Irish

I see what you did there...

 

[Shortround6]

you hold his coat, I'll get his hat

 

[vikingBerserker]

Have you ever stepped into in the middle of a conversation and feel like you've missed a lot?

Thread Title: "Greatest aviation myth this site "de-bunked"
What I learned: How to make butter

God, I love this site!

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Thread Title: "Greatest aviation myth this site "de-bunked"
What I learned: How to make butter

God, I love this site!

Learning is a ubiquitous experience.

 

[SaparotRob]

"Knowledge is good."
Emil Faber

 

[pbehn]

Have you ever stepped into in the middle of a conversation and feel like you've missed a lot?

Thread Title: "Greatest aviation myth this site "de-bunked"
What I learned: How to make butter

God, I love this site!

You also learned how not to make butter, after that building an airplane is a matter of slotting an ironing board though a milk jug and putting a fan somewhere.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

How not to make butter: Don't put Jersey milk in a bulk tanker truck. Vermont used to be Jersey country, but now it's all black-and-whites, except for organic raw milk dairies which don't ship their milk. Besides, since cholesterol became the boogyman, the butterfat premium has been eliminated from milk checks.

 

[SaparotRob]

Have we forgotten the great Spam recipes? See post #75 on.

 

[buffnut453]

Have we forgotten the great Spam recipes? See post #75 on.

I was trying to forget them...thanks for the reminder, NOT!!!

 

[SaparotRob]

I was trying to forget them...thanks for the reminder, NOT!!!

Sorry.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

Have we forgotten the great Spam recipes? See post #75 on.

I was trying to forget them...thanks for the reminder, NOT!!!

My dad loved the stuff. I was force fed it to the extent of revulsion. Makes my stomach churn when I hear the word or get a whiff of it. Bleah!

 

[SaparotRob]

I saw a cartoon from WW2 in which a starving Japanese soldier is surrendering. He asks the G.I.s to PLEASE NOT to be fed honorable American delicacy Spam. The cartoon itself might be inappropriate now.

 

[Airframes]

I an hear Vikings approaching .....................