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Rusty, is the hangar in that picture far away or too small? If it is the latter they will pop the airship when they try to put it away.

Very far away!

But they popped it anyway: 🙁

Rusty, is the hangar in that picture far away or too small?

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3T MRI scanner

CT scanner

Medical imaging. Amazing stuff.

My White Industries freewheel is lovely. Was almost reluctant to put it on my bike as it was such a beautiful thing!

Medical imaging. Amazing stuff.

not only does it feel like you’re being loaded into a washing machine it sounds like a badly loaded one too.

I was amazed at quite how much banging and thumping there was when I went in one.

Wehey..
Ring,ding, ding…

B-2 Stealth Bomber.

It is a shame that so many interesting, beautiful objects are purely there for destruction.

Jet engines (of all descriptions)

All those parts spinning ridiculously fast at extremely tight tolerances, working at high temps. 1000’s of them all over the world and on the whole, they just work (which is probably a good thing!)

And I know there’s been a pic of it already, but it probably deserves another one. Still sad to think they aren’t flying anymore:

Test drove a VW b us on Sunday and the engine note made me get the ‘oh thats lovely’ feeling!

Also, had the same feeling about my White industries freewheel when I fitted it to my old Paddy Wagon

🙂

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:

Changed the course of history

If electricity is allowed, then Concorde and an E-Type do it for me.

Not very PC, but……

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!” 🙂

Royal Navy Sea Hawk WV908 by Traumahawk, 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.

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!

😯

Audi-UR-quattro-13 by davidpday, on Flickr

Its a quote/line from a film that featured them (or at least the catalogue)….

Germanic mechanical prettiness.

That’s a STUNNING pic of that Quattro!

dogbert – they’re not real mate. Sorry. Oh and there’s no Santa Claus either….

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 here’s the pano

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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