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Reply #855 on: February 20, 2020, 01:58:32 PM
TSR2 was just to advanced for its time.

As a kid, I remember being taken to the Farnbrough Air Show when the Fairy Delta 2 there, flown by Peter Twiss.



Must have been in the very early 1950's

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Reply #856 on: February 21, 2020, 08:59:45 AM

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Reply #857 on: February 21, 2020, 09:01:05 AM
What an amazing find!

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Reply #858 on: February 21, 2020, 09:10:01 AM
It still blows my mind to this day that humans could build such highly-engineered and complex aircraft from precise plans created on physical drafting tables.

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Reply #859 on: February 21, 2020, 09:14:31 AM
Absolutely. I did engineering drawing once, and that was obviously in pre CAD-CAM days. I really used to enjoy the technical drawing aspect and still had some of the equipment until a few years ago.

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Reply #860 on: February 21, 2020, 09:19:30 AM
I took some AutoCAD classes back in the mid-90s and even then it was pretty amazing to think people did that by hand. With precise drawing instruments, to be fair, but...BY HAND.  :o

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Reply #861 on: February 21, 2020, 09:22:35 AM
AutoCad?

Ha! Wimp................ ;)

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Reply #862 on: February 21, 2020, 09:24:31 AM
I know, right?

My final project in the 2D class was the Enterprise (from TOS) and the Enterprise's bridge. The 3D class I took the next semester, I did a 3D model of the TOS Enterprise, complete with lights on the inside. What fun that was.

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Reply #863 on: February 21, 2020, 05:53:52 PM

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.


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Reply #864 on: February 22, 2020, 06:22:33 AM
58 sqn was a Coastal Command unit for most of the war, apart from a brief period with Bomber Command.

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Reply #865 on: February 23, 2020, 08:36:55 AM

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Reply #866 on: February 23, 2020, 12:42:16 PM

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Reply #867 on: February 23, 2020, 12:45:00 PM
Clean underwear, please!

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Reply #868 on: February 26, 2020, 05:28:15 PM

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Reply #869 on: February 27, 2020, 07:48:11 AM
I.E., "remind China we're here"

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