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[sail32]

During WW1 the Germans used the Madsen machine gun, a LMG, and captured Lewis Guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_machine_gun

The Madsen was used by a large number of countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_machine_gun#/media/File:Madsen_machine_gun_with_magazine.jpg

 

[green]

Kingsville Legion had a German Madsen in their collection.

 

[XRCD011]

And still soldiering on.

 

[sail32]

C&Rsenal

Small Arms of WWI Primer 118: Madsen 1905

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duOpp4Gr2Vg

 

[HuskyDude]

And still soldiering on.

Sneak one more vid in...if that's alright....

 

[donor]

Aside from cost of manufacturing there is no reason why old design MGs and SMGs wouldn't be useful.Vulcan gun of A10 is essentially nothing more than old Gatling gun with electric motor spinning it.

I hope DoD keeps blueprints of Stens,Brens and other MG "just in case".

And for something very different here is inside of airliner version of Farman Goliath french bomber.Looks and feels like a streetcar from break of the century.

Farman did some excellent work back then making early airliners,even if they looked very strange to us. Farman F.180-only 3 build.

 

[Sharps '74]

Thank God! Any more would have been air pollution.

 

[Ironers]

I guess they were realistic about passenger survivalbility in a crash and did not
even bother with seat belts.

Or seat belts are for sissies and cowardly.

 

[HuskyDude]

With all the mass layoffs...I thought we were looking at the interior of Bombardier's new CRJ900

 

[zupermann]

With all the mass layoffs...I thought we were looking at the interior of Bombardier's new CRJ900

Much more leg room here than on modern airliners !

 

[purple]

With all the mass layoffs...I thought we were looking at the interior of Bombardier's new CRJ900

Now that's both funny and sad.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein of Newport News, Virginia, holds the Holy Scroll as Capt. Manuel M. Poliakoff, and Cpl. Martin Willen, of Baltimore, Maryland, conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Mönchengladbach, Germany on March 18, 1945. They were the first Jewish services held east of the Ruhr and were offered in memory of soldiers of the faith who were lost by the 29th Division, U.S. 9th Army.

Suck it, Goebbels, you rat-faced prick.

In the event you're interested, Schloss Rheydt still stands. Looks like it's a museum now: https://schlossrheydt.de/

 

[shredder]

^^^Oh, THAT would've pissed off Herr Goebbels to no end.....if he'd known about it.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Much more leg room here than on modern airliners !

And people were shorter.

Grizz

 

[CV32]

100 years ago, on 14 February 1920, two twin-seat Ansaldo SVA 9 biplanes took off from Centocelle (Rome) airstrip, and flew to Tokyo, Japan, arriving on May 31, after flying 18,000 km over 112 flight hours.

 

[diopter]

18000km divided by 112hrs = 160.7143km/hr average air speed.

 

[RifleDude]

Much more leg room here than on modern airliners !

And if the smoke from your fellow passengers bothered you too much, you could just open the window beside you to let the smoke out. Also, notice the little vases on the side to brighten the cabin with flowers.

 

[Ganderite]

18000km divided by 112hrs = 160.7143km/hr average air speed.

That is about 100 mph. I guess that is about right for an old bipe.

The logistics planning must have been a chore. They probably did not have email. Or even long distance phone.

 

[CV32]

That is about 100 mph. I guess that is about right for an old bipe. The logistics planning must have been a chore. They probably did not have email. Or even long distance phone.

Just the challenges of navigation alone would have been daunting.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

18000km divided by 112hrs = 160.7143km/hr average air speed.

Nowadays, we just fly over the Pole, much shorter. Don't have to take a mechanical team and a bunch of essential spare parts along either.


Grizz