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slinky
Original Poster
14,468 posts
119 months
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R300will
3,622 posts
21 months
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V8mate
35,313 posts
59 months
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R300will said: why? Why not?
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Booey
6,642 posts
50 months
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R300will said: why? This is a big question. Not sure if I can answer that one and it goes on and on
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slinky
Original Poster
14,468 posts
119 months
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Do we have to have the same question every time a thread gets a new volume??
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Aizle
11,930 posts
45 months
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slinky said: Do we have to have the same question every time a thread gets a new volume?? "Things you always wanted to know the answer to" It would seem so 
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Tyre Tread
6,355 posts
86 months
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Why is it likely that this thread will die now its lost its natural flow?
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DannyScene
1,798 posts
25 months
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2 part question first part I suspect has been asked before.
Is there a minimum speed needed to keep a plane in the air? I geuess it will vary by aircraft so lets say a Britten-Norman Islander.
2ns part, why do some police use these instead of choppers? If a planes minimum speed is higher than the car its chasing will it not just have to keep circling in order to not blast past it
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Paddy_N_Murphy
15,249 posts
54 months
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DannyScene said: 2 part question first part I suspect has been asked before.
Is there a minimum speed needed to keep a plane in the air? I geuess it will vary by aircraft so lets say a Britten-Norman Islander.
2ns part, why do some police use these instead of choppers? If a planes minimum speed is higher than the car its chasing will it not just have to keep circling in order to not blast past it Yes and Cheaper
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LukeSi
5,093 posts
31 months
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Paddy_N_Murphy said: DannyScene said: 2 part question first part I suspect has been asked before.
Is there a minimum speed needed to keep a plane in the air? I geuess it will vary by aircraft so lets say a Britten-Norman Islander.
2ns part, why do some police use these instead of choppers? If a planes minimum speed is higher than the car its chasing will it not just have to keep circling in order to not blast past it Yes and Cheaper To add to that, planes are also a hell of a lot more fuel efficient that choppers. Quite often however they will have a plane on standby to take over from the chopper if it gets to bingo fuel.
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Mr.Jimbo
1,386 posts
53 months
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On roadworks (M62) you have the little amber lights on top of the cones. Every now and again there are purple (maybe UV?) ones... is this just the cones indicating if they're toppers or something less gay?
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TheEnd
12,289 posts
58 months
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Mr.Jimbo said: On roadworks (M62) you have the little amber lights on top of the cones. Every now and again there are purple (maybe UV?) ones... is this just the cones indicating if they're toppers or something less gay? and how do they flash in order like runway lights without losing synchronisation, unless they are all wired together...
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J a k e
704 posts
105 months
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Mr.Jimbo said: On roadworks (M62) you have the little amber lights on top of the cones. Every now and again there are purple (maybe UV?) ones... is this just the cones indicating if they're toppers or something less gay? toppers? Wossat mean then?
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davepoth
20,194 posts
69 months
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J a k e said: oppers? Wossat mean then? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=top I should have just told you to google it. 
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JonnyFive
26,919 posts
59 months
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Could a cyclist set a red light camera off?
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Silent1
17,642 posts
105 months
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TheEnd said: Mr.Jimbo said: On roadworks (M62) you have the little amber lights on top of the cones. Every now and again there are purple (maybe UV?) ones... is this just the cones indicating if they're toppers or something less gay? and how do they flash in order like runway lights without losing synchronisation, unless they are all wired together... IIRC it's a simple wireless transmitter and receiver, the old ones used to have a light sensor but they only worked in the dark, the wireless means that different patterns can be set. A useless bit of trivia to that is, i once speed matched a set of those lights and found that the flashing light travelled at 127mph
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Einion Yrth
10,450 posts
114 months
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Silent1 said: i once speed matched a set of those lights and found that the flashing light travelled at 127mph Surely that would depend on how far apart the cones were.
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Aizle
11,930 posts
45 months
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Well if he was driving at 127mph and the light was travelling with him, it would appear the light was doing 127mph.
ETA - Now I'm properly awake I see your point. I wonder if they can tell how far apart they are and flash at "127mph" ish.
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JonnyFive
26,919 posts
59 months
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Just read on google that apparently it's just a IR sensor and sender either side of the lamp.. Front picks up the signal from the rear of the one in front of it, flashes and sends a signal out of the back to the one behind it..
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George H
10,487 posts
34 months
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Is there an underwater speed record?
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