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On 01/04/2014 16:20, Indrek wrote:


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On 31/03/2014 20:16, ®i©ardo wrote:
On 31/03/2014 18:11, Claus Gustafsen wrote:
Well I agree that the Buffalo isn'r a pretty plane, it still looks
better than the Barracuda to me.
But the brittish did produce this (it seems to me) much overlooked
beauty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlan...lwind_(fighter)
Claus

Hi Claus,

I live a couple of miles from where the Westland Whirlwind was built.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idJ3tF00Og

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/wh...ghter-squadron

Ri©ardo


Thank you for posting those Ricardo. First time I've seen Whirlwinds
in flight. Such an elegant aircraft. I first came across it as an
Airfix kit way back when. Two bob at Woolies, I think.

By the time I started work at Yeovil, Westlands were well into the
helicopter era, in fact I was involved in the computer side of Sea
King production.

--
Peter

Did they have computers in the stone age when the Sea Kings were built?

Cheers,

Indrek Aavisto


A steam-driven abacus was our most advanced computation device.

In the real world, when I joined in '66 the ICT 1301 was about to be
replaced by an IBM 360. There were still some Powers Samas tabulators in
use, which used 40-column cards. The roof leaked in the room where the
1301 stood, so it had to be switched off and covered during heavy rain.
In hot weather the doors to the drum compartment were opened and a fan
on the floor blew air over the drum to prevent parity errors caused by
overheating. I operated the 1301 for a few weeks while we waited for the
360 to be installed and we could start programming it.

--
Peter