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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: dizman on March 09, 2006, 03:00:48 PM
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Well, I was just drivin around and I saw a Mercedes Benz. It was an older model and as I drove up behind it I saw it's id number, 190 D. Does anyone else find that kinda creepy that Mercedes has gone evil yet again with Mercedes Benz 190 d's!
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sorry to be the fun police here.... but didnt 190D-9's have Junkers engines? ;)
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Jumo...
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Ever wonder about the Audi A4?
-Sik
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(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/Hendon/GermanWw2/HendonJu88.jpg)
look at the engine nacelle.
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I'm just sayin this cause Mercedez is German, I know that the engines in the 190's werent Mercedez.
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lol furby, BoB wing at RAF museum Hendon? i love that place:aok
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yah, its cool.
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Originally posted by Furball
yah, its cool.
i live kinda down the road. i go there quite a bit, but i havent seen their new liberator yet
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i have, its nice. SEAC markings
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Originally posted by Furball
i have, its nice. SEAC markings
cool. i was there once when they had some old bomber command vets visiting the museum. the manager came out and let them onto the lanc they have there. i managed to take a peek through the hatch and see up and down the fuselage but that's all they would allow:furious
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Some 190s were powered by DB engines. Read up on the development of the Dora. The D-14 and D-15 were to use DB engines.
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Ever notice a general similarity between sportscars and ww2 fighters from the different countries?
Eg: P-47 = 60's muscle car - big engine with lots of power, heavy body means that its not as good when it comes to turning. A6M = Japanese lightweight sportscars like S2000, RX-7(Mazda engineers actually studied A6M design for the last model).
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Don't worry - FOCKE WULF made the 190D - not Mercedes. ;)
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Compare the turrets of those two tanks: Tiger 1 and Leopard 2.
:noid
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Compare the Me110 and the Eurofighter! Both have 2 engines and wings.
scary stuff indeed
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All i'm sayin is it's kinda suspicious that a german car company is giving one of their cars the same model number as the FW-190 d. I realize Mercedes had almost zilch to do with the 190 fighterplane.
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Originally posted by justin_g
Ever notice a general similarity between sportscars and ww2 fighters from the different countries?
Eg: P-47 = 60's muscle car - big engine with lots of power, heavy body means that its not as good when it comes to turning. A6M = Japanese lightweight sportscars like S2000, RX-7(Mazda engineers actually studied A6M design for the last model).
Luftluuver over at Ubi Zoo has an neat sig, http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/8511084614
A Spitfire sportscar chasing a Messerschmitt bubble car.
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Originally posted by dizman
All i'm sayin is it's kinda suspicious that a german car company is giving one of their cars the same model number as the FW-190 d. I realize Mercedes had almost zilch to do with the 190 fighterplane.
It's logical. Is a Mercedes 190 (first small Merceses ) with a diesel engine.
Relax, is not a conspiracy :D
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Originally posted by dizman
All i'm sayin is it's kinda suspicious that a german car company is giving one of their cars the same model number as the FW-190 d. I realize Mercedes had almost zilch to do with the 190 fighterplane.
Mercedes has a long history of naming their cars based on their engine capacity. However, when the then new 190 came out in the eighties, the 190 name was chosen because it indicated it came below the 200 in the range. This had nothing to do with engine capacity.
The '200' range basic engine was indeed a 2 liter engine, in petrol and diesel variants, but they used engines up to 3 liters with 4, 5 and 6 cylinders. Eventually the nomenclature was changed, the 190 became the class, the 200 became the E class
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Originally posted by justin_g
Ever notice a general similarity between sportscars and ww2 fighters from the different countries?
Eg: P-47 = 60's muscle car - big engine with lots of power, heavy body means that its not as good when it comes to turning. A6M = Japanese lightweight sportscars like S2000, RX-7(Mazda engineers actually studied A6M design for the last model).
Don't worry HTC will model it with VSTOl flaps and it'll turn tighter than a Spit :D
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Actually I think you may be on to something with design and locatin. The Japanese planes were light real manueverable if you come out here there cars are all like that as well small size and small engines but they are fast as he11 and can turn on a dime. Maybe a cultureal thinking when it comes to design???