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was amazed at quite how much banging and thumping there was when I went in one.
Those noises are nothing to do with the imaging process. They're put in so that you lie there wondering WTF is going to happen next!
For purely mechanical:
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Changed the course of [url= http://www.nmm.ac.uk/harrison ]history[/url]
If electricity is allowed, then Concorde and an E-Type do it for me.
Not very PC, but......
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I've been interested in planes for a long time but when I saw this one at the Leuchars airshow a couple of years ago it really did make me stop and say "oh my, that's lovely!" 🙂
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/traumahawk/5511549852/ ]Royal Navy Sea Hawk WV908[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/traumahawk/ ]Traumahawk[/url], on Flickr
Oldgit, are they Purdey or Evans? Either way....yum!
Oldgit - there's nothing unPC about a pair of beautiful, high grade shotguns. They are splendid.
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If you pointed those at me, I'd shit myself.
i guess your perception of how lovely they are may depend on whether or not they're being pointed at you!
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/66687810@N03/6119711727/ ]Audi-UR-quattro-13[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/66687810@N03/ ]davidpday[/url], on Flickr
Its a quote/line from a film that featured them (or at least the catalogue)....
Germanic mechanical prettiness.
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That's a STUNNING pic of that Quattro!
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dogbert - they're not real mate. Sorry. Oh and there's no Santa Claus either....
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Oh my! flamejob 😀
1) Pretty much any bike (with the exception of a few e.g. 'Paperclip bike') is a beautiful combination of form and function.
2) Most high-end hi-fi turntables (although I'm not sure of Yunki's picture)
3) The interlocking on mechanical signal boxes leaves me gobsmacked
4) A nicely finished GP14 dinghy, they may be fairly common a design of boat that can be sailed, rowed and powered that is still in production 50 years after it was designed
Unfortunately I'm on a mobile so you'll have to get your own pictures!
I think after CM defended his case so well that his post should be re-instated.
flamejob I think you are missing a cog on the forth line down. 😉
I think after CM defended his case so well that his post should be re-instated.
You could always repost it yourself 😈
BlobOnAStick
3) The interlocking on mechanical signal boxes leaves me gobsmacked
I shot a 360' pano of the Horsted Keynes signal box on the Bluebell Railway in 07.
In the scheme of things it's not a complicated track layout but I was like W(here)TF do you start?
It's a lovely bit of engineering and [url= http://www.mikeanton.com/360panos/Bluebellrailway/HKsignalbox.html ]here's the pano[/url]
dogbert - they're not real mate. Sorry. Oh and there's no Santa Claus either....
Thank god, i've had nightmares about those mechanical camels 😉
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You put a card thingy in, right, and it gives you money! Magic!!!
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You don't tend to find them in rural places though, sadly. Just cahs. 🙁
howl of a Vulcan
Beech Staggerwing. Check it out. There's one near me and it's beautiful.
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it's more than just a rock, it's a Gomboc
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more "ooh clever" rather than "oh thats lovely" but quite good.it's more than just a rock, it's a Gomboc
magic maybe, lovely nooooo.You put a card thingy in, right, and it gives you money! Magic!!!
Well put, DONK. Thank you.
Another from me....
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A world changing thing. Truly amazing. Seat 62A or 62K upstairs, please.
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3D printer... you can print with plastic, ceramic and even metal.
looks boring but has the potential to change the way we produced things - going from a subtractive process (CNC) to an additive one; reduce production costs; speed up prototyping; and allows anyone with a CAD program to manufacutre items in their own home/office.
but this is also pretty cool, but a massive waste of material!
subtractive manufacturing.
alpin.....WOW!
Lockheed Constellation
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@ flash... which one?
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[url= http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19289/lot/132/# ]27 litre car engine, nice[/url]
Alpin - the helmet.
andrewh - Foxbats are quite cool in a brutal sort of way, but that two-seater looks like the nose broke off just ahead of the cockpit and they stuck the nose from a smaller plane on instead!