Topic: 3D printer models and aeroplane chat (Read 34011 times)

Caspian Sea Monster · « **Reply #50 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 11:20 »

I must be blind then. Where's the link for it?

Loki · « **Reply #51 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 14:36 »

Should be right next to your avatar in the header of the forum.

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Caspian Sea Monster · « **Reply #52 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 14:39 »

Which was apparently hidden in a collapsible header. Awesome. Now that I've thoroughly humiliated myself can we go back to talking about airplanes?

Loki · « **Reply #53 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 14:45 »

Sure. Aeroplanes consist of many parts.

Some small, some not so small. Some are visible, some are not. One should consider an aeroplane a whole made from parts.

Like a chain.

Which consists of visible and invisible links.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #54 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 14:47 »

So I may have just quoted your post looking for invisible links.

Caspian Sea Monster · « **Reply #55 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 15:02 »

::slow clap::

Carl-E · « **Reply #56 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 16:45 »

Quote from: Patrick on 03 Jun 2013, 18:22

it's a flat 6!

Quote from: Redball on 03 Jun 2013, 17:49

Carl, the photo of the 14-19-2 230 Cruisemaster's engine looks kind of flat.

Why, so it is!

I remember hearing a Cessna take off and realizing it was the same sound as the flat four in my old bug. The cruisemaster's cowling looked like it had a horizontally opposed engine, I was guessing. It's such a good engine design!

Caspian Sea Monster · « **Reply #57 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 17:24 »

Modern light civil aviation is dominated by air-cooled flat boxer fours and sixes - so yeah, basically like a giant Beetle or 911 engine with dual spark. The helicopter I learned in is (was

) powered by a Lycoming O-360 flat four. Radials are... not necessarily higher maintenance, but more difficult to work on due to the cylinder arrangement, and water-cooled engines were a fad that didn't really last much past WWII due to the weight and the serious oh-shit factor of springing a coolant leak.

Water-cooled I6s and V12s are just sexier though.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #58 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 18:10 »

Although, as I understand, watercooled inline-4s are becoming more popular in Europe. (Specifically, two different aero conversions of the Mercedes-Benz OM 640 2.0 automotive diesel.)

Patrick · « **Reply #59 on:** 04 Jun 2013, 23:45 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 04 Jun 2013, 16:45

I remember hearing a Cessna take off and realizing it was the same sound as the flat four in my old bug. The cruisemaster's cowling looked like it had a horizontally opposed engine, I was guessing. It's such a good engine design!

so good in fact that the Porsche 959, as I learned watching an older episode of Top Gear last night, used a twin-turbo flat 6. it was also the fastest production road car ever made at the time.

jwhouk · « **Reply #60 on:** 05 Jun 2013, 00:21 »

Back on the thought of 3-D Printers: Do any of you foresee a day when you could make your own custom glass frames? You could order the lenses, and replace or create new frames as needed - theoretically.

Carl-E · « **Reply #61 on:** 05 Jun 2013, 01:06 »

Hmmm... almost would be more interesting to get the resin and refinement to print lenses of any refraction.

Look ma, no labs!

(this is from a man whose lenses take over a week to fabricate, not including shipping to and from the lab...)

Patrick · « **Reply #62 on:** 05 Jun 2013, 02:39 »

would certainly make my life easier. just have a computer figure out what the fuck's wrong with my eyes, then buy the CAD file for some d0pe Ray Bans and bam, I got me some d0pe-ass Ray Ban prescription spexxx

Method of Madness · « **Reply #63 on:** 05 Jun 2013, 05:41 »

And if they break, just reprint 'em!

pwhodges · « **Reply #64 on:** 27 Jan 2014, 08:33 »

And now, full-colour 3D printing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25878078

ZoeB · « **Reply #65 on:** 31 Jan 2014, 05:46 »

Some will recognise the Bf109G and Fw190A-5... but the others might stump you. Afficionados will recognise the factory straight away, only one firm ever made aircraft that looked remotely like thst. The obscure project designations though, that's tricky,

Mavens will recognise the complex 3-colour "ambush" pattern on one of those - a pattern usually only found on tanks,

Yes, that configuration really does work.

Patrick · « **Reply #66 on:** 03 Feb 2014, 02:57 »

links are broken, I suspect that forum doesn't allow image hotlinking. I must know, so I can stroke my e-peen.

Carl-E · « **Reply #67 on:** 04 Feb 2014, 00:45 »

Works for me... it's a youtube video anyway.

This one.

Patrick · « **Reply #68 on:** 04 Feb 2014, 02:52 »

the youtube one works, there's 4 broken image links though!

Carl-E · « **Reply #69 on:** 04 Feb 2014, 10:52 »

Oooh, I hadn't noticed those. They're all attachment ID's to a forum i (we?) aren't registered on.

Must be one of those fancy forums that displays attachments in the post, and ZoeB just thought she was hotlinking the images...

C'est la ~~vie~~ guerre!

ZoeB · « **Reply #70 on:** 05 Feb 2014, 21:07 »

Try now.

Patrick · « **Reply #71 on:** 01 Apr 2014, 01:23 »

I am a little disappointed the YouTube video spoils it, because B&V are one of my favorite manufacturers of WWII era Germany, and I'd have loved to have gotten bragging rights to answer first.

Akima · « **Reply #72 on:** 01 Apr 2014, 02:35 »

After seeing that Blohm & Voss, I will never be rude about the B-wing again.

ZoeB · « **Reply #73 on:** 01 Apr 2014, 03:25 »

Turks of 1918:

Albatros D.II, Albatros C.III, Fokker D.I, Halberstadt D.V of blocks 4 (Green/Brown) and 5 (Green/Lilac).

All 3D printed in nylon.

You have to do a lot of study on the effects of Orthochrome film on greyscales (as well as chasing up records of paints used) in order to determine the colour from the few b&w pictures that survive.

pwhodges · « **Reply #74 on:** 01 Apr 2014, 03:31 »

Quote from: ZoeB on 01 Apr 2014, 03:25

You have to do a lot of study on the effects of Orthochrome film on greyscales (as well as chasing up records of paints used) in order to determine the colour from the few b&w pictures that survive.

Heh! I remember actually buying ortho film to experiment with the effects. Black lips...

Caspian Sea Monster · « **Reply #75 on:** 02 Apr 2014, 15:26 »

Quote from: Akima on 01 Apr 2014, 02:35

After seeing that Blohm & Voss, I will never be rude about the B-wing again.

I just died laughing at this. That is all.

Akima · « **Reply #76 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 20:18 »

I have a bit of a soft spot for autogiros, and following some links from an article I was reading about Dieselpunk, I came across this:

And this:

But why is the mail-guy carrying a revolver?

pwhodges · « **Reply #77 on:** 12 Jun 2016, 23:12 »

In case of highwaymen.

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