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[turnkey4099]

New questions!!

Kaiser, Contributed to 1 or 2 other things that helped the US & England win WW2.
What were they???
Are there any of them left???

In the 50's a new land speed record was set at over 300 MPH.
Who set the record??
What country was he from??
What happened to him??

Liberty ships built on assembly lines. I rode a troup transport to Alaska on one in 1955. Also a converted cargo ship (not sure it was a "liberty" tho) monitoring Russian ICBM lauches off Kamchatka in 1974/5. Huge antennas with massive amounts of radiation. When operating, going onto the weather decks was "not a good idea".

Harry K

 

[bcp]

In the 50's a new land speed record was set at over 300 MPH.

300mph was broken in the 1930's.

???

 

[crash325]

Liberty ships built on assembly lines. I rode a troop transport to Alaska on one in 1955. Also a converted cargo ship (not sure it was a "liberty" tho) monitoring Russian ICBM lauches off Kamchatka in 1974/5. Huge antennas with massive amounts of radiation. When operating, going onto the weather decks was "not a good idea" The P5M planes had a similar radar in the nose. It was said if you tossed an egg up in front while operating it would cook the egg. My squadron got in trouble, firing it off at night & lighting up the Admiral's house.

Harry K

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???

 

[powerpace]

P-38 Can opener. Still have mine.

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

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

 

[crash325]

P-38 Can opener. Still have mine.

Good 1 - 100% correct. "C" & "K" rations were terrible. I think they were canned after they were stale.

Now what about the German "P-38"???

What about Duct tape. Yes it did save the astronauts on mission "13" when the external oxygen tanks exploded. It had to circle the moon in order to get headed back to earth.

What was the original purpose that duct tape was invented for???

 

[farmgirl19]

P-38 is beer. You drink 2, pee 38! :laughing:

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

 

[brin]

Good 1 - 100% correct. "C" & "K" rations were terrible. I think they were canned after they were stale.

Now what about the German "P-38"???

What about Duct tape. Yes it did save the astronauts on mission "13" when the external oxygen tanks exploded. It had to circle the moon in order to get headed back to earth.

What was the original purpose that duct tape was invented for???

Crash....ole buddy...I beg to differ with ya - I loved most of the C and K rations....the can of Ham and Lima Beans
, Boned Turkey, Ham and Eggs were my favorites....I still have my P-38 as well....They were feeding us those rations as late as 1972 and maybe later...they had manufacture dates of the early 1940's ...so I was eating food canned before I was born....

 

[mikehaugen]

What was the original purpose that duct tape was invented for???

Sealing duct work

 

[/pine]

Sealing duct work

I think originally it was made for temporary water-proffing material and because of these properties it was originally "duck" tape...

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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 ????