AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Planes, gliders and flying in Australia View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message RT Guest Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:18 am    Post subject: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel This has to be one of the very best examples of KISS I have ever come across. To be able to lift or lower 600 tonnes 35 m in less than 4 minutes using about the same power as a big domestic 'frig. is *very* bloody impressive - I tips me lid to the feral Scots......... Well done! http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/index.asp?tm=6 (Nobody said flying boats had to have wings.............. :-) Back to top Mick Guest Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel RT wrote: Quote: This has to be one of the very best examples of KISS I have ever come across. To be able to lift or lower 600 tonnes 35 m in less than 4 minutes using about the same power as a big domestic 'frig. is *very* bloody impressive - I tips me lid to the feral Scots......... Much as it pains me as a Pom to admit - the Scots over the past 150 years or so have produced some outstanding engineers and doctors. Overseas trained too! Quote: Well done! http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/index.asp?tm=6 (Nobody said flying boats had to have wings.............. :-) Back to top RT Guest Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel "Mick" <mickriley_uk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: RT wrote: This has to be one of the very best examples of KISS I have ever come across. To be able to lift or lower 600 tonnes 35 m in less than 4 minutes using about the same power as a big domestic 'frig. is *very* bloody impressive - I tips me lid to the feral Scots......... Much as it pains me as a Pom to admit - the Scots over the past 150 years or so have produced some outstanding engineers and doctors. Overseas trained too! I suppose if you're a bloke wearing a skirt made from somebody's chequered tablecloth, eating sheep guts and playing a musical(?) instrument that looks and sounds like an octopus in pyjamas you'd better be good at *something*! :-) Back to top Sylvia Else Guest Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:41 am    Post subject: Re: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel RT wrote: Quote: I suppose if you're a bloke wearing a skirt made from somebody's chequered tablecloth, eating sheep guts and playing a musical(?) instrument that looks and sounds like an octopus in pyjamas you'd better be good at *something*! I suspect that the scots just knew what to do about 'managers', so that the engineers were left to get on with the job in hand, instead of being expected to rewrite the laws of nature. Sylvia. Back to top RT Guest Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:22 am    Post subject: Re: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel "Sylvia Else" <sylvia (AT) not (DOT) at.this.address> wrote Quote: RT wrote: I suppose if you're a bloke wearing a skirt made from somebody's chequered tablecloth, eating sheep guts and playing a musical(?) instrument that looks and sounds like an octopus in pyjamas you'd better be good at *something*! I suspect that the scots just knew what to do about 'managers', so that the engineers were left to get on with the job in hand, instead of being expected to rewrite the laws of nature. Yeah - you're prolly right. OTOH maybe you've been reading too much Dilbert :-) Back to top John B Guest Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Flying boats - the Falkirk Wheel "Mick" <mickriley_uk (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: RT wrote: This has to be one of the very best examples of KISS I have ever come across. To be able to lift or lower 600 tonnes 35 m in less than 4 minutes using about the same power as a big domestic 'frig. is *very* bloody impressive - I tips me lid to the feral Scots......... Much as it pains me as a Pom to admit - the Scots over the past 150 years or so have produced some outstanding engineers and doctors. Overseas trained too! As Dr Johnson said - "Much may be made of a Scot, be he caught young." 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