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Cheers Rick!! I’ll have a look!!! I wonder how I missed that! More surgery when I find it. Still, a good exercise!! (And another lesson learned - check and double check)
Actually Doug, I wrote that comment then double checked and found I was thinking of the 1/72 kit. I didn’t delete that draft statement so when I replied to Andy it was still there. I’ve edited it now.Cheers Rick!! I’ll have a look!!! I wonder how I missed that! More surgery when I find it. Still, a good exercise!! (And another lesson learned - check and double check)
Problem is!!! I have found the part!! F49!! Trouble now, well not really trouble, I now cannot find any reference to F49 in the destructions. Not even an image!!Actually Doug, I wrote that comment then double checked and found I was thinking of the 1/72 kit. I didn’t delete that draft statement so when I replied to Andy it was still there. I’ve edited it now.
Hi Andrea, as Rick said, the 'P'tube is the correct height and help in place by an open ended clip. The length gave the user a wee bit of flexibility to move around a little. After struggling with your doings on your immersion suit you needed the extra length!!! It was the responsibility of the user to clean the thing after use. (Needless to say - it wasn't used too often).A maybe silly question: isn't the P tube a tad high?
Considering its name, shape and position, I came to the conclusion its function is to ease the crew bladders, heavily challenged by the vibrations and cold during long flights.
If I'm right, then or the users had to bend their head and raise on their feet to reach it or the tube is not fixed but detachable to be bent to the needed height...
If I'm wrong and the P tube has a different use, then this is a first class silly question
Thank you, Doug and Rick. I saw a P tube on a C130; I didn't examined it from close distance (guess why! ) but it looked as if it was fixed, that's why I had that doubt.Hi Andrea, as Rick said, the 'P'tube is the correct height and help in place by an open ended clip. The length gave the user a wee bit of flexibility to move around a little. After struggling with your doings on your immersion suit you needed the extra length!!! It was the responsibility of the user to clean the thing after use. (Needless to say - it wasn't used too often).
On certain flights and depending on the passengers, we used to tell the pax it was the emergency comms device to talk to the pilots. Like the voice pipes of older ships. Amazing how many people fell for it!
Very sensible!!I never trusted air crews when talking about weird on board objects... I have always known they have a peculiar sense of humor and sometimes with a vengeance if the passenger deserved it!
I guess there's a thick dossier at GRU HQs in Moscow with your name on its cover, Doug!Very sensible!!
On board, embarked with the Wasp, I was always using my Blue Peter skills to produce dummy weapon systems. (Just for our Soviet friends).
I offset that by wearing a Soviet fur lined hat sporting the Hammer and Sickle!!! The captain used to tell inspection staff I was getting inside the old Soviet mind!!! It did keep your head warm too!!!I guess there's a thick dossier at GRU HQs in Moscow with your name on its cover, Doug!
That is what the ex orange box was for....A maybe silly question: isn't the P tube a tad high?
Considering its name, shape and position, I came to the conclusion its function is to ease the crew bladders, heavily challenged by the vibrations and cold during long flights.
If I'm right, then or the users had to bend their head and raise on their feet to reach it or the tube is not fixed but detachable to be bent to the needed height...
If I'm wrong and the P tube has a different use, then this is a first class silly question
At the pace I'm going Mike you'll probably overtake me. SWMBO has already announced tomorrow's job list!!!!!You do realise that I am saving all of this build for when I eventually get my SK, this will save me hours of searching and looking, my analyist says i am getting lazy, don't you agree.
Brilliant work by the way.
Had to re-read that!!That is what the ex orange box was for....
The Senior Service provide a jump seat for those of us who a vertically challenged!That is what the ex orange box was for....
On a serious note Mike, any help with anything RN Sea King related just holler. I don't have notes or anything and I have a few images on the computer and loads in a box somewhere.You do realise that I am saving all of this build for when I eventually get my SK, this will save me hours of searching and looking, my analyist says i am getting lazy, don't you agree.
Brilliant work by the way.
Thanks Mark, first time I have used etch in this format. Certainly brings out more detail than the decals do by the looks of it. I'm happy with it.The etch is looking good
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