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I know it's not aircraft, but one's gotta love this analogy:
Film director James Cameron leads submarine race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench - Telegraph
Not any old Mini, you'll note, it has to be a Mini Cooper.
Film director James Cameron leads submarine race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench - Telegraph
crushing water pressure of 16,000 pounds per square inch – equivalent to 8,000 elephants standing on a Mini Cooper
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New BMW mini or old BMC Mini?
They get around BTW one of the RR displays in the old Silk Museum in Derby said if you connected a Mini to an uncontained blade failure on an RB211 it would lift it some 100 feet vertically.
They get around BTW one of the RR displays in the old Silk Museum in Derby said if you connected a Mini to an uncontained blade failure on an RB211 it would lift it some 100 feet vertically.
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The original 997cc Mk1 Mini Coopers had special lightweight bodies with thinner gauge steel.
So if they're thinking of one of those, its a different unit that for a later Mini Cooper...
So if they're thinking of one of those, its a different unit that for a later Mini Cooper...
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Or indeed elephants, mmitch.
An elementary error by The Telegraph by not specifying African or Indian either. Elephants, not Mini Coopers that is.
Would 16,000 psi would be enough to wipe the smile of Sir Richard's face? Probably, particularly if the pressure hull failed.
An elementary error by The Telegraph by not specifying African or Indian either. Elephants, not Mini Coopers that is.
Would 16,000 psi would be enough to wipe the smile of Sir Richard's face? Probably, particularly if the pressure hull failed.
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mmitch - quiet day so:
3023 classic Mini Coopers, 1822 BMW plastig pigs, or 0 Harriers
I didn't know they were made of thinner steel - this would explain why mine concertinaed when I hit some armco in mine
WF
3023 classic Mini Coopers, 1822 BMW plastig pigs, or 0 Harriers
I didn't know they were made of thinner steel - this would explain why mine concertinaed when I hit some armco in mine
WF
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I don't believe that figure for the old Coopers, My 1964 "Observers Book of Automobiles" says the 1071cc Mk1 Mini Cooper "S" weighed 12.5cwt
If you do the maths, 3023 Minis = 1889.375 tons
I'm sure the new carriers can carry more than that in weight? Or were you basing it on the cube......
However it does beg an interesting question. How far could an EMALS system throw a 1400lb shot?
If you do the maths, 3023 Minis = 1889.375 tons
I'm sure the new carriers can carry more than that in weight? Or were you basing it on the cube......
However it does beg an interesting question. How far could an EMALS system throw a 1400lb shot?
mode on...Fag packet calculation...
Classic Mini Cooper 3.05M x 1.41M = 4.3005 M2
BMW Plastic Pig 3.73 x 1.913 = 7.1355 M2
QE class flight deck ~ 13,000 M2
Classic MC = 3023 per QECC
BMW = 1822 per QECC
I'll give you that you might have to chop them up a bit use every bit of space on deck
WF
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