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Wow!!! A very very awesome post here on DRB!!! What about the A380 though? Is it not going to be one of the biggest planes when it becomes more common in service soon??
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Antonov isn't Russian, but an Ukrainian plane. It was constructed during the Soviet Union years, though.
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It should be A-380 in the text now... fixed.
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Great article! Keep it up.
Grz, Godius
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One you missed- Boeing have butchered a 747 in order to make something capable of carrying 787 fuselage parts- as they can' go hiring an Airbus now, can they? The thing is called the "Large Cargo Freighter" (LCF), and has a huge barrel fuselage starting about where the "bump" should go back down.
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Love the article!
What was that lockheed nuclear plane called? Where can I read more about the concept?
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and no pic or anything abaot the DO-X
??? DORNIER ..was the best!!!
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The powered version of the Me 321 Gigant was designated the Me 323.
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Note that in the Antonov An-225 landing gear picture the first tyre is bald with a little bit of canvas showing through at the base. I guess there are a few other tyres to take the strain when that one blows out ;)
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Yeah, the Antonov was on the Ukranian property at the time of the split and they managed to snatch it.
Was made by Russians originally for the Buran space shuttle.
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DanG! Did you notice the size of those cannons on the Russian Ka-7? Wow due that thing meant serious business.
Jiff
www.anonymize.us.tc
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I wish someone would supersize my Mercury Cougar.
filthyrichmond.blogspot
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the last picture is a boeing 747, not the a380.
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I was always hoping for a plane that would span 20 floors/levels high, sorta an apartment complex in the air.
I guess that would have been the next step had zeppelins actually been sustainable.
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Surprised you didn't include the aircraft that the An-225 was based on, the An-124. This is also bigger than the biggest US cargo aircraft, the C-5.
A few monster-sized planes left out that are also impressive:
A cargo version of the B-36 was built: the XC-99. Only one was built, and after service as a cargo carrier in the Korean War was put out to pasture. It is currently awaiting restoration at the USAF Museum.
The Martin Mars, four of which were built in the 1940s for the US Navy, were the largest flying-boats to enter service. Two are still flying, as enormous water-bombers fighting fires in British Columbia.
Along the same lines, the Saunders-Roe Princess was designed after WWII to fill a perceived need for a luxurious long-distance flying-boat passenger liner. Unfortunately, delays in construction along with the advent of more practical long-range airliners (such as the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, based on the B-29) killed any hope of the Princess going into service.
The Bristol Brabazon was designed by the same committee that outlined the need for the Princess. This huge prop airliner, around the same size as a 747, was only built to carry about 100 passengers and was deemed economically unfeasible.
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The Atlant maybe the only plane able to carry something bigger than itself, but it certainly isn't the only one to carry something heavier than itself. The PAC Cresco has a dry weight of about 1.3 tonnes, but can carry 2 tonnes of cargo off the ground.
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The Spruce Goose flew for a mile, not 70 feet. 70 feet is the altitude it reached, not the distance.
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The Guppy looks kind of um... hydrocephalic...
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The AN-225 was actually on the ground in Philadelphia at the time of the split. It sat around for a couple of weeks waiting for a decision to be made about to where it was going to fly "home."
Eventually declared a Ukrainian ship, local Ukrainian immigrants helped set up fund raisers for the crew, including tours of the massive beast (I got inside, what a marvelous piece of engineering.)
I remember they had a Christmas tree set up in a corner of the cavernous hold. They sold souvenirs-Pins and postcards.
I have a coffee cup that says:
MRIYA
Philadelphia-Ukraine
November 15-17,1991.
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Jeremy - great info, will go into Part 2
Jeff - flight length fixed
Mriya coffee cup would be something that DRB store would sell :)
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The first Ka-7 pic (the one with the cannon) is obviously fake. Impressive aircraft nonetheless, had no idea it existed until I read this article. The Russian aviation museum in the link was also new to me. Thanks!
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I recall attending an airshow outside of Boston. To enter the show the crowd walked through a C-5, that's a big plane. Come to think of it, it was the same day a bunch of us were crowded into the tail of a KC135 tanker when a crewman came back and asked us to slowly walk forward so the nose wheel wouldn't slam back down onto the tarmac too hard. Aircraft wheelies! Too cool.
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The first Ka-7 picture is not a Ka-7, it's something much bigger, which almost certainly was never built. The ka-7had six, then in later modification, seven engines.
This monster, in cg image form, not a real photo, has at least ten engines, many more wheels, a vastly larger fuselage...
I'd be interested, though, to find the original source of that image...
Oh.. and the truck is not a soviet 1930s truck either... looks more american in origin.
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i think the super guppy is kind of cute. some rich guy should turn one into a luxurious flying mansion.
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I like all the aero planes, especially the old ones. There is a history covered in these pictures. I also have a great collection of my favorite jet planes and soon I will exhibit them.
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Well, if some countries get off their asses and give Beriev some funding, we'll have a new king of the skies - and it'll be amphibious to boot. The Beriev Be-2500 is planned to have a 156m wingspan!! That's almost double the An-225's
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In the mid 1970's, I was at an air show in Cleveland. They had a C-5A Galaxy there. To give you an idea of the size of this brute, there were three members of the aircrew standing on top of the horizontal stabilizer, flying a kite!
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Good post, but why is it that people always manage to forget that the Wright Brothers WEREN'T the first to manage sustained flight, and that the first was actually Richard Pearse, only a few days earlier, or weeks perhaps, than the Wright Brothers, across the world down in a little place called NEW ZEALAND!!! Just because we're small, it doesn't mean we should be forgotten. The two flights were completely unrelated, btw.
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Wowwwww..!! what an impressive collection.
Thanks for sharing this insightful view of the aviation industry, i always found it very intriguing.
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There was another "monster" that is almost an aircraft. It flew, but not very high. Some of the WIG or Wing In Ground effect aircraft were huge. These Ekranoplan types were called the "Caspian Sea Monsters". http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/lun_ekranoplan.pl
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Aqui em Portugal, agora usamos expressões para expressar o quão boa uma gaja é, assim: "Olha que avião! Comi-a toda..." ou "É mema boa! É um autêntico 747..." Nesse caso acho que a Beyonce seria um A380 a Ivanka Trump o An-225 e a Lucy Pinder um C-5 Galaxy
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Here is the translation of this comment from Portuguese:
"Here in Portugal, now we use words to express how good it is a girl, thus: "Look at that plane! Ate it all ..." or "It's good MEMA, it is an authentic 747 ..." In this case I think that Beyonce would be an A380 Ivanka Trump to the An-225 Lucy Pinder and a C-5 Galaxy"
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Anonymous said...
i think the super guppy is kind of cute. some rich guy should turn one into a luxurious flying mansion.
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Or a small flying Country! The rich guy would now be the president or king. And secede from his country of origin, and invite others. Just a thought.
The idea's based loosely on
this.
Give it a Splat!
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Awesome picks! These picks are enough to motivate some students to make the career as commercial pilot. Some flight schools also give
online pilot training to the students. So, interested students can take the information and training from these sites.
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GREAT post. you always post a couple of things I've never seen before.
Another aircraft I recommend checking out is the 'Tarrant Tabor'. An amazing but disasterous machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrant_Tabor
http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/tabor/tabor-3.jpg
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Aces up, Avi! Excellent stuff!
Came across this a while ago -- Saunders-Roe was approached by P&O Lines about a titanic flying boat for the London-Sydney run. SARO began designs for a 1000 passenger airliner with five decks and 24 Rolls-Royce jet engines (!!!!!!!)
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread198736/pg1
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source of the CG KA-7/K-7 rendering:
http://www.rusring.net/~levin/k7/k777.htm
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The Urban Camouflage is in China, not North Korea.
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[...] So very, very cool [...]
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>> "Scientists claim that sharks kill
>> "without ill will... Yeah, right."
Yeah, right?
So you would trust your personal emotions, or urban legends, rather than scientific experiments?
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That was sarcasm / irony. Scientists are right, of course.
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Irony aside you seem to be pushing the usual shark line (just liek all the shark documentary that spout a conservation lien or two but are mostly 'blood in the water' recreations). A passing comment about the plummeting number of most species and the involvement of gratuitous catching and killing as 'trophies' would have been appreciated.
A shark attack is by defintion "provoked" by something and those of us who grew up in area where sharks can be found know that the 'always hungry, perfect killing machine' blah blah blah line is most just a moral panic. Shark attacks are rare and either freak attacks of someone swimming where locals would have told them not to.
Sharks are fascinating for reasons other than having teeth. Recent telemetry data from Australiasia show how great whites migrate over previously unsuspected huge distances. So even when we protect them in one area they can still be wiped out in other. perhaps some stories like that might be nice?
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Before getting the wrong idea about these noble creatures, I suggest that you all try and get a hold of the following movie called "Sharkwater"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856008/
These noble creatures have been around for 400,000 years and are slowly being rendered extinct by Asian companies who set up illegal sharkfin businesses in Costa Rica. All for supposedly aphrodisical purposes.
In addition, sharks are not the blood thirsty predators that Hollywood has made us think they are. Get this movie, watch it- then see how your views change as to who the real monsters are.
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Co Writer-Lauren
In my original article, the "Yeah right" was not present.
Just in case me friends at Triond check this out, the article has been changed to fit the guidelines of this website. Thanks for understanding.
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Indeed sharks rarely attack people without some kind of provocation, unless their usual behavior have changed because of some ecological accident or poisoning of the big fish.
You can count the number of shark attacks on your fingers (mostly in Australia I mean, and only with your hand's fingers).
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Awesoommee! So awesome. One day I'd like to go to the coast of South Africa so I can watch those bad boys jump into the air catching their "snacks." You outdid yourself with this one. Too cool.
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Oh my...I may never get back in the water.
Kim Buck
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Thanks so much for the comments everyone. This was a fun piece to write.
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Excellent and impressive!
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Great article!
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I usually get scared when I go into the ocean. The water, you can't see more then an inch so who knows whats down there. These pictures don't help!
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Stunning ... cool ... fantastic
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You know, I think I've just gone off snorkeling.
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Sharks do have bones in their bodies. Their upper and lower jaws. That Ghost Shark does not not look like a shark, because it has dorsal fin rays. Also, THE coolest things about sharks is that they do not have intestines, they have a spiral valve that is much more orderly than our 26 feet of guts and they have Ampules of Lorenzini. The ampules are able to detect muscle contractions through electrical discharge in the water. Each shark comes equipped with these little detectors for all the other items in the sea that have muscles in them.
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Thank you Zav, most enlightening comment... Spiral valve FTW
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Very nice article.
But I'll probably never swim in the ocean again:)
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We contact every photographer (wherever the source is known) and obtain permissions from them. If the source is not known, we ask for more info and will take photo down if needed.
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As a person who's frequently in the water, I find it very disturbing that people (photographers, tourism operators etc.) are teaching sharks to approach boats to be hand-fed. These creatures are very intelligent - Great Whites can swim thousands of kilometres/miles to arrive at a known feeding spot on the same day each year. So why would anyone with a brain be teaching such creatures to approach boats for a treat? What happens if you’re in the boat, and you have no shark treats?? Seriously, folks, keep your distance from sharks. They are wild creatures, and they don’t need to be close to us. We have a bad record for species extermination.
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the first ghost shark photo is actually a Chimaera monstrosa
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Great article! I love anything shark-related, and this was some new information for me. Keep writing!
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"Mystery Machine -- Good for "UFO", or "Dr. Who" TV series, for sure - but anybody has more info?"
'Tis science fact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain
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hi all,
congratulations for this blog (one of my very favourite!
just a precision about the Oktapodi movie: it's been done by students of the Gobelins' school (Paris)
which is one of the finest french animation school. you'll find some of their works here : http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/ at the bottom of the page, there's a link to earlier student's works.
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Wow nicoptere - some great animation on this site! Thank you!
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interesting post, as usual.
in scotland we call them 'doocots' a 'doo' being a pigeon.
one really nice one here, and a few rather less nice urban ones from hidden glasgow
http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/doocots/index.htm
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Your blog is simply amazing.
In Israel we have quite a few dove columbariums chiseled in stone inside vast underground cave complexes. These caves are assumed to be places of hiding that the Judean rebels built and fortified in preparation for their rebel against the Roman empire:
http://www.parks.org.il/ParksENG/company_card.php3?CNumber=509499
BTW, I think that many times the doves were kept not only for their droppings, but also for their meat. A known Palestinian dish is stuffed dove.
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In my home town (Cincinnati OH), they brought in pigeons decades ago to get rid of the insects.
Now they need to get rid of all the pigeons!
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In Hungary too you find specific pigeon houses.
above the gate at the entrance of the land, there is a pigeon house whose size and details reflect the wealth and status of the landowner
(forgot the name, only been there years ago).
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The English Pigeon tower is situated in Rivington near Bolton in Lancashire. It was originally built by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme in the early 1900's. Although the first two floors were used as dovecotes, the top floor was actually a sewing room for Lady Leverhulme.
William Lever is famous for founding the Lever Brothers soap company which eventually became the huge international conglomerate Unilever.
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Thanks for using my picture; I had no idea the post was going to be so interesting. Great read!
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I think that the photo labeled:
And a stunning neo-classical(?) "French Shrine to the Pigeon"
looks like the museum of Salvador Dali in Firgures, Spain. Great collection!
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Dali Museum? Close, but not
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Brasilia, Brazil has a pigeon tower designed by Oscar Niemayer
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pombal%20brasilia&w=all&s=int
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Here's a temple-style pigeon house I found in Suwon, South Korea.
http://www.daehanmindecline.com/digital/indecline/20041106hwaseong/72.JPG
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I'm from Iran and we didn't use these towers to make them happy! There are some reasons:
1. To eat their meats and their eggs!
2. To use their droppings for fertilizer. This could be the main reason, because most of pigeon towers are built near farms and fields.
3. To have some entertainment! (take care of them as pet and/or to participate them to a flying race!)
4. And use them as a courier.
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There are near 1000! pigeon buildings in Palencia, a province of Spain:
http://www.castromocho.com/palomares.html
http://es.geocities.com/mmalmier/pueblos.htm
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What a great post! Pigeons so got it good everywhere else. What happened over here, that's what I wanna know?
Your pal
Brian Pigeon
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What a fantastic collection of photos of pigeon houses. Best I have ever seen. You really help preserve the history of this bird as an essential part of early farming and communication. Thanks!
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your post pictures always leave me entertained.
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The picture below "And get this guy off my tree!" is from a statue in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Leidsche Bosje). It is a "guerilla statue", its creator and exact placing date are unknown.
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The face in the tree looks just like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!
The photo of the two overturned giant trucks is obviously a fake - they're identical, it's one truck, copied and pasted (possibly not even really overturned.)
buuuuut you probably already know that. :D
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Bassem,
Look closer, They're obviously the same Model of truck. Now take a look at the rust spots, and the wear spots, notice anything? How about the driver side windows? one is glared, the other, not (it's at a slightly different angle than the first). And what about the Driver side mirrors? how the dirt lays at the end of the bed?
I'm not saying they're absolutely not a fake - if it is, it's pretty convincing, but they're definitely not the exact same truck copied and pasted.
You really need to go play that "find the difference in these pictures" video games they have in dive bars.
-Gyi2os
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my mother helped build the z machine here in albuquerque ive seen it in the non working state but the pic of it working is amazing...im proud to say my mom helped with that
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Nah, those trucks have photoshop written all over them. Front wheels turned exactly the same amount, rear wheels buried exactly the same amount, etc.
Can't wait to actually see those ground effect planes in action.
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hi there! I like the design of your blog and very funny pictures!.. anyway, i just stubled upon here from google.. what can I say? I must subscribe to your feed =)
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"We at DRB in no way endorsing such means and are positively appalled at her actions:"
yeah right, that was awesome and you know it.
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Hilarious. I've had your blog bookmarked for 2 years. I check your updates everyday, and in 2 yrs. I've never been disapointed with the quality of posts! Keep up the good work!
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A very small nit to pick:
Thanks much for linking to my blog, 'I'm Learning To Share'. I'm thrilled to be included anywhere, but you've given me credit for the wrong image.
ILTS wasn't the origin of the lobster-baby-in-a-pot image, but rather 'You're a bad Mommy', which came from the vintage Castoria advertisement I posted
here...
Still - - A great collection of photos! Just the sort of thing that keeps me coming back again and again to DRB!
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the in crowd - that was a mixup, got fixed. you have an awesome blog for vintage graphics, really like it.
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Taking care for little kids is frightening sometimes, and your post even makes me scared to my nephew. Anyway good posting, keep your job!
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no manbabies?
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this is very interesting...Some of those pictures were
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Ha! I thought that video clip was for real for a moment - and most of those commenting on the YouTube page seem to think so as well! As they are taking it so depressingly seriously. It's from the Reno 911 comedy series if anyone wants to know. That disturbing figure in the suite at the back is almost more disturbing than the gunshot!
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Its just remind me of the movie License to Wed where Robin Williams as priest.
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There's just so much wrong there....
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There is a museum in Bonn, Germany called Arithmeum full of these types of calculators. Even a few with manuals so you can try them out.
"The Arithmeum was openend in 1999. With over 1,200 objects it has the world's largest collection of historical mechanical calculating machines. The museum is affiliated with the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics." (Wikipedia article on University of Bonn)
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Wow! They sure dont make them like they used to now do they! LOL.
Jiff
www.anonymize.kr.tc
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It is a shame that while incarcerated and working on a mechanical calculator, the fellows over at Bletchly Park were working on building programmable computers.
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I used one of those calculators... my father was an engineer and had one in his office.
Yes it was a marvel, the only device of it's type that was really portable.
As I dimly recall, it was quite expensive back in the day.
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Ah well, first William Gibson wrote about them and I could not longer to buy one. Now you picked up on it, dang it, so I'll still be unable to acquire one!
Almost as fun: slide rules!
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These were very popular with car rallyists in the 60's and early 70's to calculate the time you should be at a particular spot. My navigator used one for many years and I have fond memories of its subtle clicks and grinds. It was perfectly adapted to update the time going into a car rallye checkpoint, you simply spun the crank once for every .01 mile and checked this against the clock. Specialized microprocessor based computers eventually obsoleted them, but not until the late 70's.
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Those larger table mounted calc look very familiar. When I started college ('72), only the engineers had electronic calculators - HPs were THE status symbol. Us chemists had to do with mechanical computation machines for the first couple of years. I don't remember much about them except you set up the computation by twirling dials, then hit some switch and the thing went into overdirve; stuff whirred, turned, clicked, and clacked until ...ding...out came an answer. Very cool. I wish I'd had the foresight to snag one once electronic hand calculators took off.
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I still have my Curta. It's the larger of the two models.
You'll never guess what we used it for. Doing Time/Speed/Distance car rallyes with the Sports Car Club of America.
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I remember an article in _Byte_, back in the Seventies, talking about how portable music boxes - many the size and shape of goose eggs, built as the handles of canes - had greater memory storage density than any electronic memory available at the time the article was written.
Imagine something like that mated to an advanced Curta to provide operating system and non-volatile memory.
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Check out the Wikipedia article on Jacquard looms. Punch card driven Computer Aided Manufacturing waaaay before IBM developed punch cards.
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Even Apeldoorn is an insurance company, specialising in car insurance.
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The company's name is Centraal Beheer Achmea. Apeldoorn is the location of their main office.
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B-52 is fake. they can't break the speed of sound.
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re popping popcorn with cellphones - see http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/06/orville-redenba.html
Yeah, the popcorn cell phone trick is a fake viral video ad. Old news.
The Lite Mate looks like one of the bizarre typewriters from Naked Lunch...
Pretty sure that cat in a SCUBA suit was from an ad for kitty litter.
Great site- full of very interesting things!! love the posting on "The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth"
www.fishmix.net
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