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Remember Prince Phillip saying “ that electrical board looks like it was made by Indians “ ? Cheers.
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GBNews, Trump was being interviewed. CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek …… Cheers.
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Had a WhatsApp earlier so had a look on the news and it’s breaking on tv news. Seems like Iran may have a nuclear weapon and the Israelis are going to take it out. Non- essential personnel evacuated from American Embassy in Iraq. Cheers.
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News coming in Israel about to hit Iran, American airbases in the Middle East are evacuating non-essential personnel. Not a lot of detail, but something seems to be happening. Cheers.
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Just my own opinion, but I think Trump bringing RFK Jnr on board was a political master stroke. The Kennedy’s are Democratic icons, many people still revere the memory of John and Robert. For Trump to bring RFK into government allows him to imply that HIS government is a “broad church”. Or maybe I’m just being cynical and RFK really is the best choice to be Americas Health Secretary ? Cheers,
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Spring cabbages finally forming heads; I’ve been using the leaves as “spring greens”, fried in butter and salt & pepper. Cheers. -
Well over 50 years ago there used to be a gypsy family appear at a lane near Gosforth park , just outside of Newcastle. These weren’t “travellers”, I’d guess they were true Romany ; the man had dark, swarthy skin , green eyes and a sort of ginger Afro ! The woman was a caracature of the old gypsy women that use to come round selling pegs and “ lucky heather “ The kids were barefoot , scruffy, dressed in rags and looked at you with a mixture of bewilderment and distrust. They had an assortment of chickens and dogs, usually Yorkshire terrier and Jack Russells in tea chests, ( r
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No mate, my pals go from Newcastle and have stops at Corbridge, Hexham and Alston on the uplands, all downhill from there. Plenty of game and fishing on that route ! LOL ! Cheers.
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Typp Ratcher who wrote for Countryman’s Weekly had the contract from the council to remove the motors and caravans that were left. Nice little earner scrapping them . Cheers.
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Out the back window now; Cheers.
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Reflection from the setting sun going through earths atmosphere. That’s one answer , the other is “ how the f**k do I know “ ? Cheers.
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I’d leave it, but I’m no expert in tomatoes Cheers.
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It could be true, imagine the damage if a jet engine was started with a socket inside it ? Or the cost of the strip down to retrieve a dropped socket ? Cheers.
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See, your uncle Charts looks after your education ! LOL ! Cheers.
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It’s more like a refined paraffin, but they all come from the same source, oil , just refined to different levels. Cheers.
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Well, not quite; the petrol engine is , normally , reciprocating, while the turbine is rotating. Remember the Wankel rotating engine in the Mazda ? That was a sort of a combination of the two. The turbine IS an internal combustion engine, like the petrol and diesel engines , but operates on a different principle. The “fan” is driven by combusted fuel and pushes the heated gas into a compressor or a series of compressors compressing the gasses and heating them even more, creating thrust.
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Yes they can . Turbines don’t have combustion chambers as such, they have igniters but if Jet A is compressed to a high pressure in the combustion chamber of a diesel engine it will combust. Diesel engines are pretty pointless for aircraft because, as I said, the power to weight ratio isn’t as good as a petrol engine, but it doesn’t mean they couldn’t be used. Cheers.
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Because it’s a series of time frame stills and the earth doesn’t have a permanent dark side , but the moon does ? Just my guess , Francie, I could be wrong and don’t want a debate, mate . Cheers.
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Mate, a diesel engine doesn’t necessarily need to run on diesel. They can run on Jet A-1 , the fuel that most aircraft run on, which doesn’t suffer from paraffin waxing. Good try, but “must try harder”as your school reports used to say ! LOL ! Cheers.
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Interesting about the fuel . My dad worked at Spadeadam in Cumbria where the Blue Streak rocket was being developed. He was just a maintenance man, not actually involved in the rocket. Anyhow, the Blue Streak was intended as a return strike ICBM in case of a Soviet nuclear strike. Problem was it was fueled by a mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen. The kerosene was onboard but the liquid oxygen could only be added at the last minute to prevent it from freezing . It took about five minutes to add it to the kerosene in the fuel tanks, and in the event of a Soviet nuclear strike the
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I would say because a diesel engine is , because of the much higher compression needed for ignition, far heavier than a petrol engine of similar power. Cheers.
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Same technology, the inlet air control, used on aircraft jet engines. Cheers.
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Would the moveable nose cone be a VIVG , ( Variable Inlet Vane Guide ) used basically to control the speed of the air entering the engine compared to the actual air speed . We overhauled these in house using calibration equipment to simulate flight conditions. Cheers.
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You guys will know more about the space stuff than me if that’s what you’re interested in. I’ve been retired for 21 years and the aircraft type I last had recurrent training on is obsolete and out of service now ! LOL ! I know technology has come on greatly and I’d be considered a bit of a Luddite now ! Cheers.
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I asked about airports, because Concorde was restricted to airports with ground air-start facilities as it didn’t have an auxiliary power unit , presumably to save weight or maybe a balance problem, I don’t know. When the airline I worked for bought three MD 11 freighters and two 747 freighters , they had to have additional landing gear fitted because of the runway constraints because of the widly varying temperatures in the Middle East. There’s a lot more to air travel than most people could imagine ! LOL ! Cheers.
