Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[omgus]

Random fact I know about overland trains. A Scrapped overland train carriage provided the wheels for Bigfoot the Monster truck in the beginning.

[JudgeMental]

dvs_dave said:

He has a ghoust standing next to him

[nelly1]

JudgeMental said:

dvs_dave said:

He has a ghoust The Stig standing next to him

[KaraK]

nelly1 said:

JudgeMental said:

dvs_dave said:

He has a ghoust The Stig standing next to him

It kind of looks like they are holding hands.. awww bless!

[shakotan]

omgus said:

Random fact I know about overland trains. A Scrapped overland train carriage provided the wheels for Bigfoot the Monster truck in the beginning.

Bigfoot 7, to be precise, which now lives in the Fun Spot USA theme park in Kissimmee, FL.

Edited by shakotan on Wednesday 14th March 11:27

[ralphrj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_pro...

The process that was developed to produce cheaper bread in less time. 80% of bread sold in the UK uses this method.

[anonymous-user]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bedford_(athlet...

'he did run the first London Marathon in 1981 but as a bet'

[vonuber]

A relatively unknown plane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_234

[kiteless]

German WW2 Rail Guns

Fired 800mm diameter shells, with an effective distance of 39km

[Negative Creep]

vonuber said:

A relatively unknown plane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_234

The Luftwaffe certainly had some remarkable designs. Luckily for us, political infighting saw them make a large number of designs in small numbers or not at all, as opposed to concentrating on one of two designs

[vonuber]

Negative Creep said:

The Luftwaffe certainly had some remarkable designs. Luckily for us, political infighting saw them make a large number of designs in small numbers or not at all, as opposed to concentrating on one of two designs

Indeed, and not rushing the 262 into production faster (or focusing on improving the engines earlier) certainly helped a lot as well.

[Negative Creep]

vonuber said:

Negative Creep said:

The Luftwaffe certainly had some remarkable designs. Luckily for us, political infighting saw them make a large number of designs in small numbers or not at all, as opposed to concentrating on one of two designs

Indeed, and not rushing the 262 into production faster (or focusing on improving the engines earlier) certainly helped a lot as well.

That said, we could have had jet fighters far sooner if it were not for official indifference.

[dmulally]

Very OT but what difference would they have made to the outcome? Or would they just have conflicted heavier losses on the allied air forces?

[Baryonyx]

Very broadly, they may have been able to give Germany the edge in air superiority, had they been developed early enough and constructed quickly enough, and mobilised quickly and effectively to take advantage of the jet fighter's strengths before the allies were able to reverse engineer them.

Consider the effect that a jet powered Luftwaffe could have had in batting off England's air defences! Ultimately though, this subject is really subject to the most fantastical speculation as the reality is the jet fighter was along way from proper realisation in WW2 days.

[dmulally]

Baryonyx said:

Very broadly, they may have been able to give Germany the edge in air superiority, had they been developed early enough and constructed quickly enough, and mobilised quickly and effectively to take advantage of the jet fighter's strengths before the allies were able to reverse engineer them.

Consider the effect that a jet powered Luftwaffe could have had in batting off England's air defences! Ultimately though, this subject is really subject to the most fantastical speculation as the reality is the jet fighter was along way from proper realisation in WW2 days.

Thanks for the reply!

Have this as a reward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_heist

[MissChief]

Some aircraft pron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_helicopter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-67 The first blackhawk, far beyond it's time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA Russian Stealth attack jet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29 Forward swept wing experimental aircraft, although not the first to have this design. The germans got there first, although it was just a design.

And, of course, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft) the much hyped but still officially denied Aurora Hypersonic stealth plane.

[dvs_dave]

shakotan said:

omgus said:

Random fact I know about overland trains. A Scrapped overland train carriage provided the wheels for Bigfoot the Monster truck in the beginning.

Bigfoot 7, to be precise, which now lives in the Fun Spot USA theme park in Kissimmee, FL.

Edited by shakotan on Wednesday 14th March 11:27

:geek: There's actually a few of them however the original Bigfoot 1 is in St. Louis, MO on display outside the bigfoot store. I was on business there the a couple of weeks back and just stumbled across the place. The thing really is enormous and made me look small, even at 6'8" tall!

[Negative Creep]

Baryonyx said:

Very broadly, they may have been able to give Germany the edge in air superiority, had they been developed early enough and constructed quickly enough, and mobilised quickly and effectively to take advantage of the jet fighter's strengths before the allies were able to reverse engineer them.

Consider the effect that a jet powered Luftwaffe could have had in batting off England's air defences! Ultimately though, this subject is really subject to the most fantastical speculation as the reality is the jet fighter was along way from proper realisation in WW2 days.

We were developing the Meteor and P80 at roughly the same time, so it's likely they would have been rushed in to combat the me262. So whilst it may have extended the war I don't think it would have changed the outcome

[twazzock]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foerster%27s_syndrome

Bloke undergoing brain surgery comes out with a 'manic flight of puns'.

[omgus]

twazzock said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foerster%27s_syndrome

Bloke undergoing brain surgery comes out with a 'manic flight of puns'.

Nice, short and disturbing.

wiki said:

....all of the words had something to do with knives and butchery. This gruesome humour, Koestler noted, all came "from a man tied face down to the operating table with his skull open."