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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:08:21 PM   
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Hello Per, Martin and Simon!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:19:52 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:25:50 PM   
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Another quiz......brought to you by yours truly

Name this engine................



Rolls-Royce RB.23 Welland??? (which powered early Gloster Meteors)


Edit: Not a Welland. The manifolds from the compressor disc to the front of the combustion cans in the photo above are different to the Welland in this picture.


RR Derwent?

It's an early turbojet engine, I'd say British (or Allied) in origin because it's actually there (and iirc the Germans were working with axial flow engines). Single stage centrifugal compressor and single stage turbine mean it's early, iirc it was early 50s when twin stage centrifugals started showing.

EDIT: Not a Derwent, looks to be the wrong shape. I'd probably say that Reg is right, not least because it's probably an American engine


Reg is correct. It is not an American engine. Per the Lone Star Air Museum in Galveston Texas this a Whipple W-1. They say the serial number indicates it is one of the early ones.

Also, I Don't know if this example still exists. This photo was taken by me prior to Hurricane Ike hitting Galveston. The Lone Star Air Museum lost a lot of their non-flying exhibits. Most of the flying aircraft were relocated to safety.



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:38:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Per Wiki the Derwent is a renamed Whipple. Again, according to Wiki, the engine was renamed when they took over engine development from Rover.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:40:02 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:40:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Reg

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Another quiz......brought to you by yours truly

Name this engine................



Rolls-Royce RB.23 Welland??? (which powered early Gloster Meteors)


Edit: Not a Welland. The manifolds from the compressor disc to the front of the combustion cans in the photo above are different to the Welland in this picture.


RR Derwent?

It's an early turbojet engine, I'd say British (or Allied) in origin because it's actually there (and iirc the Germans were working with axial flow engines). Single stage centrifugal compressor and single stage turbine mean it's early, iirc it was early 50s when twin stage centrifugals started showing.

EDIT: Not a Derwent, looks to be the wrong shape. I'd probably say that Reg is right, not least because it's probably an American engine


Reg is correct. It is not an American engine. Per the Lone Star Air Museum in Galveston Texas this a Whipple W-1. They say the serial number indicates it is one of the early ones.

Also, I Don't know if this example still exists. This photo was taken by me prior to Hurricane Ivan hitting Galveston. The Lone Star Air Museum lost a lot of their non-flying exhibits. Most of the flying aircraft were relocated to safety.


I think you mean a Whittle W.1, there weren't many built anyway iirc.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:40:54 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:42:33 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:50:16 PM   
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Time to go out for Sunday lunch with mother in law...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 12:54:46 PM   
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Hi all,

Time to go out for Sunday lunch with mother in law...


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Have fun

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 1:06:18 PM   
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after looking at the naming conventions I stand corrected. You are right.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 1:12:53 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 1:19:30 PM   
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It definitely says Whittle, not Whipple. Sorry about that.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 1:54:01 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 2:24:07 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 2:25:57 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 3:53:25 PM   
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I think he means the "Wibble". The designer was notorious for wearing underpants on his head and sticking pencils up his nose.

I BELIEVE IN PEACE! AND BASHING TWO BRICKS TOGETHER!

(No wait, that was a gumby)...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 3:54:43 PM   
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Just curious how many of our FUR-EN-UR thread friends will be watching our Super Bowl today? Just curious?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 4:11:00 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 4:17:05 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 4:24:25 PM   
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Good morning, all...

Just curious how many of our FUR-EN-UR thread friends will be watching our Super Bowl today? Just curious?


Not me. Even if I was interested enough in your "football", it's on FAR too late at night, and I have to get up tomorrow morning and go to work.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 4:24:45 PM   
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Tomorrow my 2 y.o nephew is having surgery for a ruptured testicle.


Best wishes, Scott.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 4:53:53 PM   
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Tomorrow my 2 y.o nephew is having surgery for a ruptured testicle.


Best wishes, Scott.


+1.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:21:41 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:22:25 PM   
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In the office today.


Is it virtual?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:23:53 PM   
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I think he means the "Wibble". The designer was notorious for wearing underpants on his head and sticking pencils up his nose.


He being British, is that really so odd?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:24:34 PM   
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Hi all,

Time to go out for Sunday lunch with mother in law...


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Apparently she's been demoted from mother-in-love.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:26:08 PM   
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Hand up.


Is it some sort of misguided attempt to understand the American mind?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:26:46 PM   
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Tomorrow my 2 y.o nephew is having surgery for a ruptured testicle.


Thats terrible Scott. Best wishes to the tyke, his parents and you.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 2/7/2010 5:29:42 PM   
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/unholy_gasbag_boss_sued_for_reeking_KIKFRjR8bmHOOqK1QDHdxM


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