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Offline Dantoo

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"Relief Tubes"
« on: June 24, 2010, 09:14:37 PM »
Seems like an interesting idea for long "stretches" at the console (pun there)

From "Buffaloes Over Singapore"

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"Mowbray Garden just couldn't keep still. I remember he wanted to urinate fairly often when he was flying. They had relief tubes in the Buffaloes and the groundcrew got a bit browned off with having to flush his relief tube out, so they turned the venturi round - a venturi, in short, accentuates or concentrates a volume of air through vacuum - so anything that was introduced near its point of entry was sucked in with violence.  I think Mowbray was hospitalized for a day or two."
I get really really tired of selective realism disguised as a desire to make bombers easier to kill.

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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 09:31:22 PM »
Good book. :aok

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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 10:30:13 PM »
Then there is the story of the 4th FG 51 pilot who taped his relief tube on thinking it would save time.  It got cold, then warm, then numb, then swollen.

Getting out of the cockpit was a bit of a problem and he was out of action for a time as well :)
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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 11:52:16 PM »
Seems like an interesting idea for long "stretches" at the console (pun there)

From "Buffaloes Over Singapore"

""Mowbray Garden just couldn't keep still. I remember he wanted to urinate fairly often when he was flying. They had relief tubes in the Buffaloes and the groundcrew got a bit browned off with having to flush his relief tube out, so they turned the venturi round - a venturi, in short, accentuates or concentrates a volume of air through vacuum - so anything that was introduced near its point of entry was sucked in with violence.  I think Mowbray was hospitalized for a day or two."



LOL!!  Almost sounds like one of those "enlargement" scams I've heard other people get e-mails about.


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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2010, 12:15:51 AM »
shopvac should do as a simulation! :devil

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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2010, 09:52:41 AM »
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It got cold, then warm, then numb, then swollen.

Doc do ya think you could make the pain go away but leave the swelling?  :lol
I get really really tired of selective realism disguised as a desire to make bombers easier to kill.

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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2010, 09:56:57 AM »
Doc do ya think you could make the pain go away but leave the swelling?  :lol

Nope, sorry, now put this ice on your ting ting and hope to God your berries don't shrivel up permanently.   :eek:
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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2010, 10:58:16 AM »

LOL!!  Almost sounds like one of those "enlargement" scams I've heard other people get e-mails about.


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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2010, 11:39:04 AM »
Seems like an interesting idea for long "stretches" at the console (pun there)

From "Buffaloes Over Singapore"


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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2010, 02:55:50 PM »
Ever since the 'Longbow' scenario from days of old, I've always had an empty gatoraid bottle or something with a large neck near the computer for events.

I've never used it (but still had a bottle ready) until this month during the 2nd frame of the Normandy FSO. Let me just say it came in real handy.  :D

(thankfully, the computer is on a different floor than the wife and daughter and they were also fast asleep)
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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2010, 04:16:53 PM »
TMI Del TMI..... :rofl

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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2010, 06:35:34 PM »
It was a well known fact that buffalos needed larger relief tubes.
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Re: "Relief Tubes"
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2010, 08:32:56 PM »
Del. I belive the only times a man should ever relieve himself in a bottle is....
1. When fishing on a lake and you are in a huge school of fish and you don't want to go to shore.
2. When on the road and you have to make good time.
3. See Bill of rights, tenth amendment and find a way to apply it here :)
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