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by **Sniper1946** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:30 pm

I found this a while back, and I thought it had good content of Interest, some need auto translation...available Case Studies
http://www.massviolence.org/All-Contrib ... rubrique=7

by **Kruska** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:42 pm

This thread is placed in regards to the "Finest British Aircraft of WWII"

the Hawker Tempest

Since my first Airfix model of a Hawker Tempest, I always loved that bird - and it might still have a chance to become my all over favourite fighter of WWII.

Not an Airfix but ... :thumpsup:

: F O B.F. Miller, No 501 Squadron.jpg (124.22 KiB) Viewed 67 times

http://www.hawkertempest.se/

"Reaching Newchurch airfield at 480 mph I held "RB" down to 20 ft from the runway and then pulled her up to a 60 ° climb holdin [...]

by **dazzerjeep** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:56 pm

A railgun is an electrically powered electromagnetic projectile launcher based on similar principles to the homopolar motor. A railgun comprises a pair of parallel conducting rails, along which a sliding armature is accelerated by the electromagnetic effects of a current that flows down one rail, into the armature and then back along the other rail.[1]

The armature may be an integral part of the projectile, but it may also be configured to accelerate a separate, electrically isolated or non-con [...]

by **Heinrich** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:50 am

The story below was originally published in Dutch on Ronald Scholtes blog and to make it more accesible for a larger audience 'Chrome' translated into english ..
His great memories appered here originally : http://www.onzeplek.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?pageid=1529
Unfortunately there wasnt much sense to simply link to it as our readers are international and the story too good to remain limited to Dutch languaged readers only ..i do not necessarily agree with all his end [...]

by **otomo68** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:14 pm

marine installing a torpedo in a U-BOOT

the U-47

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