Would've been cheaper and simpler to tow an iceberg there

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.

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.

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...

I wonder how many Mini Coopers would fit on to one of our new carriers? :p
mmitch.

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.

mmitch - quiet day so:

3023 classic Mini Coopers, 1822 BMW plastig pigs, or 0 Harriers :E

I didn't know they were made of thinner steel - this would explain why mine concertinaed when I hit some armco in mine :{

WF:ok:

Thanks for the calculations! Useful info for NCP. They could use them while the Navy wait for their F35s!
mmitch.

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?

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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 :E

WF:ok:

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