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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Do you ever tire of reinforcing your profound ignorance regarding every topic on which you choose to comment?

Higgins is Irish. About the furthest from a German surname possible. Higgins is an Irish family name with ancient royal connections. It is an anglicisation of O'hUigin, from the Irish word 'uiginn' meaning Viking.

Irish Surname - Higgins

Kach should rent "My fair lady"...

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https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/the-secret-lgbti-history-of-vikings-valkyries-and-norse-gods/#gs.j82EWkYr

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

These things had a horrible start to their commercial air service. The square windows were the root of the problem - multiple pressurization cycles started cracking the fuselages at the corners of the windows. Several suffered catastrophic failures as a result and went in, killing all on board. The oval windows on the one I worked on were the solution. Tragic story, really.

And people wonder why portholes in ships are round.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Sorry. My bad - I'll knock it off. Supposed to be a pictures thread.

Cool airplane. I did a little work helping to restore this one for use by Everett Community College in their airplane mechanic program.



These things had a horrible start to their commercial air service. The square windows were the root of the problem - multiple pressurization cycles started cracking the fuselages at the corners of the windows. Several suffered catastrophic failures as a result and went in, killing all on board. The oval windows on the one I worked on were the solution. Tragic story, really.

I saw one documentary about the crashes of the early British aircraft. It all came down to those windows. Had they had round windows initially they would have had a huge lead in the aviation industry, and may well have been the center of aircraft manufacturing. With the airplanes crashing no one wanted to fly on them, and they lost the lead.

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Having a VERY bad day: Driver crashes his friend's classic Corvette into a marsh and is arrested for unpaid fines
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647330/Bad-day-driver-crashed-friends-classic-Corvette-marsh-arrested-unpaid-fines.html

Sinking feeling: Aleo clambers out the rear window of the Corvette after it became submerged in salt water

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

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I have flown in, and got to drive for about 30 minutes, the RAF Nimrod:





Brits could not have been more accommodating.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I saw one documentary about the crashes of the early British aircraft. It all came down to those windows. Had they had round windows initially they would have had a huge lead in the aviation industry, and may well have been the center of aircraft manufacturing. With the airplanes crashing no one wanted to fly on them, and they lost the lead.

I saw that documentary (I think twice). Fascinating. The people who died gave their lives for lessons learned. What other industry captures and applies lessons learned as well as the aviation industry? To some degree medicine maybe? Occasionally, rarely, the military?

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The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles...with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war. Returning home, however, marked the end of this flamboyance. When he reported to his first interview with Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell, McConnell walked up to him, stuck a finger under his nose and said, 'Take it off.' Olds replied, 'Yes, sir.' "(It) was the most direct order I had received in twenty-four years of service."

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The devil ship

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