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All the best for 2013!
PS: The latest contributor to R-R Merlin shows a high degree of maturity - I guess he thinks he's a better editor than the normal run of illiterate wikignomes who develop F Articles. ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 18:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Evening Nimbus: I see you have contributed to Walter NZ 60 and wondered if you had heard it called the Walter NZ IV? A Dutch book talks about the latter (well, the Walter IV) and says it produced 60 hp; and I have some strong evidence that the Walter NZ VII, referred to by a 1932 Flight article, is the same engine as the Walter NZ 120. Cheers, TSRL ( talk) 18:55, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Template:Rolls-Royce Trent series has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. JetBlast ( talk) 22:46, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Was it really necessary to delete this information as "unsourced" quite so quickly when the longstanding first sentence ("Established in 1955...") is also unsourced but remains undeleted?! The article is currently very short, barely more than a stub, and it deserves enlarging. The V-Prop information could be of huge importance both to the company and to GA. I learned this news from a completely reliable source, namely the seller of the rights. Of course, I wish to avoid WP:OR, but it may be some time before this information can be officially sourced. Should readers be denied this news? Arrivisto ( talk) 19:45, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Morning Nimbus: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the Aircraft Engine Historical Society http://www.enginehistory.org/join_aehs.shtml and assist agent Minorhistorian in drooling over information and files that are available only to members. Minorhistorian has already extracted and secreted several files to a protected location and is planning on using them to expand and improve various Wikipedia articles should time allow. He is currently investigating whether AEHS members hold any information concerning the weight of the Rolls-Royce Vulture but is not expecting such information to be divulged at any time soon. Good luck. ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 22:20, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 20:37, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
I've added a comment and a question to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines. -- Egil ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus227:
The PIPE Here...the calculation of the PROPER total swept displacement of the Nakajima Homare, using the same formula that you can find at Engine_displacement, the complete swept volume of the Homare comes out to be 35.84 litres, or 2,187 in3.
This figure IS computed from using the sourced bore and stroke of the engine itself, and using the formula for finding the volume of a round cylinder times the number of cylinders in the complete engine.
As the bore and stroke ARE sourced from a documented, existing source, the calculated volume SHOULD be fully acceptable as the factual value for the engine's displacement, don't you think?
Sincerely,
The PIPE ( talk) 11:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus,
How could my copy edit be improved?
-Duxwing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duxwing ( talk • contribs) 04:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
--
Thanks for replying and line-by-line deriving principles from examples: you understand me! :D Following your format:
-You're right. I could without removing information have deleted "currently" and "small aircraft". -Ok. No more "lest". I think that I should review the definition of "plain English". -Right again. Also, "comprise" means "consist of". -I never saw the word "through". I should read my rewritten texts before submitting them. -"Soon" is a preposition, which follows the verb phrase "will stall". -Right. I should have written "X like Y" instead of "Such X as Y". -Oooooh. So that's what I do. Where can I get help with stylistic rewrites?
If to age is to callous over one's sympathy, then I shall remain a I child forever. ( talk) 19:53, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edit, with no explanation? Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nimbus I see you have remove the JPT spec. The idea was not that it should always be filled out but to give the option, as the temperature parameter varies between engines: some use temperature of the gas going into the turbine and others use the temperature after the turbine. If you remove JPT then, by extension, you should also remove TIT. Which way do we want to go No temperature info (probably the most important parameter in the specs) or the choice to give the relevant parameter?-- Petebutt ( talk) 07:42, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm fairly pig-ignorant with respect to aero-engines, so I thought I'd run this by you before actually doing anything. I'm pretty certain that this article is very misleading, and that the engine is in fact a French design originating in 1908 & flown in 1909]. The 1909 engine is rated at 60hp but has the same principal dimensions & layout: at that date its both historically very significant & it's also technically interesting, since the propeller drive is off the camshaft at half engine speed & it used forced-draught cooling. Is this in your opinion the same engine? I'm certain that furtling about in l'Aerophile will uncover a lot more about the engine. TheLongTone ( talk) 11:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Morning Nimbus and thanks for the comment on my Flight images query. I'm sure I should know this, but how do you put an image into an article if it is not on WikiCommons? I've loaded 100-ish Flight images into Commons, partly because I know no other way. Until this one I've had no queries (except one when I forgot to include the editor's statement). Someone (Milbourne ?) suggested cc-by-3.0 should be OK, so that's what I've used, without previous objection. After posting the query I wondered if there was a significant difference in copyright status between a photo and a drawing but am not sure. There is a photo in that article as well as the sketch and its status has not yet been queried. I just hope they don't delete the rest! Cheers. TSRL ( talk) 08:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Would you mind looking over [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/AI Mk. IV radar/archive2 this] and letting me know if your stuff has been addressed? It appears somewhat moot given subsequent posts, but no harm in asking... Maury Markowitz ( talk) 16:37, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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Afternoon Nimbus. Do you know anything about the Walter Junior, which wls to Walter Minor? That article contains no mention of it at all! The Junior appears in a few (3?) WP articles but the only refs to it in books I've found so far are re the Hispano E.34, in Lege's book on Hispano and Howson's on the Spanish Civil War. They might both have got this from a William Green article in Flight, 1948. There is at least one other mention in Flight from the '30s, in a Czech aircraft. Nothing in Gunston or the '38 Janes.I wondered about a possible Junior/Minor mistranslation, though 105 hp is a bit high for the Minor 4-I, which otherwise fits.Cheers, TSRL ( talk) 16:44, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Nimbus227, I'm surprised that you do not want to have the Super Mirage/ACF mentionned as a related development of the Mirage G serie. Without even ressorting to caracteristics, the first name ("Mirage G8A") given by the French to the Super Mirage/ACF project indicates clearly the link between the two [The initial contract, #73/90422, granted to AMD/BA on December 5, 1973 was for a generic "ACF"; an amendment (n°1) to the said contract, dated July 9, 1974 specified that the aircraft designation was "Mirage G8A 01"; this was changed by a further amendment (n°4) on August 1, 1975, to "Super Mirage"]. Anyway, you probably know better. Hope you don't mind if I keep working on the French version of the Mirage G article before creating an article dedicated to the Super Mirage/ACF itself. Best — Preceding unsigned comment added by Higashisakura ( talk • contribs) 03:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
I see you deleted the [[Category:Rocket engines]] from the Walter HWK 109-500 article. I understand that it is, in fact, a rocket engine. In particular, an aviation engine. But I don't see why it shouldn't be on the more encompassing category. Baldusi ( talk) 21:38, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to have your opinion on my proposed branching of the Template:Rocket engines. Please see the Template TalkPage Baldusi ( talk) 17:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, just a FYI, I know you've been updating the aviation templates, if you use the following code for the collapsed state for templates, then they will still display uncollapsed on their own page (one less step to view template), but will still be collapsed on the article pages.
See this section for further info: Template:Navbox/doc#Setup parameters (under "state"). Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:37, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi
I've just attempted to update this page with the details of the latest recipient of this trophy. You have asked that I cite a reputable source. The problem I (and the Royal Aero Club records Racing and Rally Association) have is that there are no sources other than our own records of each season. This also relates to the King's Cup, the Schneider and a couple of other pages. Can you offer me any guidance on how I can overcome this issue. Incidentally, I have tried to create a page for our organisation but this was also pulled for similar reasons in that there is no major verifiable sources that can be cited.
Petechilcott ( talk) 23:15, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
HI Nimbus227, First, I am new to this editing process.
I believe you removed my edit to ZA150's current status on the VC10 page. I am one of the engineers who maintain ZA150 in a taxiable condition WSe carried out our first public taxi on 30th August 2015 at the Dunsfold Wings & Wheels show having previously taxied on 7th August and the 18th August
Rdgs VC1103 VC101103 ( talk) 10:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nimbus, in reference to the R-R Merlin being called a British icon in the lede - I have found it impossible to find any reference to the Merlin in the cited website. It might be better to drop the "British icon" unless a better source can be found. Cheers ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 22:47, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nimbus. This image shows a device protruding into the airstream above the rear canopy of a two-seat MiG-29UB. The same device is also visible in the article Swifts (aerobatic team). Any idea of its intended function? Dolphin ( t) 08:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 |
All the best for 2013!
PS: The latest contributor to R-R Merlin shows a high degree of maturity - I guess he thinks he's a better editor than the normal run of illiterate wikignomes who develop F Articles. ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 18:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Evening Nimbus: I see you have contributed to Walter NZ 60 and wondered if you had heard it called the Walter NZ IV? A Dutch book talks about the latter (well, the Walter IV) and says it produced 60 hp; and I have some strong evidence that the Walter NZ VII, referred to by a 1932 Flight article, is the same engine as the Walter NZ 120. Cheers, TSRL ( talk) 18:55, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Template:Rolls-Royce Trent series has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. JetBlast ( talk) 22:46, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Was it really necessary to delete this information as "unsourced" quite so quickly when the longstanding first sentence ("Established in 1955...") is also unsourced but remains undeleted?! The article is currently very short, barely more than a stub, and it deserves enlarging. The V-Prop information could be of huge importance both to the company and to GA. I learned this news from a completely reliable source, namely the seller of the rights. Of course, I wish to avoid WP:OR, but it may be some time before this information can be officially sourced. Should readers be denied this news? Arrivisto ( talk) 19:45, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Morning Nimbus: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the Aircraft Engine Historical Society http://www.enginehistory.org/join_aehs.shtml and assist agent Minorhistorian in drooling over information and files that are available only to members. Minorhistorian has already extracted and secreted several files to a protected location and is planning on using them to expand and improve various Wikipedia articles should time allow. He is currently investigating whether AEHS members hold any information concerning the weight of the Rolls-Royce Vulture but is not expecting such information to be divulged at any time soon. Good luck. ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 22:20, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 20:37, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
I've added a comment and a question to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft/Engines. -- Egil ( talk) 21:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus227:
The PIPE Here...the calculation of the PROPER total swept displacement of the Nakajima Homare, using the same formula that you can find at Engine_displacement, the complete swept volume of the Homare comes out to be 35.84 litres, or 2,187 in3.
This figure IS computed from using the sourced bore and stroke of the engine itself, and using the formula for finding the volume of a round cylinder times the number of cylinders in the complete engine.
As the bore and stroke ARE sourced from a documented, existing source, the calculated volume SHOULD be fully acceptable as the factual value for the engine's displacement, don't you think?
Sincerely,
The PIPE ( talk) 11:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus,
How could my copy edit be improved?
-Duxwing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duxwing ( talk • contribs) 04:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
--
Thanks for replying and line-by-line deriving principles from examples: you understand me! :D Following your format:
-You're right. I could without removing information have deleted "currently" and "small aircraft". -Ok. No more "lest". I think that I should review the definition of "plain English". -Right again. Also, "comprise" means "consist of". -I never saw the word "through". I should read my rewritten texts before submitting them. -"Soon" is a preposition, which follows the verb phrase "will stall". -Right. I should have written "X like Y" instead of "Such X as Y". -Oooooh. So that's what I do. Where can I get help with stylistic rewrites?
If to age is to callous over one's sympathy, then I shall remain a I child forever. ( talk) 19:53, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edit, with no explanation? Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:35, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nimbus I see you have remove the JPT spec. The idea was not that it should always be filled out but to give the option, as the temperature parameter varies between engines: some use temperature of the gas going into the turbine and others use the temperature after the turbine. If you remove JPT then, by extension, you should also remove TIT. Which way do we want to go No temperature info (probably the most important parameter in the specs) or the choice to give the relevant parameter?-- Petebutt ( talk) 07:42, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm fairly pig-ignorant with respect to aero-engines, so I thought I'd run this by you before actually doing anything. I'm pretty certain that this article is very misleading, and that the engine is in fact a French design originating in 1908 & flown in 1909]. The 1909 engine is rated at 60hp but has the same principal dimensions & layout: at that date its both historically very significant & it's also technically interesting, since the propeller drive is off the camshaft at half engine speed & it used forced-draught cooling. Is this in your opinion the same engine? I'm certain that furtling about in l'Aerophile will uncover a lot more about the engine. TheLongTone ( talk) 11:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Morning Nimbus and thanks for the comment on my Flight images query. I'm sure I should know this, but how do you put an image into an article if it is not on WikiCommons? I've loaded 100-ish Flight images into Commons, partly because I know no other way. Until this one I've had no queries (except one when I forgot to include the editor's statement). Someone (Milbourne ?) suggested cc-by-3.0 should be OK, so that's what I've used, without previous objection. After posting the query I wondered if there was a significant difference in copyright status between a photo and a drawing but am not sure. There is a photo in that article as well as the sketch and its status has not yet been queried. I just hope they don't delete the rest! Cheers. TSRL ( talk) 08:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Would you mind looking over [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/AI Mk. IV radar/archive2 this] and letting me know if your stuff has been addressed? It appears somewhat moot given subsequent posts, but no harm in asking... Maury Markowitz ( talk) 16:37, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus227,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
FWiW Bzuk (
talk)
21:14, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").
Afternoon Nimbus. Do you know anything about the Walter Junior, which wls to Walter Minor? That article contains no mention of it at all! The Junior appears in a few (3?) WP articles but the only refs to it in books I've found so far are re the Hispano E.34, in Lege's book on Hispano and Howson's on the Spanish Civil War. They might both have got this from a William Green article in Flight, 1948. There is at least one other mention in Flight from the '30s, in a Czech aircraft. Nothing in Gunston or the '38 Janes.I wondered about a possible Junior/Minor mistranslation, though 105 hp is a bit high for the Minor 4-I, which otherwise fits.Cheers, TSRL ( talk) 16:44, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I have granted rollback rights to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam ( talk) 01:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Nimbus227, I'm surprised that you do not want to have the Super Mirage/ACF mentionned as a related development of the Mirage G serie. Without even ressorting to caracteristics, the first name ("Mirage G8A") given by the French to the Super Mirage/ACF project indicates clearly the link between the two [The initial contract, #73/90422, granted to AMD/BA on December 5, 1973 was for a generic "ACF"; an amendment (n°1) to the said contract, dated July 9, 1974 specified that the aircraft designation was "Mirage G8A 01"; this was changed by a further amendment (n°4) on August 1, 1975, to "Super Mirage"]. Anyway, you probably know better. Hope you don't mind if I keep working on the French version of the Mirage G article before creating an article dedicated to the Super Mirage/ACF itself. Best — Preceding unsigned comment added by Higashisakura ( talk • contribs) 03:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
I see you deleted the [[Category:Rocket engines]] from the Walter HWK 109-500 article. I understand that it is, in fact, a rocket engine. In particular, an aviation engine. But I don't see why it shouldn't be on the more encompassing category. Baldusi ( talk) 21:38, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to have your opinion on my proposed branching of the Template:Rocket engines. Please see the Template TalkPage Baldusi ( talk) 17:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, just a FYI, I know you've been updating the aviation templates, if you use the following code for the collapsed state for templates, then they will still display uncollapsed on their own page (one less step to view template), but will still be collapsed on the article pages.
See this section for further info: Template:Navbox/doc#Setup parameters (under "state"). Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:37, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi
I've just attempted to update this page with the details of the latest recipient of this trophy. You have asked that I cite a reputable source. The problem I (and the Royal Aero Club records Racing and Rally Association) have is that there are no sources other than our own records of each season. This also relates to the King's Cup, the Schneider and a couple of other pages. Can you offer me any guidance on how I can overcome this issue. Incidentally, I have tried to create a page for our organisation but this was also pulled for similar reasons in that there is no major verifiable sources that can be cited.
Petechilcott ( talk) 23:15, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
HI Nimbus227, First, I am new to this editing process.
I believe you removed my edit to ZA150's current status on the VC10 page. I am one of the engineers who maintain ZA150 in a taxiable condition WSe carried out our first public taxi on 30th August 2015 at the Dunsfold Wings & Wheels show having previously taxied on 7th August and the 18th August
Rdgs VC1103 VC101103 ( talk) 10:28, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nimbus, in reference to the R-R Merlin being called a British icon in the lede - I have found it impossible to find any reference to the Merlin in the cited website. It might be better to drop the "British icon" unless a better source can be found. Cheers ◆Min✪rhist✪rian◆ MTalk 22:47, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 15:49, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nimbus. This image shows a device protruding into the airstream above the rear canopy of a two-seat MiG-29UB. The same device is also visible in the article Swifts (aerobatic team). Any idea of its intended function? Dolphin ( t) 08:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)