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12-10-2007, 03:41 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Vickers Wellington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellington I'm rather intrigued by the Wimpy's maritime work. Certainly a versatile and perhaps underrated aircraft. Another aircraft that hasn't survived well. RAFM and Brooklands are the only complete (ish) examples? Designed by one of Kitty's favourite people - Barnes Wallis. http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub...wilnis/salvage http://uboat.net/allies/aircraft/wellington.htm http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qlx_FoDR8Qg
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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12-10-2007, 03:49 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | The strength of a geodetic structure? Funnily enough, parts of Wellington fuselages have been recovered from their peacetime work as...greenhouses!
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12-10-2007, 03:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Nah, reckon you could. It'd be easy!
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12-10-2007, 04:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Couple of lovely shots of the geodesic design: http://brianamarshall.fotopic.net/p28597387.html http://brianamarshall.fotopic.net/p28597388.html
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12-10-2007, 04:09 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | The old girl, recovered from Loch Ness, is looking good! Kudos to the resto team!
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12-10-2007, 04:26 AM
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Something to do with Wallis, Eden or the Wellington's development? Remember we are only colonials!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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12-10-2007, 04:34 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Though the idea of the geodesic design has been around for a long time, it was first developed properly for buildings and construction just after WW1. A direct link could probably be plotted from then to the Eden Project, but the Wellington bomber brought the potentials of such a design to a much wider audience. So I personally believe (or like to think anyway) that the Wellington played a part in the Eden Project.
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12-10-2007, 04:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Kyt, ever one to draw a long bow... I do like your way of thinking though!
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