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Gyrene

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    CM Movies back up again

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    I used SnapzPro 2 to capture the clips (The most laborious part) then I put the clips together with iMovie 3 (The fun part), then I exported the clips with QuickTime Pro and compressed them & converted to Windows Media with Cleaner 5 (This takes a while)

    I made this movie for BFC's interview with CNN and it came out of over 700MB of captured footage, the original is a lovely 800 x 600 that I'd never be able to host, unfortunately. Pity it was never used.

    I don't know of a similar way to do the same on a Windows PC, and I'd love to put my P4 rig with it's nicer video card to work at it.

    Glad you liked it, and sorry if I cut some of you off from downloading, but I really can't get out to the internet with all the uploads going.

    I've had some offers of better places to put them up, so you won't have to wait 3 hours to see 3 minutes of me messing around. :D

    Gyrene

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    Diesel vs. Gas

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Mike:

    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Incoming9000:

    The information I have about the picture is that it was taken from a 737 engine that sucked it a 3 Kg bird during takeoff. The Bird itself only made minor damage, but because of the full throttle needed for takeoff, making the engine work at maximum power, any damage, as slight it might be would cause slpinters from the blades, or anything else, to wreck havok inside the high pressure engine. It's the domino efect. The slightest damage can initiate a chain reacton that causes tremendous efects.

    True - but hte photo was of teh front blades - the 1st stage compressor, and GT engines that suffer catastrophic failures do not generlaly propogate damage forwards, so I'd expect all that damage to have come from eth impact.

    Clearly something caused it, but I'm sceptical about a single bird being the cause. </font>

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    Soon to be released from B&T: HITLER'S SON

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by MrSpkr:

    Sounds exciting. Does it have any Eisbohrungsfischentruppen? My grandfather was an Eisbohrungsfischentruppen and I want to replay some of his battles. I never learned about the Eisbohrungsfischentruppen in school.

    Please send it to me so I can tell if my grandfather fought there. If he didn't, I will be pissed off, and forced to growl and show my teeth.

    Steve

    Mr. Spkr, beautiful use of recent controversial topic reference and very skillful use of controversial/well loved topic blending, your dedication to your craft shows. Continue with this high level of performance and you'll make the State finals!

    I give you a 9.1

    Gyrene

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    Diesel vs. Gas

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Originally posted by Stalin's Organ:

    Turboprop engines often have a vertical bend to teh intake that serves as a filter - eg the PW100 series engines on the DHC-8 have this, and a small door to allow heavy debris carried by hte airflow to continue in a straight line and avoid hte engine - although this is primarily for ice protection.

    Quite frankly I do not believe the picture above is from a single bird strike - I used to work in a JT8D (727 and old style 737 engines) overhaul shop and saw lots of impact damage including multiple bird strikes and none of them came close to being that much damage - they also didn't stop the engine actually working.

    I have to agree with Stalin's Organ - I did overhaul work on CF-6's & TF-39's with General Electric (747's, 757's, , CF5's, Air Force One...) and I've seen quite a bit of FOD damage and I can tell you that no 3kg bird would FOD a turbofan like that unless it was the Bird of Steel™

    I've seen the chicken gun & frozen turkey tests and that's more than 3kg and a lot harder.

    Mike: I think you are mistaken in thinking that sand is not a threat to blade life in turbines - During the Gulf War we lost a few helicopters to compressor stalls caused by sand erosion, including one in my squadron that took a 50 foot plunge during a hover check.

    Our GE rep later sent us some compressor blades to show us just how much damage the fine Saudi sand did in such a short time, some of them looked like scimitars! Turns out that the T64's in CH53's were the most erosion prone of all helicopter engines in the theater, probably because they're also the only pure axial flow turboshafts used in allied helicopters.

    Sand also played havoc with fuel control linkage.

    Gyrene

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    Member #12345 is coming...

    in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin

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    Possibly the coolest member number will be upon us soon (Never mind that there was no fanfare for #'s 123 & 1234...) and just like we made #8000 and #10000 feel welcome I think we should do something special for the arrival of #12345.

    JasonC doesn't post much anymore, so a reading of his posts (A perennial favorite) is out, and a reading of all of Mike Dorosh's posts would take until #23456 gets here...

    We could always welcome #12345 to a relaxing evening in a political flamewar in the General Forum or a nice dip in the pool

    Gyrene

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