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Offline grumm441

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2760 on: July 07, 2012, 09:01:13 PM »
It's like I'm on the other side of the planet :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2761 on: July 07, 2012, 09:07:24 PM »
I feel like I'm on the other side of the planet twice...

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2762 on: July 08, 2012, 02:19:39 AM »
I am on the other side of the planet & it's still yesterday :?
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2763 on: July 08, 2012, 08:16:08 AM »
I am on the other side of the planet & it's still yesterday :?
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I went to the pictures tomorrow,
and bought the front seat at the back.
I fell from the floor to the ceiling,
and hurt the front part of my back?

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2764 on: July 12, 2012, 05:53:27 AM »
Well, no-one told me not to say this....there is another lakester in the making ...now because I am aware of the sensitivities I'm not going to refer to it as a BELLYTANK as it has been made clear elsewhere that "only cars made from actual bellytanks should be called bellytanks, the others are wingtanks".......Ha!

Whatever, the big deal is that this new car will built using a Canberra tank, yep, just like ours. It's a member of the landracing.com forum ....hmmm, how did we find out ?.....well The Reverend got a PM wondering whether we had the 3D stuff we used when we built the Spirit of Sunshine.

That was a massive amount of work building that info up and far from trying to amortise the cost of our time and effort we are thrilled to bits that there is someone else out there who can use it .

I'm confident that they'll break cover soon.......................it's a strange feeling but now I don't feel like a new guy anymore.

Hey Ralph,

have some manners mate, yes, this is the theatre of the insane but you need to do your qualifying passes and you've skipped "out there" on your way to "odd" and besides,poetry needs to be approved before it appears on this thread...just in case you wondered Sid has his AA license and I'm older than him anyway........Have you decided what you're going to run next year?..........by the time you get your liner built I'm going to park the SOS and just watch the bike liners, you , Jon, Ross( :roll:) Bones....um....Lucky...... it won't be boring.

Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2765 on: July 12, 2012, 02:53:11 PM »
That whole "wing tank belly tank thing" is a bunch of crap Mate! The "32" of all belly tanks is "supposedly" the P38 & that mutha was mounted to the wing! They're just all sexy bitches.
See ya over here soon, ya old fart! Leave room in your bag for another tank.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2766 on: July 12, 2012, 05:00:34 PM »
if that is the case the Wild Weasle is one of a kind TRUE BELLY TANKER---it rode INSIDE of the bomb bay hence a TRUE BELLY TANKERS---that would make all that rode outside ---  :evil:  want-a-be's  :-D
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2767 on: July 12, 2012, 06:01:59 PM »
That whole "wing tank belly tank thing" is a bunch of crap Mate! The "32" of all belly tanks is "supposedly" the P38 & that mutha was mounted to the wing! They're just all sexy bitches.
See ya over here soon, ya old fart! Leave room in your bag for another tank.
  Sid.

Just stirrin Sid........but, now I'm a little worried, we might be recognized as a "type"....before I know it I'll be standing next to SOS one day and some-guy will point out to me that with just a little bit of work we could be just like a classic Canberra bellytanker, but that we've done a good job all the same.

Are those Stan's footsteps I hear?

Bill, attached to the OUTSIDE of the belly, not um from inside it, that's another thing again........
Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2768 on: July 12, 2012, 11:59:24 PM »
SO do I have a Woomb Tank as in WomBAT :-o
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2769 on: July 13, 2012, 06:04:44 AM »
have some manners mate,

It was my Dad's 90th birthday party two weeks ago, while at dinner I was showing him how I could cleverly get a piece of his spaghetti to go in through my nose and out of my mouth.  He was unimpressed and suggested that anyone would think that I had been dragged up, not brought up... I laughed and the spaghetti then liberated landed in Mum's hair.  No one of course said anything because it would have upset her to have known how it got there... So good point! 

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2770 on: July 13, 2012, 08:55:11 AM »
Oh you're undoubtedly a "type" Goggs, but thats irrelevant to the tank.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2771 on: July 13, 2012, 09:54:33 PM »
Oh you're undoubtedly a "type" Goggs, but thats irrelevant to the tank.
  Sid.

Indeed
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2772 on: July 15, 2012, 08:22:57 AM »
How that you are married james you may need to get some knowledge in the operation of this little unit .


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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2773 on: July 15, 2012, 10:56:43 AM »
Despite his modeling and prototype abilities, Hoke was a liar, a cheat and a plagiarist.  The basis for the REG was all worked out by the RAND Corporation in the late 1940's -

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2774 on: July 15, 2012, 11:09:19 AM »
In 1986 I was traveling by bus in the US some quite large distances and I always met extraordinary people on these trips. One guy had an uncanny resemblance to Stevie Ray Vaughn and told me he was a number prospector. What he searched for was prime numbers. He showed me a one dollar bill whose serial number was a prime number.

I think he may have had a mild form of Aspergers (doesn't everybody on this website?) but it was only years later that I actually understood what he told me he was using them for: large scale encryption technologies.

Rand may have indeed invented the tool, but it took others to find the use for that kind of tool later...

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