Lakesailor
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Oh, for [--word removed--] sake. Why are you all criticising the journalists.
They are only journalists. What would they know......
They are only journalists. What would they know......
YM fails its history GCSE
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Malish
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journalism.. the second oldest profession
DownWest
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Dr. Diesel's original patent for compression ignition used coal dust. Back to mentioning the war... Junkers used diesel engins, I think in some versions of the Ju88?
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peterb
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Dr. Diesel's original patent for compression ignition used coal dust. Back to mentioning the war... Junkers used diesel engins, I think in some versions of the Ju88?
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I can't find any reference to the Ju88 using diesels, but the Ju86 certainly did. That was the aircraft developed as a high altitude bomber, against which the Spitfires Mks VI and VII were developed. It was a diesel-powered Ju 86R and a modified Spitfire IX which had the highest recorded combat of WWII; at 43,500 ft over Southampton on 12 September 1942. Several German flying boat designs also used diesels.
Dr. Diesel's original patent for compression ignition used coal dust. Back to mentioning the war... Junkers used diesel engins, I think in some versions of the Ju88?
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I can't find any reference to the Ju88 using diesels, but the Ju86 certainly did. That was the aircraft developed as a high altitude bomber, against which the Spitfires Mks VI and VII were developed. It was a diesel-powered Ju 86R and a modified Spitfire IX which had the highest recorded combat of WWII; at 43,500 ft over Southampton on 12 September 1942. Several German flying boat designs also used diesels.
peterb
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Oh, for [--word removed--] sake. Why are you all criticising the journalists.
They are only journalists. What would they know......
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Maybe because they make themselves such easy targets. In the late '40s, just after the war, peple were avid for information about aircraft developments. Several papers sent reporters to the RAE Staff Mess (outside the RAE boundary) to see what scraps they could gather. One of them, having had no luck, was pleased to be asked "I suppose you wouldn't be interested in gremlins?" "They don't exist, do they?" "Oh, yes, in fact one of our pilots photographed one sitting on his wingtip recently. I might be able to get you a copy."
The facilities of RAE Photographic Department were duly put to use in an early form of Photoshop, and in the following day's paper the front page had a photograph of a pixey-like creature sitting on the wingtip of a Vampire. There was hell to pay at the RAE, but no-one ever found out who did it (or owned up).
Oh, for [--word removed--] sake. Why are you all criticising the journalists.
They are only journalists. What would they know......
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Maybe because they make themselves such easy targets. In the late '40s, just after the war, peple were avid for information about aircraft developments. Several papers sent reporters to the RAE Staff Mess (outside the RAE boundary) to see what scraps they could gather. One of them, having had no luck, was pleased to be asked "I suppose you wouldn't be interested in gremlins?" "They don't exist, do they?" "Oh, yes, in fact one of our pilots photographed one sitting on his wingtip recently. I might be able to get you a copy."
The facilities of RAE Photographic Department were duly put to use in an early form of Photoshop, and in the following day's paper the front page had a photograph of a pixey-like creature sitting on the wingtip of a Vampire. There was hell to pay at the RAE, but no-one ever found out who did it (or owned up).
JKay
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Sasol in South Africa are at the forefront of this technology today and is used to produce 40% of SA's fuel needs
Some say the technology came straight from Germany /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Some say the technology came straight from Germany /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
JKay
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Like the one in my Lincolnshire Avatar /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
halcyon
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It was even funnier at the time. Pulverised fuel was not well known at the time, and when it was announced that the Germans had planned a coal-fired aircraft
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There was a programme on TV recetly about the German WW2 Vortex gun. It produced a pressure wave to bring down aircraft, one part of the fuel was coal dust.
Brian
It was even funnier at the time. Pulverised fuel was not well known at the time, and when it was announced that the Germans had planned a coal-fired aircraft
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There was a programme on TV recetly about the German WW2 Vortex gun. It produced a pressure wave to bring down aircraft, one part of the fuel was coal dust.
Brian