Cross-posted to uk.rec.engines.stationary and uk.rec.models.engineering)
Got this from our friends in the USA just now, the images are fairly large and take a while to download, but very interesting and worth the wait.
It concerns an Iraqi MIG (23?) that was buried in the desert and then "rediscovered".
Peter
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My shed. ttfn Roland
Roland, Are you taking over my job :-((
Martin P
Peter, As usual this may be a daft question. where are the pics, ive been to your sight but see no mention of Mig 23's
Martin P
Martin you really need to work on these fundamentary tendencies :-) ttfn Roland PS its job-sharing- get with the programme :-)
No, not a daft question, the url was on the original but didn't make it to the newsgroups for some reason...
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Whats my bottom got to do with it. (look in Dictionary ) :-))
Martin P
Peter, Sorry I am in picky mode tonight, its a Mig 25 Foxbat B capable of mach 2.8 for very short periods supposed to have been first built in the 60's
Martin P
That's OK, I wasn't sure of the type which is why I put a ? after the number in my original post...
Peter
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And I forgot to put a :-)) after my note.
Martin P
Gert Russian jet fighter would have been enough to get my attention ;o))
I DO wish I could have bought the Proteus engined milk float - what an opportunity missed. Think of the gap cars behind you would leave as it spooled up!
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
---------------------------------------------------- I think that Proteus was a Viper M.H.
"what is an occasional table the rest of the time"
With or without coconut ? 8-)
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Oh, well that's clearly no use at all then !
I'd always fancied the little Fiat gas turbine car. A tailpipe on it like Batman's, and Turin traffic to play with it in. Only the British could build a gas turbine car and still make it look like the bank manager was driving it.
-- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods
-------------------------------------------------------- Maybe I should just lurk rather than post!! Mike.H.
It might well have been a Viper - which makes me even crosser as I used to Have To Do with the chase Folland Gnat that was around at BSE in the sixties. The airframe was almost literally bolted to the engine and there was certainly no room to spit through it!
They used to fix Vipers outside my office, so I ought to have recognised it - ah, the years passing by ;o)).
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
In article , J K Siddorn writes
IIRC the Gnat had an Orpheus.
I was very lucky to fly behind a pair of Vipers when I worked for BAe at Hatfield. For quite a long time (it may still be so), anyone with a meeting to go to at another airfielded BAe site could ring up and book a seat on the 125, first come first served. I flew quite a bit on this service, which when I started to use it was operated by a Series 3B with Viper engines. It was the one and only time I've ever flown on straight- turbojet power (and probably always will be). A lovely little aircraft, which felt much 'nippier' than the series 600F which took over the service later.
Regards, Andrew.
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