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Offline 28sweep

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Howard Huges Designed the Zero
« on: July 31, 2002, 09:13:06 AM »
So I'm watching CNN (Larry King) and they discussing Howard Huges.  One of his friends say's "You know Larry-Howard Huges designed the Japanese Zero."  I almost fell out of my chair.  How could he make that absurd claim.  I then rembered that I had heard this before.  I know it can't be true....does anybody know what they are remotely talking about????????  What is this claim based on and has anybody heard this before???
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Offline Wotan

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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2002, 09:15:49 AM »
he was fooling around with x-plane and the idea............

ah hell nevermind..........
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Offline HFMudd

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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2002, 09:26:03 AM »
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Howard Huges designed the Japanese Zero

Why this would mean that Howard Huges and Kurt Tank are the same person! :eek:
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Offline Turbot

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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2002, 09:49:20 AM »
http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/hughes_h1.htm

"The Hughes H-1 racer was a major milestone aircraft on the road to such radial engine-powered World War II fighters as the American Grumman F6F Hellcat and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Japanese Mitsubishi Type 0 (Zero), and the German Focke-WuIf FW 190. It demonstrated that properly designed radial-engine aircraft could compete with the lower-drag inline designs despite having larger frontal areas because of their radial engine installations."

That is as much "designing" of the Zero Hughes did.

Now in the course of reading I did see this:



Would you beleive this is a 1937 BRITISH plane?  ( Gloster F.5/34 )

I am ashamed to say I did believe the Zero was made mostly of fabric  (when in fact was aluminum) :(

This is a good article

http://www.vectorsite.net/avzero.html
« Last Edit: July 31, 2002, 09:51:22 AM by Turbot »
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Offline NATEDOG

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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2002, 12:58:02 PM »
I thought Al Gore invented the zero.
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2002, 01:06:47 PM »
Hughes is more responsible for designing the  190 than the zero.   Kurt tank was just an imitator/pretender.
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Offline easymo

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Howard Huges Designed the Zero
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2002, 01:21:33 PM »
I thought Al Gore invented the zero

Wrong.

Al Gore invented whineing.
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2002, 01:42:35 PM »
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Originally posted by easymo
I thought Al Gore invented the zero

Wrong.

Al Gore invented whineing.

True, but he IS a zero....   :p
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2002, 03:27:31 PM »
the quote your takin out of context for the 1000 th or so time aint makin you look any smarter.
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2002, 03:53:45 PM »
Dont  get these guys started..well atelast its in here...

Everyday in the MA..i see..Algore invented Panzers

Al gore invented Disco

Alg ore invented the B-17\


Al gore invented Dive Brakes..
lmfao...

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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2002, 03:57:28 PM »
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Originally posted by BGBMAW
Dont  get these guys started..well atelast its in here...

Everyday in the MA..i see..Algore invented Panzers

Al gore invented Disco

Alg ore invented the B-17\


Al gore invented Dive Brakes..
lmfao...

:)

Love BiGB


Al Gore invented sheep porn which starred Kurt Tank.


Ack-Ack
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Offline Zero Pilot

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Who Made the Zero?
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2002, 04:59:10 PM »
Howdy,        This book will help greatly ( Eagles of Mitsubishi The story of the Zero Fighter) By Jiro Horikoshi..Howard just used the Radial engine in his racer.  and you know the rest of the story....
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Offline HFMudd

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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2002, 05:40:30 PM »
Al Gore's actual statement was, "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet. "

I'm confident that what he intended was more along the lines of "creating a congressional interest in" as opposed to simply "creating."  Sadly for him that is not what he said, and Wired made a lot of good crunchy hay out of it.
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Offline Kweassa

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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2002, 10:29:20 PM »
Hughes designed the Zero. It's true.

 But Kurt Tank designed Hughes.

 
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2002, 10:42:17 PM »
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Al Gore's actual statement was, "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet. "

I'm confident that what he intended was more along the lines of "creating a congressional interest in" as opposed to simply "creating."  Sadly for him that is not what he said, and Wired made a lot of good crunchy hay out of it.


All's fair, and nothing new...Dan Quayle got hung with a lot of misstatements too...

Did you hear that Candice Bergan ate her words Re Quayle?  It was below the fold, page 38...tough to miss it.

And correct me if I am wrong, don't the british spell potato p-o-t-a-t-o-e?
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