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| Thread ID: 68123 | 2006-04-18 09:04:00 | Conspiracy theory anyone | Barnabas (4562) | PC World Chat |
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| 447412 | 2006-05-18 05:13:00 | Now that sounds like a great perk. Wish my work gave out free trips...not much chance of that these days. :rolleyes: | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 447413 | 2006-05-18 05:53:00 | Now that sounds like a great perk. Wish my work gave out free trips...not much chance of that these days. :rolleyes: That was but a small perk. They paid for a degree course, paid my exam fees, accomodation fees, and all sorts of things. A very enlightened firm was Lucas :) It was at the height of the cold war, money poured out of Ministry of Supply to those engaged in defence and similar work. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 447414 | 2006-05-18 06:17:00 | I'm not a fan of conspiracy theroys.But if it was,then by sheer evidence it should be uncovered.Unless the U.S Govt is in complete control of that info.Which to date is fact. ;) What I cannot determine from the video footage is this: 1/ How does a 757 *141,330 lb (64,110 kg )* empty weight,fly 30 ft above the ground at EST*400 knots.What about power lines,trees & buildings in front of the pentagon?. 2/ The U.S Govt spends Billions on defense and security every year.But only has one security camera which takes a mere 1 frame per sec.What happened to live footage?.The NSA has Petabytes of storage that it could have been stored too. :confused: |
Utopia (7787) | ||
| 447415 | 2006-05-18 06:18:00 | A very enlightened firm was Lucas :) Unless you had a motorcycle, I remember switchgear that didn't always enlighten me :D "Lucas, Prince of Darkness" |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 447416 | 2006-05-18 06:19:00 | In fact they were so enlightened,they went out of business when tax money stopped pouring in. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 447417 | 2006-05-18 06:21:00 | Grahams invisibility proposition may not actually be far off the mark I remember being impressed by the way which clever photographers found to take architectural photographs without the visual pollution of cars which infest many places. Very slow film, small aperture, and very long exposures, and magically "no cars". No car was (even parked) there long enough to register. It was at the height of the cold war, money poured out of Ministry of Supply to those engaged in defence and similar work. And the stuff they produced didn't even have to work. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 447418 | 2006-05-18 06:58:00 | It has to be appreciated of course that Lucas Electrical based at Great King Street in Birmingham was a separate company to Gas Turbine Equipment Ltd. though I did work at Gt. King Street too. It was always a complaint of Vincent owners that here was this bike capable of 125 mph + but limited to about 50mph at night because of the lack of candle power. A P700 headlamp with a Volkeswagon 48 watt 6volt bulb gave a better beam than a F700 standard unit with a 36 watt bulb, but the dynamo (which was a Miller OEM) had to be adjusted to maximum output, and it was liable to armature 'solder flinging'. In fact there was only Miller as an alternative to Lucas for British bike electrics in those days, and they were far far worse than Lucas.Edit: BTH by then were defunct. Of course Lucas only supplied what the British bike makers wanted or were prepared to pay for. British manufacturers were notoriously conservative, and unimaginative in the 50s and 60s, even overhead camshaft engines they reckoned were too expensive. The Velocette KSS/KTT 350 ohc models of around 1947 though were particularly nice. Lucas made a special dynamo for the police bikes which gave 75 watts output instead of the standard 60 watts. That was another perk for working at Lucas, as well as access to the Racing Department. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 447419 | 2006-05-18 07:50:00 | That's quite a feat to fly a heavy airliner at 850km/hr at virtually zero feet and not touch the grass in front of the pentagon or hit a lamp post or anything else on the way through. I take my hat off to the rookie (and barely trained) pilot. have you any idea about how a plane like that is constructed? the wings are very flimsy, i.e not designed to standup to hitting a lawn or what not. and yes, have you not seen the photos of the lamp posts that were knocked over? or the wire fence toppled by the plane? |
Tux (606) | ||
| 447420 | 2006-05-18 07:56:00 | Wings are certainly not flimsy, how did you get that idea? They carry the whole of the weight of the plane plus dynamic loading, thrust etc etc. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 447421 | 2006-05-18 08:35:00 | Wings are certainly not flimsy, how did you get that idea? They carry the whole of the weight of the plane plus dynamic loading, thrust etc etc. they are when they meet the ground like that, or the building for that matter |
Tux (606) | ||
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