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derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
They are a different quality.
Stirling Engines.
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Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I hope so. I've seen traditional bicycle horns for sale at £10 on the web, they're identical to the ones sold by Poundland.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
Sterling isn't a town in the UK (which is what the RAF named its WW2 heavy bombers after).
But Stirling is.
classic33
Leg End Member
Developed from the Sunderland.
swee'pea99
Squire
A thing of beauty. Reminds me of a little anecdote told me by a friend who used to work with Oxford Scientific Films - the people who do those amazing close-ups of insects and the like that you sometimes see on Attenborough's series. He said a lot of that stuff was filmed from a studio mounted on rails for infinite moveability. The thing was like a little room, packed with gear, weighed somewhere north of a ton, and could be moved along the rail by a little finger, so finely engineered was it.
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Nigel Farage sold a Short Stirling just before the EU referendum, I heard...
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
4 Bristols !
Levo-Lon
Guru
Unfortunately I'm not a boob man or I'd love that plane!!
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
They had to extend the undercarriage, I think it was to alter the angle of attack for the wing on take off. The wingspan was also restricted to 100 ft in order to fit in the hangars , yet they allowed the Lancaster to have a wingspan greater than 100ft.
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classic33
Leg End Member
Lancaster developed from the Manchester, which was designed at the same time as the Stirling. Which had a similar wingspan.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Yes , it had 2 Rolls Royce Vulture engines in the shape of an X which were very unreliable. Handley Page heard of the problems and designed the Halifax to take 4 engines instead.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
Not a Stirling engine, but I once noticed this gadget in a pub. It was a glass jar containing a metal disc, which revolved when the sun was shining. I could not work out how it worked. Slightly surprisingly the landlord did know, but I have forgotten the explanation. I have seen that landlord wealding a soldering iron, and it was a real ale pub.
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derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
Yes, it was something like that. How does it work?