Pagetslady
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I have no idea how I found this old post I certainly never look past the first page unless I followed an old link from somewhere else
Liferaft kites
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RJJ
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Sea-Fever
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Note to self..... re-visit this in 2033 and add comments on the history of kites.
AntarcticPilot
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See post 12! But congratulations on your great-great-grandfather; he was the inspiration for many of the pioneers of powered flight, including the Wright Brothers, the Voisin Brothers and many others.
biscuit
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Brilliant thread, from which I now drift: my dad brought a natty Heliograph home from the war. About 6 " square, made of mirror finish polished steel, with a hole in the centre and a sighting device, ( basically a stick with a hole in it) on a short piece of string attached to the bottom corner, all in a neat canvas bag.
To me, as a kid, a source of much pleasure, but in the days of morse code, a state of the art personal communicator, probably used since ancient times.
I believe they were once standard emergency kit in ship's lifeboats, perhaps they still are?
To me, as a kid, a source of much pleasure, but in the days of morse code, a state of the art personal communicator, probably used since ancient times.
I believe they were once standard emergency kit in ship's lifeboats, perhaps they still are?
Blue Sunray
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Certainty still found in issued SERE kits for land based forces.