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F5, that's what I think.
Want to try the rig and the aerodrome?
in is a typo, sorry.
Edit: And the clue to the aerodrome was the British (and French) Navy messing it up in the Crimean war.
Want to try the rig and the aerodrome?
in the rig
Edit: And the clue to the aerodrome was the British (and French) Navy messing it up in the Crimean war.
Want to try the rig and the aerodrome?
The wide brown land for me...
(actually, it's green, the drought has officially been declared over)
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OK mate. Go carefully over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There is water below it, you know.
Over to you with the thread.
Maybe someone else later would venture a guess or show his knowledge to win the stickers.
Reg
Edit to say good night, have to go.
Over to you with the thread.
Maybe someone else later would venture a guess or show his knowledge to win the stickers.
Reg
Edit to say good night, have to go.
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There is water below it, you know.
Good night. I'll rummage around for a challenge a bit later.
Cheers
Graeme.
Noyade 500 Challenge
PPRuNe clock says 0746 hrs. Thought that the 500 minutes should start from the first post after this.
This is an interesting one. I got it from a book on optical illusions...
According to the text, black silhouettes appear invisible when placed on a pink background. Apparently the rods and cones of the male retina can't recognise a black image in a sea of pink due to an "absorption" factor of their relative wavelengths.
Those that can see it are females and gay-boys.
I can't see it, but the answer to the puzzle is on pp.145. Maybe your wives and girlfriends could describe it to you? My wife says it has a propeller and two wings, which does fit the answer page.
I'll understand if you don't post an answer. It's a silly competition anyway.
Fascinating, huh?!...
This is an interesting one. I got it from a book on optical illusions...
According to the text, black silhouettes appear invisible when placed on a pink background. Apparently the rods and cones of the male retina can't recognise a black image in a sea of pink due to an "absorption" factor of their relative wavelengths.
Those that can see it are females and gay-boys.
I can't see it, but the answer to the puzzle is on pp.145. Maybe your wives and girlfriends could describe it to you? My wife says it has a propeller and two wings, which does fit the answer page.
I'll understand if you don't post an answer. It's a silly competition anyway.
Fascinating, huh?!...
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Good evening Graeme, good morning
Interesting dilemmas you have there. Need to take a look at them both. As to myself, I have one: This morning, I brought Me Missus coffee and orange juice to bed and asked how she would like to have her eggs today. She said "rainy side up". Anyone got a recipe? Feel free to PM me if you want to contain the pandemic.
Reg
Interesting dilemmas you have there. Need to take a look at them both. As to myself, I have one: This morning, I brought Me Missus coffee and orange juice to bed and asked how she would like to have her eggs today. She said "rainy side up". Anyone got a recipe? Feel free to PM me if you want to contain the pandemic.
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Yes, the boat is a gaf-rigged one, up there they call it something that would be yawl in English and is like the oyster yawls elsewhere (although it looks like a sloop to me). They were used up there to haul heating wood and sea sand in summer time; the sea is frozen in the winter.
The boat is a sideline, of course, but I found the setting romantic, two eras meeting.
The aircraft was the largest "flying ship", as they called it, so far seen up there (1919). It is a Felixstowe F.5 - N.90 as Graeme said. You can see the N-90 faintly on the empennage in the first posted picture. john porte | felixstowe | 1955 | 1806 | Flight Archive.
The "aerodrome" is the waters behind a costal fortress outside Helsinki, Finland. It was heavily shelled (the fortress) by British and French navies in 1855 in an operation against Russia during the Crimean war.
It is possible that this aircraft was around now in conjunction to a torpedo boat attack of the British Navy, supported by aircraft, against bolsheviks in Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg. The British intervened via Gulf of Finland and Murmansk (there using a.o. two aircraft carriers). BTW the aircraft from HMS Nairana bombed and fired at a village in Lapland during the Murmansk operation, killing one soldier and one civilian. As far as I know, these are the only Finnish casualties of the British since the Crimean war.
Yes, the boat is a gaf-rigged one, up there they call it something that would be yawl in English and is like the oyster yawls elsewhere (although it looks like a sloop to me). They were used up there to haul heating wood and sea sand in summer time; the sea is frozen in the winter.
The boat is a sideline, of course, but I found the setting romantic, two eras meeting.
The aircraft was the largest "flying ship", as they called it, so far seen up there (1919). It is a Felixstowe F.5 - N.90 as Graeme said. You can see the N-90 faintly on the empennage in the first posted picture. john porte | felixstowe | 1955 | 1806 | Flight Archive.
The "aerodrome" is the waters behind a costal fortress outside Helsinki, Finland. It was heavily shelled (the fortress) by British and French navies in 1855 in an operation against Russia during the Crimean war.
It is possible that this aircraft was around now in conjunction to a torpedo boat attack of the British Navy, supported by aircraft, against bolsheviks in Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg. The British intervened via Gulf of Finland and Murmansk (there using a.o. two aircraft carriers). BTW the aircraft from HMS Nairana bombed and fired at a village in Lapland during the Murmansk operation, killing one soldier and one civilian. As far as I know, these are the only Finnish casualties of the British since the Crimean war.
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Somewhere in Graemes' post lies a very cryptic clue.
I have been searching for his optical illusion image and have found it, but it has no name.
As to his reference to pp145, I'm at a loss, because that was about a Russian jet, but I can't find a Russian biplane or sesquiplane which looks like his challenge.
I have been searching for his optical illusion image and have found it, but it has no name.
As to his reference to pp145, I'm at a loss, because that was about a Russian jet, but I can't find a Russian biplane or sesquiplane which looks like his challenge.
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How about Nakajima A4N, from rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, on page 145 for Fuji Rabbit scooter 
which used Nakajima tail wheel after the war....
You can see how desperate I am Graeme
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And LM, not on anything (I am, that is)
Edit: Yet another page in my life....
which used Nakajima tail wheel after the war....You can see how desperate I am Graeme
.And LM, not on anything (I am, that is)
Edit: Yet another page in my life....
The black lines in the illusion are known as MacKay Rays, which causes an image in the centre to appear to shimmer. 
This ain't going to help you though.............
This ain't going to help you though.............
Tick, Tick, Tick...
Those that can see it are females and gay-boys.
Reminds me of a joke...
I think there’s a joke about a father whose son is an extreme optimist. Nothing gets him down and this drives the father nuts, so much so he tries to cure him. On his son’s next birthday he gets three tons of horse manure delivered to the front yard.
In the morning he takes him son to the manure pile and says “Happy Birthday son!” Laughing , he goes back inside.
A little while later while reading the paper he hears his son laughing. He runs outside and is astonished to see his son happy as ever shovelling the manure in all directions and laughing wildly.
“What the hell have you got to be happy about son?!”
His son stops shovelling, looks up at his father grinning, “Thanks for the present dad, I know there’s a pony in here somewhere!!”