On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
Nope, no good, they came in with this and cut them all:
Hmmm... it was clear from the "NO CARRIER" joke that you've been
in IT a long time... but not *that* long. :-)
Nope, I haven't been in IT since the mid-80's, but I did grow up with
modems (all the way back the the venerable Anderson Jacobsen 300 baud
units that you had to put your telephone handset into). A bit too much
latency for Sun Ray, even with Kent's great work on low bandwidth ;-)
BTW what is this? Looks like a downed Heinkel He 111 with some
strange directional antenna attached... or is it some tractor gear?
You are very close - this is a Heinkel He 111 H-8 Cable Cutter which was
used to cut the cables of British barrage balloons which were put up
over
London and other parts of the UK during the war:
http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_he_111_cable_cutter1.html
I can't image the pilot's excitement at being told that he had to fly
his
plane into the path of a heavy steel cable and hope that the cutter was
able to cut the cable before the cable got entangled in the propellers
or
the wings.
Apparently these weren't very successful due to the ungainly and heavy
cable
cutting mechanism and their use was quickly abandoned. "A" for effort
though.
mike
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