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The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
RizzoTheRat said:
Tango13 said:
RizzoTheRat said:
mko9 said:
Actually, in order to get the contract let in the first place. The US doesn't generally buy military gear from anyone else. For example the USMC Harriers are a McDonnell-Douglas product. Firearms is about the only exception I can think of off the top of my head. The Roll-Royce engines for the B-52 are presumably going to be built in the US in partnership with PW or GE, or something .
RR have a Rolls Royce North America subsidiary which is basically what was Allison before RR bought it. They make the V22's engines.I was working at RR in Filton in the early noughties and was doing some work with a draftsman who said he had drawings were some measurements were given in metric and some in imperial, as the tolerances are so small you can't machine it accurately enough in the other measurements. Something to do with them using Allison cores on another engine or vice-versa I think.
We have a grinder that can grind a 10mm dia +0.005mm -0.0mm on hardened steel but I've also worked with plastics where we've told the customer that the job will be right on the machine and what happens to it after is their problem.
LotusOmega375D said:
We’ve recently had the Aston Martin Vulcan and Victor hypercars, so they may as well go full V bomber force and produce an Aston Martin Valiant too. Better name than Valhalla or Valkyrie IMO.
DoD just released new pics of the new stealth bomber and v boring name B-21 Raider. 
Voldemort said:
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The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
Maia was bombed and sunk in Poole Harbour; I wonder when they fetched it out?The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
Yertis said:
Voldemort said:
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The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
Maia was bombed and sunk in Poole Harbour; I wonder when they fetched it out?The Short Brothers Mayo Composite: which consisted of two aircraft. The lower aircraft G-ADHK named ‘Maia’ was built specifically to launch the upper component G-ADHJ named ‘Mercury’ into the air without Mercury using valuable fuel for the takeoff. These were used in 2 major experiments, the first when Mercury was launched from Foynes on the West Coast of Ireland and flew non-stop to Montreal and the second when Mercury was launched from Dundee in Scotland and landed 42 hours later on the delta of the Orange River on the border of SouthAfrica and Namibia having flown in excess of 5,600 miles.
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