Normally, I don't go for this stuff of stock carving. However, this is something totally different. This is history! I like it very much. I'm glad it's being preserved in a museum. Thanks for sharing.
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Normally, I don't go for this stuff of stock carving. However, this is something totally different. This is history! I like it very much. I'm glad it's being preserved in a museum. Thanks for sharing.
Dark Alley Dan
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Well worth preserving, but I have to think the RSM would have killed him using only his hands and teeth had he seen it.
RSMs were part of the "Left out Battle" cadre to reconstitute the battalion after an attack. Most of the LOB cadre never saw no man's land while it was swept by fire. Most RSMs and CO never saw much action but they did get the medals.
HMS Furious, packing what was, at the time, the largest gun afloat - a totally impractical single 18" turret aft. Originally it was intended to mount two guns of this size, but the forward turret was sacrificed for an experimental flying-off deck. The aft turret did not last long, as the ship was far too lightly-built to handle such a substantial weapon, and it was removed in favor of an additional aviation platform.
Ah, the memories ....
I learned from this video that what I was told about the hole in the roof being for a perspex navigation bubble was wrong. It was an escape hatch! You'd have to pretty slim to get your butt up and thru that!
Most likely done post-war on a surplus or buckshee rifle.
Re: the "Rosalie" on the left butt ....
Isn't that what the Poilus called their cruciform bayonets?
���� Sabia que nos primórdios da aviação a velocidade da aeronave era verificada através do vento neste instrumento rudimentar? A aeronave estava na velocidade ideal se o ponteiro estivesse na risca vermelha, se estivesse fora dos riscos azuis ia muito devagar ou muito rápido. Nas férias desloque-se sempre em velocidades ideais e seguras. Bom fim de semana!
���� Did you know that in the early days of aviation the aircraft speed was checked through the wind on this rudimentary instrument? The aircraft was at ideal speed if the needle was in the red streak, if it was out of the blue streaks, it went too slowly or too fast. During holidays always travel at ideal and safe speeds. Have a great weekend!
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Speaking of a hole in the roof.
I made the trip up to Senalager once in the early 70’s and got some jumps out of the old Rapide and they also had an Islander we jumped out of as well. A few years later a skydiving friend said there was an incident there when the Islander and the Rapide were in formation at altitude on final jump run. Apparently the Rapide lost formation while the jumpers were exiting. The first one out of the Islander nearly hit the Rapide while the second one out fell through the top of the Rapide’s fuselage and landed up on the wooden floor. The third from the Islander held back at the door as all he saw below was a spinning propeller. Only bumps and bruises and he didn’t get a refund.
