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• Greg. Tingey commented on Introducing Hugh Hancock
  What happened there? I thought we were in 1912-13?...
• Trottelreiner commented on Introducing Hugh Hancock
  Though similar. But then, I guess that is one of the usual stange attractors, namely aircrafts in general and WW2 aircrafts with special notion in effect... Sorry, answer in character in work, on the way to work......
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Introducing Hugh Hancock
  Here in the Spontoon Islands, such matters are taught to the schoolchildren, as a useful example of how mathematics and physics combine with the manual crafts to become engineering. Every year the Senior Year at the Spontoon Islands Technical High School carries out some research project. The project in 1928 concerned the cooling fins on an internal combustion engine, most of the work being done with parts for a motor bicycle. Briefly, the limiting factor on an air-cooled engine is the manufacture of the cooling fins on the cylinders. The more fuel which is burnt in a cylinder, the more...
• scott-sanford commented on Introducing Hugh Hancock
  I have seen one of Mr de Haviland's early designs for what he has chosen to call a "jet aircraft". He appears to be addressing the heat issue in a number of manners, including the use of scoops and vents to obtain airflow within the engine compartment, insulation...and a bifurcated tail assembly, producing an aircraft somewhat similar to a SAAB J-21 but without the propellor. Considering the high speed flame that would issue from such a turbine engine, a bifurcated tail may be a necessity. The vehicle would have to be configured in such a way that the exhaust from...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Introducing Hugh Hancock
  Ah yes The VAMPIRE affectioately knoiwn as the "vamp" tiny little things - well I remember them screaming over my Grandmothers' house in Lincolnshire on the way to/from the low-level ranges out in the Wash. Replaced, later by the much larger, & scarily competent Sea Vixen...