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[crash325]

Sealing duct work

You are right!! I goofed.

I meant duck tape The kind with cotton thread in it. Sorry.

Sorry Farm girl Beer does not count.

I ate some in the 40's, Crackers & meat tasted stale to me.

 

[Lou66]

I still have my P-38 on the same chain as my dog tags,, I use to trade my Lucky Strikes to this guy for his pound cake,, the caked tasted like crap,, but filled you up with enough water.. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

Sorry Farm girl Beer does not count.

OK then, if booze is not the answer, then firepower must be. German P-38 is a firearm.

 

[crash325]

If you were to replace all of the spark plugs on a Convair B-36, how many would you need?

Before jets were added 192. I use to sit in class and watch them go by.

 

[flyerdan]

I'm going to say 336 for sparkplugs on the the 36, I think they ran corn cobs on those, same as the 29's.

 

[crash325]

I'm going to say 336 for sparkplugs on the the 36, I think they ran corn cobs on those, same as the 29's.

The R-44(3)60 was a 14 cylinder engine. 4 Rows of 7 cylinders. 2 Spark plugs each, total 168.
I could be wrong??

 

[turnkey4099]

Good one!! Liberty ship is correct.
He set up 3 assembly plants & had them competing against each other. Building kept getting faster & faster.

They got so fast a ship was built in - hours - days - weeks????
He also pioneered at least 2 construction methods still in use today???
Early liberty ships had a major flaw, that sank quite a few of them???

There is 1 left, it was found in Europe. A bunch of old Farts that had crewed on them went over & got it. It came to the US under its own power. May be restored by now as they were working on it.

A new question??
When P-38 is mentioned most of us think of a airplane.
There was another P-38 carried by almost every GI. What was it??
German's also had a P-38, Know what that was???

Re: Kaiser:

Built a ship in a day (may have been less)
Pioneered use of welding in ship building.
Building sub units and assembling them on the ways??

Fatal flaw was they would break in half in a heavy sea. Solution - added a band of steel wrapped around the hull just below the deck.

p-38 - can opener. I probably still have one in my junk somewhere.

Harry K

 

[turnkey4099]

German P-38 - automatic pistol side arm. ?Luger? - had that weird top toggle action.

Harry K

 

[crash325]

Re: Kaiser:

Built a ship in a day (may have been less)
Pioneered use of welding in ship building.
Building sub units and assembling them on the ways??

Fatal flaw was they would break in half in a heavy sea. Solution - added a band of steel wrapped around the hull just below the deck.

p-38 - can opener. I probably still have one in my junk somewhere.

German P-38 - automatic pistol side arm. ?Luger? - had that weird top toggle action.

Harry K

Your on top of things Harry. Sure did nail it on the Liberty ships.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
The German P-38 was a German semi auto pistol. It was called P-38 Luger By Americans & Germans?? It was more like a modern semi auto. The Luger had the weird toggle on the top.

 

[crash325]

When a WW2 Heavy bomber, most of us think of the B17. It was produced at a little over 9,000 We had another bomber that was produced at over 13,000. What was it. ???

The English produced their own when it comes to heavy bombers that is what they think of.
What was the name of it???

Did the English fly either of the American bombers ????