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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 22, 2006 20:29:45 GMT 12
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Post by Bruce on Dec 22, 2006 21:29:19 GMT 12
A very cool series of pictures - plus some Hangar cats! I hope that "Mosquito" isnt responsible for the disappearance of the plastic rat off the top of Fifi's instrument panel. for many years a plastic rat was stuck on top of the panel (Ive seen it in a number of magazine photos) for use as a "propeller synchronsation indicator" - its tail would vibrate until the engines were in synch!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 22, 2006 21:37:57 GMT 12
I think they're having major worries with the engines right now. Maybe the rat was fired?
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Post by steve on Dec 23, 2006 0:56:54 GMT 12
Neat pictures...would be great to see the 'nuc' bomber in real world..
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 23, 2006 11:02:31 GMT 12
Was the B-29 ever a nuclear bomber?
I know it was certainly an atomic bomber. But I've not heard of them carrying nuclear bombs.
Even as conventional bombers they were powerful and devastating.
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Dec 23, 2006 11:12:05 GMT 12
I think they're having major worries with the engines right now. Maybe the rat was fired? Yip thats right, they are having a few issues, I heard that they have been given a $2 million pledge to be put towards engine work but dont know who came up with the cash, That is US $. All four engines need to be replaced |
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Post by steve on Dec 23, 2006 11:26:46 GMT 12
Please correct me if i have this wrong however i thought an atomic bomb was the earlier term for a nuclear bomb... where as a Hydrogen bomb used a different process and is approx 100 times more dreadful than the Atomic bomb and was first exploded by the yanks at bikini atoll in 1952?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 23, 2006 12:03:28 GMT 12
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Post by dav3469 on Dec 23, 2006 13:07:19 GMT 12
I think they're having major worries with the engines right now. Maybe the rat was fired? Yip thats right, they are having a few issues, I heard that they have been given a $2 million pledge to be put towards engine work but dont know who came up with the cash, That is US $. All four engines need to be replaced A Gent named Joe Jamieson donated the funds. He founded a company that makes various safety systems for the transportation industry, including some autopilot work with helicopters. Hopefully it won't be too long before they can raise the rest of the funds needed. |
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Dec 23, 2006 13:37:47 GMT 12
How much more money is needed?
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Post by dav3469 on Dec 23, 2006 13:55:02 GMT 12
about a million more is what the estimate is that I have seen in the mag's over here.
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Dec 23, 2006 14:37:37 GMT 12
WOW, 3 million to get 4 engines serviceable, are they all zero timed for that price? you would kind of hope so.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 23, 2006 15:31:34 GMT 12
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Dec 23, 2006 15:42:38 GMT 12
Thanks for the links Dave  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 23, 2006 16:24:13 GMT 12
Thread topic drift I know, but the nuclear issue in New Zealand has always been more emotive than factual. I recall visits of USN ships to Wellington which were nuclear powered and some of the ridiculous claims made by the anti-nuclear mis-fits. They had the then Department of Scientific Research place monitors at strategic points around the harbour to monitor radiation from the ship, completely ignoring the fact that some 2700 USN personnel lived and breathed on that ship for months at a time and didn't glow in the dark as a result! It was subsequently shown that the radioactive isotopes used in hospital produced nore radiation than the Enterprise, but of course that appeard in small print out of the mass hysteria. The successors to the old DSIR have, to this day, a nuclear accelerator which produced more radiation than that ship did! It's in Lower Hutt, just a few miles down the road, and while I may truly shine in the dark, it's not a result of exposure! Whether we liked it or not, the fact was that during the period immediately after the Second World War, the ONLY thing that kept the Russians checking their expansion and sabre-rattling was the threat that the UK and US would have hit them very hard indeed.
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Post by steve on Dec 23, 2006 17:25:46 GMT 12
Colin...well sum up..."more emotive than factual"...I have always taken a pro UK US position but i suppose NZ has gone down a different road...and thats democracy. A good mate of mine was a petty officer on a Nuc Sub (USS Pintado) who attended my engagment party in 1977 on Waiheki Island. He gave me a guided tour of the sub and I in return got him half smashed at Puhoi pub and then introduced him to PM Rob Muldoon at Hatsfield beach at his bach! There Rob spent 20 minutes with us and then called a herald reporter afterwards to say how an officer from the Sub had personally come to his bach to thank the country for hopitality.
My friend Mike was staioned at Pudget Sound Wash State and no one believed him that he had an audience with the PM until I sent the herald clipping to him in the US..he was wapted..
Really have enjoyed your stories and insight this year cheers steve
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