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[2LaneCruzer]

What NOMEX stands for?

I think I know what it does, but haven't a clue as to what it stands for.

 

[k0ua]

I think I know what it does, but haven't a clue as to what it stands for.

Same here, Nomex is a Dupont flame retardant fiber worn as protective garments by race car drivers and pilots. but if the letters stand for something, I don't know what it is.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

As I remember Fritz-x was a remote piloted "cruise missile" more or less. I believe it used a TV camera in the nose to help the remote pilot get it on target. I am guessing here, but its' control link was probably easily jammed?

Pretty close. The Fritz-X was a radio controlled guided bomb. The bomb was controlled from the plane that dropped it, and since it had to hang around for quite some time to guide the bomb to the target, the plane was vulnerable to allied fighters. There was a rocket powered guided missile developed by the Germans later in the war, and the Allies simply flooded the air with all frequencies of radio waves to jam the controls.

 

[k0ua]

Pretty close. The Fritz-X was a radio controlled guided bomb. The bomb was controlled from the plane that dropped it, and since it had to hang around for quite some time to guide the bomb to the target, the plane was vulnerable to allied fighters. There was a rocket powered guided missile developed by the Germans later in the war, and the Allies simply flooded the air with all frequencies of radio waves to jam the controls.

Pretty sophisticated stuff for 1945

 

[k0ua]

The Germans had something called Metox on board their submarines. What was it? What was if used for?

 

[houstonscott]

During WWII, the Germans developed a high-tech weapon dubbed "Fritz-X" by the Allies. What was this weapon and what was its Achilles heel?

Friitz x was a bomb design, and it worked! HS

 

[houstonscott]

Pretty sophisticated stuff for 1945

Nothing we have today wasn't don't first by the Germans in WWII, including launching missiles from a submerged sub. HS

 

[Redneck in training]

Nothing we have today wasn't don't first by the Germans in WWII, including launching missiles from a submerged sub. HS

Germans made sophisticated weapons but the problem was they, due to complexity, couldn't make them in large quantities. In example Panther (6000 made) were superior tanks but were outnumbered by T-34 (more than 170 000 made).

 

[crash325]

Did the US Military ever build a flying saucer???? (Have it Built for them )

 

[Redneck in training]

What NOMEX stands for?

I was working at NASA Moffet field several years ago and heard the story about NOMEX name. US maned space vehicles used low pressure oxygen breathing atmospere and thus there was a need for fire retardant materials. DuPOnt was contracted to develop fire retardant textile fibre but couldn't get it right. At some point DuPont was told No More EXcuses. The researchers started to call the material NOMEX and it stuck it.

 

[k0ua]

Did the US Military ever build a flying saucer???? (Have it Built for them )

yeah there was that goofy, Canadian thing "something" car.. I cant't quite remember the name... aerocar? It was more or less like a hovercraft, that seems to me never got more than 3 or 4 foot off of the ground, and seemed unstable from the old films I have seen of it in operation.

 

[k0ua]

I was working at NASA Moffet field several years ago and heard the story about NOMEX name. US maned space vehicles used low pressure oxygen breathing atmospere and thus there was a need for fire retardant materials. DuPOnt was contracted to develop fire retardant textile fibre but couldn't get it right. At some point DuPont was told No More EXcuses. The researchers started to call the material NOMEX and it stuck it.

That is interesting... It sure is a successful fabric.

 

[houstonscott]

Did the US Military ever build a flying saucer???? (Have it Built for them )

Yeah they tried, it was failure. HS

 

[turnkey4099]

Yeah they tried, it was failure. HS

Avrocar. It not only was a failure it was a pathetic failure. The only dthing "flying saucer" about it was it's shape. It was really only a hovercraft in effect.

Harry K

 

[vtsnowedin]

OK my new question. ? How did WWII submarines returning to Pearl harbor after a patrol tell the spectators how their patrol went?

 

[k0ua]

OK my new question. ? How did WWII submarines returning to Pearl harbor after a patrol tell the spectators how their patrol went?

Broom on the conning tower. For a "clean sweep".

 

[vtsnowedin]

Broom on the conning tower. For a "clean sweep".

Close enough. I thought it was tied to the periscope fully extended but It might have varied between the numerous subs that returned.

 

[k0ua]

Apparently there are a lot of history buff's here.

US fleet boats (Gato and Balao class subs) had a type of recorder on board. What did it record? and of what use was the information that could be gathered from looking at the carbon coated card that registered the data.

Only the US had this device, although other navies knew of the principal, and relied on cruder methods.

 

[houstonscott]

Apparently there are a lot of history buff's here. US fleet boats (Gato and Balao class subs) had a type of recorder on board. What did it record? and of what use was the information that could be gathered from looking at the carbon coated card that registered the data. Only the US had this device, although other navies knew of the principal, and relied on cruder methods.

Wow you got me on this one. HS

 

[k0ua]

Wow you got me on this one. HS

Anyone else? Hint: it worked like a modern day etch a sketch. But it was no toy. It was a rather important instrument.