Mechanical Craziness!! Cold war preferred, anything nuts also gratefully accepted!
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curlysurfer
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Possibly pre-dates The Cold War
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phx/578467547.html
Tell 'im he's dreaming!
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phx/578467547.html
Tell 'im he's dreaming!
Daneel
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not so much crazyness, just expensive and eye-opening.
Blade off test for the Airbus A380: from memory, it's a £9 milion test or something ridiculous like that.. make sure you have the speakers on at 4:00 onwards to listen to the engine spool up.. shite..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA
then sand injestion test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIkk-ZqUzM
and water injestion test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faDWFwDy8-U
and overload emergency braking test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1dv_y_3EK0
yes, that last one is designed to catch fire. The brakes are absorbing 5 MJ of energy every second during the test
Blade off test for the Airbus A380: from memory, it's a £9 milion test or something ridiculous like that.. make sure you have the speakers on at 4:00 onwards to listen to the engine spool up.. shite..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA
then sand injestion test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIkk-ZqUzM
and water injestion test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faDWFwDy8-U
and overload emergency braking test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1dv_y_3EK0
yes, that last one is designed to catch fire. The brakes are absorbing 5 MJ of energy every second during the test
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PINT of Stella. mate!
Many, many Scotches
Postscript to this.This sucks because I was supposed to be on the damn thing right now 'cept the job just got canned (in consolation I get a little jolly down to Angola next week though...)
but anyway, here's the world's largest crane barge The Thialf:
It's capable of lifting up to 14,200 tonnes! Which is almost twice the weight of Scott's wallet!
I'm currently on the Thialf's sister barge, The Hermod. It's pretty much the same size albeit a tad smaller and is quite possibly one of the biggest shit-heaps I've ever worked on! I swear, the owners of this thing must be absolute pikeys, we haven't had milk (fresh or UHT) for almost a fortnight, the lettuce is brown, it's noisy and unless you manage to hijack the bridge's wi-fi (which I may have done) they charge you a fortune for phone and internet access cards!
It's got a pretty bloody big gym though...
Binaural
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I work with a guy who used to work on testing the engines and the stories are, frankly, appalling...
Binaural
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Wind turbines can be pretty spectacular if the brake fails or a blade breaks - check this out when the emergency brake fails...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o&feature=related
Bear in mind that for big turbines each blade can be as long as an A380's wingspan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o&feature=related
Bear in mind that for big turbines each blade can be as long as an A380's wingspan.
Binaural
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Thats pretty normal, a first gen anything is usually pretty avarage. we have a first gen engine in some of our planes, and they dont even last 5000hours. however the previous model has lasted upto 18000 hours.
the 18000hours is with 10-15years of r &d. give it 5-10 years and the engine's will approve 10fold
The Boneyard in question here is Davis Monthan AFB outside Tucson, AZhell yeah! Haha arms races make for wicked aircraft
lol at the car! The aircraft deconstruction yard is called the boneyard and it's location escapes me, in the us, my mind says Edwards afb, but it's not it's elsewhere in the desert I'm pretty sure, it's an extrememly cool place, as a bit of trivia we bought our f1-11s from thre and that is where they shall return shortly
harmonix1234
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Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster
Conception
On 23 June 1942 the German Ministry of Armaments proposed a 1,000 tonne tank – the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte. Adolf Hitler himself expressed interest in the project and go-ahead was granted. In December the same year, Krupp designed an even larger 1,500 tonne tank – the P 1500 Monster.
Purpose
This "land cruiser" was a self-propelled platform for the 800mm Schwerer Gustav artillery piece also made by Krupp – the largest artillery guns ever fired for effect. Their 7 tonne projectiles fired up to 37 km (23 miles) and were designed for use against heavily fortified targets. Given its lack of a traversable gun, it was more of an extremely heavy self-propelled artillery piece.
Spec
The Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster was to be 42 m (138 ft) long, weighing 1500 tonnes, with a 250 mm hull front armor, 4 MAN U-boat (submarine) diesel engines, and an operating crew of over 100 men.
The main armament was to be an 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) railway gun, and with a secondary armament of two 150 mm sFH 18/1 L/30 howitzers and multiple 15 mm MG 151/15 autocannons.
The projected design appears to have been a self-propelled gun rather than a tank, as it lacked a rotating turret or other enclosed structure to protect the crew. It was apparently expected to operate in a similar manner to the original 800mm railroad gun and Karl 600mm self-propelled mortars, launching shells without engaging the enemy with direct fire.
Type Project super-heavy tank
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Specifications
Weight 1,500 t (1,700 ST; 1,500 LT)
Length 42 metres (138 ft)
Width 18 metres (59 ft)
Height 7 metres (23 ft)
Crew 100+
Armor 250 millimetres (9.8 in) (hull front)
Primary
armament 1x 800 mm K (E) gun
Secondary
armament 2x 15cm sFH 18/1 L/30 (howitzer)
Multiple 15 mm MG151/15
Engine Four MAN M9v 40/46 U-boat diesels
2,200 hp
Operational
range Unknown
Speed 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
Conception
On 23 June 1942 the German Ministry of Armaments proposed a 1,000 tonne tank – the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte. Adolf Hitler himself expressed interest in the project and go-ahead was granted. In December the same year, Krupp designed an even larger 1,500 tonne tank – the P 1500 Monster.
Purpose
This "land cruiser" was a self-propelled platform for the 800mm Schwerer Gustav artillery piece also made by Krupp – the largest artillery guns ever fired for effect. Their 7 tonne projectiles fired up to 37 km (23 miles) and were designed for use against heavily fortified targets. Given its lack of a traversable gun, it was more of an extremely heavy self-propelled artillery piece.
Spec
The Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster was to be 42 m (138 ft) long, weighing 1500 tonnes, with a 250 mm hull front armor, 4 MAN U-boat (submarine) diesel engines, and an operating crew of over 100 men.
The main armament was to be an 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) railway gun, and with a secondary armament of two 150 mm sFH 18/1 L/30 howitzers and multiple 15 mm MG 151/15 autocannons.
The projected design appears to have been a self-propelled gun rather than a tank, as it lacked a rotating turret or other enclosed structure to protect the crew. It was apparently expected to operate in a similar manner to the original 800mm railroad gun and Karl 600mm self-propelled mortars, launching shells without engaging the enemy with direct fire.
Type Project super-heavy tank
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Specifications
Weight 1,500 t (1,700 ST; 1,500 LT)
Length 42 metres (138 ft)
Width 18 metres (59 ft)
Height 7 metres (23 ft)
Crew 100+
Armor 250 millimetres (9.8 in) (hull front)
Primary
armament 1x 800 mm K (E) gun
Secondary
armament 2x 15cm sFH 18/1 L/30 (howitzer)
Multiple 15 mm MG151/15
Engine Four MAN M9v 40/46 U-boat diesels
2,200 hp
Operational
range Unknown
Speed 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
harmonix1234
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German Railway Gun
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Bermshot
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This is what I need when I get back to Syd.Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster
Conception
On 23 June 1942 the German Ministry of Armaments proposed a 1,000 tonne tank – the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte. Adolf Hitler himself expressed interest in the project and go-ahead was granted. In December the same year, Krupp designed an even larger 1,500 tonne tank – the P 1500 Monster.
Purpose
This "land cruiser" was a self-propelled platform for the 800mm Schwerer Gustav artillery piece also made by Krupp – the largest artillery guns ever fired for effect. Their 7 tonne projectiles fired up to 37 km (23 miles) and were designed for use against heavily fortified targets. Given its lack of a traversable gun, it was more of an extremely heavy self-propelled artillery piece.
Spec
The Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster was to be 42 m (138 ft) long, weighing 1500 tonnes, with a 250 mm hull front armor, 4 MAN U-boat (submarine) diesel engines, and an operating crew of over 100 men.
The main armament was to be an 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) railway gun, and with a secondary armament of two 150 mm sFH 18/1 L/30 howitzers and multiple 15 mm MG 151/15 autocannons.
The projected design appears to have been a self-propelled gun rather than a tank, as it lacked a rotating turret or other enclosed structure to protect the crew. It was apparently expected to operate in a similar manner to the original 800mm railroad gun and Karl 600mm self-propelled mortars, launching shells without engaging the enemy with direct fire.
Type Project super-heavy tank
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Specifications
Weight 1,500 t (1,700 ST; 1,500 LT)
Length 42 metres (138 ft)
Width 18 metres (59 ft)
Height 7 metres (23 ft)
Crew 100+
Armor 250 millimetres (9.8 in) (hull front)
Primary
armament 1x 800 mm K (E) gun
Secondary
armament 2x 15cm sFH 18/1 L/30 (howitzer)
Multiple 15 mm MG151/15
Engine Four MAN M9v 40/46 U-boat diesels
2,200 hp
Operational
range Unknown
Speed 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
Yes feel sorry for me. Those navy boats were a joke to build.
How close do you think air to air combat is played these days? if your within range of your cannons your doing something very very wrong.
rone
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Fairey Rotodyne. VTOL airliner autogyro thing. Rotor-tip jets powered the rotors and the propellers
and stub wings were enough for forward flight combined with the autogyro effect of the rotors. Eventually scrapped due to the noise it made. Wasn't ever able to be made quiet enough for commercial use. Would love to have seen one in action, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9633v6U0wo
and stub wings were enough for forward flight combined with the autogyro effect of the rotors. Eventually scrapped due to the noise it made. Wasn't ever able to be made quiet enough for commercial use. Would love to have seen one in action, though.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9633v6U0wo
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