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Gorilla Salad posted:As an Australian, I would use the very technical term "small truck" to describe them. ha, like we can trust some foreigner
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Gorilla Salad posted:As an Australian, I would use the very technical term "small truck" to describe them. I figured Australians would call them Boxy Rollies.
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What would they call your mom then
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Mozi posted:Just put another trampoline on the ground and there you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaANi96Z-Wg&t=96s
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I finally get to post something in my favorite thread. A local school got demolished so a time capsule sealed in 1926 got opened. Inside was an article mentioning the The Crash of the Shenandoah so I looked it up. quote:USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–23 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew in September 1923. It developed the U.S. Navy's experience with rigid airships, and made the first crossing of North America by airship. On the 57th flight,[2] Shenandoah was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio in September 1925 Must have been a helluva squall. She looked so sturdy!  quote:On 2 September 1925, Shenandoah departed Lakehurst on a promotional flight to the Midwest that would include flyovers of 40 cities and visits to state fairs. Testing of a new mooring mast at Dearborn, Michigan, was included in the schedule. While passing through an area of thunderstorms and turbulence over Ohio early in the morning of 3 September, during its 57th flight,[2] the airship was caught in a violent updraft that carried it beyond the pressure limits of its gas bags. It was torn apart in the turbulence and crashed in several pieces near Caldwell, Ohio. Fourteen crew members, including Commander Zachary Lansdowne, were killed. This included every member of the crew of the control cabin (except for Lieutenant Anderson, who escaped before it detached from the ship); two men who fell through holes in the hull; and several mechanics who fell with the engines. There were twenty-nine survivors, who succeeded in riding three sections of the airship to earth.   quote:Two schools of thought developed about the cause of the crash. One theory is that the gas cells over-expanded as the ship rose, due to Lansdowne’s decision to remove the 10 automatic release valves, and that the expanding cells damaged the framework of the airship and led to its structural failure. There are numerous memorial sites scattered across the countryside. Because of debris? Yeah, human debris. At least the lieutenant got out  E: lmao the hull was stripped clean by local looters. The farmer who owned the land the wreckage was on charged people to come look at it. crime fighting hog fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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crime fighting hog posted:At least the lieutenant got out That’s why they called him “left tenant”.
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Platystemon posted:That’s why they called him “left tenant”. "Sorry chaps, it's been an honor!"
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Platystemon posted:That’s why they called him “left tenant”. Lieutenant actully pretty much means placeholder, so the opposite of that if you think about it.
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Atticus_1354 posted:I figured Australians would call them Boxy Rollies. Ahem, "boxos", they're not flamin poms y'know.
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bitterandtwisted posted:God bless Thomas Midgley Probably one of the better "obscure" answers to the classic question of "if you had a timemachine who would you kill?"
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Atticus_1354 posted:I figured Australians would call them Boxy Rollies. You mean like 'Plane Stations'?
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xtal posted:What would they call your mom then Mary?
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dregan posted:Mary? Jesus Christ!
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This page is the best.
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Phimosissy posted:Jesus Christ! Judas Priest!
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Judas Priest! Frankie Lee!
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Phanatic posted:Frankie Lee! Geddy Lee!
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toplitzin posted:Geddy Lee! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVh_C7XTHA
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crime fighting hog posted:
yeah the US navy experimented with airships in the 1930s. every single one of them crashed, and this was even with the massive technological advantage called "helium" because the united states basically controlled the world supply of it, extracted from natural gas on the bright side, it did lead to the hilarious, experimental flying aircraft carrier which is osha as heck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDuUjMyWb18 boner confessor fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8eTQ38yfA&t=35s Wish it recorded what the explosion sounded like
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8eTQ38yfA&t=35s It was probably all like PSCHHHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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There's a marker off 77 indicating the site of the wreck of the USS Shenandoah. Dad had me believing for a while that a battleship somehow crashed in the middle of a field in Ohio.
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8eTQ38yfA&t=35s I'm just imagining before the audio recording kicks on the officer going "why do I have to be the police?" in this tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuE0z3gG3c I'm sure the last thing he wants to do is drive towards the explosion.
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wolrah posted:I'm just imagining before the audio recording kicks on the officer going "why do I have to be the police?" in this tone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuE0z3gG3c "I'm sorry but your Cool Cop Training should have taught you that the proper response to a badass explosion is to walk slowly away and ignore it. Turn in your badge and gun."
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I hate people who are too lazy to clean the snow off the top of their cars. This makes me rage
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"two-oh-nine, you might wanna back your unit up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsxjKJDja4
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Chlamyllionaire posted:There's a marker off 77 indicating the site of the wreck of the USS Shenandoah. Dad had me believing for a while that a battleship somehow crashed in the middle of a field in Ohio.
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Gorilla Salad posted:As an Australian, I would use the very technical term "small truck" to describe them. Alright then, as an Australian with an MC heavy vehicle license, let me clear all this mess up. That's a rigid pantec, if it had 2 drive axels it'd be a bogie drive rigid pantec. If it had curtains it'd be a rigid tautliner/curtainsider, if it had nothing it's just a flatbed. A "tractor" is a prime mover. A semi-trailer is a prime mover with 40/45" trailer and is referred to also called a single. A prime mover with two 40" trailers with a turntable (5th wheel) on the back of the first (A trailer) to connect to the second trailer (B trailer) is a B-double, adding another A trailer to the front is a B-triple. The same again, but with two shorter trailers and a total overall length under 19m is still technically a B-double, but more colloquially referred to as a set of pocket doubles. A primer mover with a 40" trailer, then a dolly connected to another 40" trailer is a double train, another dolly and trailer is a triple train. The largest road legal combination without special permits, but only allowed in a few select remote areas, is the AB quad road train, a 40" trailer then a dolly then a B-triple and is about 50 meters long and around 125 tonne total gross (I can't remember the exact limits) Hope everyone learned something about Australian road transport today.
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Americans would just call that a box truck I hope I don't have to explain the etymology
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Is it shaped like a box? Or because it ships boxes? Does it come in one?
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Synthbuttrange posted:Is it shaped like a box? Or because it ships boxes? It’s a truck with a box on the back. Hence, “box truck”. Flat bed trucks have flat beds. American nomenclature is very original.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Is it shaped like a box? Or because it ships boxes? Correct.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdamqu3SzQ air crash investigation videos are interesting exercises in OSHA stuff this vid is particularly noteworthy, airbus have a public demonstration of their new plane, the first ever fly by wire commercial plane, and doing a low pass at an air show the pilot crashes into a forest. whoops. JFairfax fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8eTQ38yfA&t=35s 
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Jack Ohman is the best loving cartoonist ever and I am pissed my local paper (The Oregonian) lost him.
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Powershift posted:It was probably all like BADASSSCHHHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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haha neat do you think there were any survivors
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8eTQ38yfA&t=35s Badass or piss, take your pick.
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hory poo poo pisssss the free market will fix it
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