Holy crap.
Here I was thinking you had shown this in regard to the Burning Amp Festival letters on the plane.
I was going to ask where to buy tickets.
Early on in my time in the drawing office and without much experience designing injection moulds, I questioned Bill my older and vastly knowledgeable colleague who had worked for Ekco Plastics in the past, how do you work out how much steel to use for the bolster (the frame of the mould). His answer was if it looks right...
That don't look right.
Same goes for those ridiculously massive cruise ships😱
PMMA, perspex was also used on the Spitfire cockpit canopy.
I'll refrain from using the n word😉
Your mention inspired me to learn more about Spitfires that were converted for the photo reconnaissance role.
Weapons were replaced with fuel tanks to give the Spitfire an exceptional range. They were able to fly all over occupied Europe to determine the status of the RAF’s and U.S. Army Air Forces’ bombing missions.
Without weapons, though, Spitfires could be sitting ducks to anti-aircraft fire which led to them being painted pink to blend in with the sky at sunrise and sunset.
I read it here: https://www.wearethemighty.com/migh...to reconnaissance and bomb damage assessments.
P.S. I had to look up the acronym PMMA to find that it stands for polymethyl methacrylate.
Perspex should strictly be written as Perspex®, indicating that it is one of the registered brand names for cast acrylic sheet.
The name Perspex was first registered in the UK in 1934 and became a synonym for acrylic in the same way that Hoover is synonymous with vacuum cleaner.
There are other registered brand names for acrylic of course, including Lucite® and Plexiglass® which are better known in the U.S.
Finally, did you know that the word perspex was derived from the Latin perspect meaning "to look through"?
Learning all the time!
The name Perspex was first registered in the UK in 1934 and became a synonym for acrylic in the same way that Hoover is synonymous with vacuum cleaner.
There are other registered brand names for acrylic of course, including Lucite® and Plexiglass® which are better known in the U.S.
Finally, did you know that the word perspex was derived from the Latin perspect meaning "to look through"?
Learning all the time!
Bonkers. I'm astonished they got it off the ground. According to Wikipedia the wings are 2m thick and the passenger version was going to have seats in the wings. Also, what look like pontoon floats would also have had gun turrets?
Looks similar to the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. My father flew one during WW-II.
https://www.google.com/search?q=p-38+lightning
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Always thought the P38 looked 'the business'. Your dad flew them in Europe or Pacific?
He was in the Pacific. For most of the war he was the copilot on a B25. Shot down twice. I think he only flew the P38 a few times as bomber support. His parents were notified that he was MIA, presumed dead, about a month after he was shot down the second time. Several months later they held a funeral/memorial service. A month or two later he showed up at home unannounced. The war ended before he was reactivated. For most of the bombing runs he was dropping powdered metal over Tokyo which would ignite frying people on the ground. He was never mentally right after the war and tried to quench the guilt with alcohol for 35 years or so until his health forced him to quit drinking.
Its a tragedy that never goes. I had a grandfather that enlisted in 1914, I don't know exactly where he fought, but according to my grandmother he was buried in a trench collapse and also gassed at some point.
According to his discharge papers he was A1 when he enlisted and 4F on discharge in 1918. Grandmother said the man she got back was not the one who left. He had night sweats and nightmares that woke him screaming for the rest of his life.
He was not a nice man and made life miserable for his wife and children...
Ditto. I was deemed "His biggest mistake." I left home at age 19 and broke communication for a few years until one of my two brothers found me 40 miles away. It would take several more years until we could be in the same house for a few hours, and a few incidents still occurred for several years. Oddly the whole Y2K boondoggle resulted in the final peace treaty. Both of my parents really believed that the world was going to end at midnight on the day of Y2K rollover. I was the only one of their children that went to stay with them that night after months of trying to explain why it was not a real threat.