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I did ~135MPH all the way from Frankfurt to the Bühlertal turnoff, in some kind of Opel. The VW's I rented would only do 100MPH.
[snip]Where did you get a ticket? Certainly not on an autobahn?
What impressed me about German Polizei was seeing them sweeping up the glass off the autobahn after an accident.
...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Hello Jim,
Could have been an Opel Omega real-wheel drive. No idea what they call them today. There were also some high powered Vectras but I wouldn't want to do 135mph in these.
No, in Aachen. Just past the Dutch border, roaring down what I believe was the extension of "Bundesstrasse 1", the one that used to go all the way to Koenigsberg at the other end of Europe.
Almost got another one in WA state but I was able to convince the trooper that the bicycle wasn't mine, that I was used to bikes with an odometer and that this one didn't have that. What puzzled me was why he stopped me while nobody else was on that bike path in miles.
Broom and shovel is part of the standard equipment.
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
That's what it was... a Vectra. I didn't have any problem with it, but I've got quite a bit of "wheeeeee" built into my personality ;-)
Last Spring I left the Q45 off for service at the Infiniti dealership and they loaned me a G35... a small sedan with a 3.5L V-6 engine. A RED G35 ;-)
In a fit of "wheeeeee" I turned off of 24th St onto Pecos Road, a
4-lane, median-divided, limited access road near my house, and floored it... just seconds later as I was passing 88MPH I spotted the motorcycle cop on the other side ;-)Unlike Mel Gibson, I was polite, and the cop wrote me up for 79MPH, so he didn't have to arrest me for felony speed.
Since I so rarely get a ticket I was able to "traffic school" it, avoid a fine and avoid it on my driving record, though the "school" cost me $120 :-(
[snip]...Jim Thompson
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| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
That's why the insurance rates are so low in Germany.
No survivors:)
Regards,
Mike Monett
Antiviral, Antibacterial Silver Solution:
Hello Jim,
Vectras are similar to the Audi A4. A client needed me to help them out with a vendor issue over there and they gave me one of their corporate A4 to get there fast. This one had a rocket of an engine but above
120mph it became rather iffy in road handling. It fish-tailed a bit when switching lanes. So next time I used the A6 which behaves like a solid chunk of steel at that speed. The main problem with the A4 was that they were too low inside. It had a sun roof and I had to drive 700 miles with my head slightly tilted.Oops...
-- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
And DUI laws with SEVERE punishment and they ARE enforced.
...Jim Thompson
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Don't your police do that ?
Graham
You bet they are. I served 8 years in France with NATO in the 60's. Everything was pretty much wide open then and you could get away with anything. But when I returned in the 80's for consulting trips, everything was very different. Nobody would dare risk driving with even a small glass of wine on their breath.
Here's my old HQ building in Metz - the Chateau de Mercy:
And here's a small story about a big hole in the ground:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Access to 61 AC&W Squadron was sort of a back road behind the Chateau de Mercy. When we drove to the 61 AC&W site we would pass a road to the left that took you to both the microwave site and a bit further to the Receiver site which was located at Fort Jury.
Not too far from the Transmitter site was a mammoth hole in the ground. This was a crater like you never saw in your life. Local lore said that there had been an underground munitions depot at that location. An allied plane on the way back to England was flying low and watched a truck disappear into the hillside. The pilot quickly circled back and dropped a bomb at the location where the truck had disappeared. Evidently, the doors to the munitions depot was still open, the bomb slid in and the results were catastrophic. We also found the remnants of a couple of vehicles in this area.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I used to go past that crater ever day on my way to the bunkers where the microwave equipment was installed.
There was another section to the bunker they didn't mention. It had reinforced concrete walls at least 10 feet thick that were pushed aside by the force of the blast. You would stand there and look at it and you could not believe how much force it must have taken.
Some of the blocks of concrete ended up on the other side of Metz.
Imagine the force that would send pieces weighing tons that far!
Regards,
Mike Monett
Antiviral, Antibacterial Silver Solution:
I've seen city cops clean up after a car fire. They seem to have brooms and dustpans and stuff in their trunks. (along with the SWAT gear and stuff, of course. ;-) )
Cheers! Rich
I saw a horrible traffic jam on the TeeVee morning news - somebody had wiped out a semi, and all four or five lanes of the freeway were blocked, in the middle of the morning commute. The traffic was backed up for miles, all of them with the engines idling, and headlights on. An hour or two later, on the next Nooz show, they were still trying to clear the blockage, but more than half, maybe 75%, of the cars had their lights off, and hopefully, had turned off their motor.
Cheers! Rich
Same effect. The only improvement possible, at very low (ie zero) power consumption, is to turn the control circuit off entirely.
System transient response becomes a practical limitation under most lightly loaded situations, when the filter inductor is allowed to dry out.
RL
No, the wrecker drivers do it.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I\'ve got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
Too bad the hole got clipped in the pic, very nice pic BTW.
-- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
Hi Joseph,
The chateau was really beautiful when it was Headquarters for 1 Air Div. It was taken over by the French military after we left, but it seems to be abandoned now. Shame to let it go like that.
The bomb crater was a mile or so to the right of the above photo. Here are three photos of what it looked like:
The only crater I know of that was bigger was at BASF, in Ludwigshaven. I was visiting on a consulting trip, and one of the engineers talked about it during lunch. Apparently a trainload of ammonium nitrate had solidified, and they sent workers into the tank cars with jackhammers to break it up.
The resulting hole was very long and very deep:)
Regards,
Mike Monett
Antiviral, Antibacterial Silver Solution:
Hmm... I wonder what the engineer was talking about. I just found the wiki story, and it's completely different. It was a silo, not a train. And they used dynamite to break it up, not jackhammers. Here's the story with a photo:
Mike Monett
Antiviral, Antibacterial Silver Solution:
In message , dated Thu, 10 Aug
2006, Mike Monett writes
It didn't seem likely that jackhammers alone would set off ammonium nitrate. It's quite difficult to detonate.
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