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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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GH85Carrera

03-05-2019 07:10 AM

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craigster59

03-05-2019 08:16 AM

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kach22i

03-05-2019 08:57 AM

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GH85Carrera

03-05-2019 08:59 AM

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widebody911

03-05-2019 12:20 PM

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GH85Carrera

03-05-2019 12:24 PM

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URY914

03-05-2019 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10377569)

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

03-05-2019 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10377569)

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.

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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.

kach22i

03-05-2019 12:43 PM

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

GH85Carrera

03-05-2019 12:53 PM

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Seahawk

03-05-2019 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10377569)

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

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Brits could not have been more accommodating.

beatnavy

03-05-2019 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 10378556)

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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