Burma Spitfires

[Krusty]

Okay, bad example. I didn't remember that correctly. I was thinking only of the team that found her, not all the previous teams.

[nrshida]

Plus, wood or not, burried in a humid muddy soild would yield a pile of metalic rust by now.

There would be very little rust.

[Krusty]

There would be very little rust.

What makes you say that?

[nrshida]

What makes you say that?

Because aeroplanes aren't flying cars dingleberry 

Rust requires water, oxygen and ferrite and there isn't very much ferrite in Spitfire. Mostly it's just confined to selected engine parts. Silicon and magnesium alloys oxidise but that's different.

[Krusty]

You're being too literal.

By rust I meant corrode, oxidize, deteriorate. We know this to happen even when WW2 planes weren't burried in wet soil.

For a minute I thought you might know some special packing method which prevented it, but I was waiting to see what you had to say before getting into that.

[nrshida]

You're being too literal.

By rust I meant corrode, oxidize, deteriorate. We know this to happen even when WW2 planes weren't burried in wet soil.

Not literal, accurate. I notice with interest that once again you become defensive and reframe the discussion instead of taking the opportunity to accept knowledge and learn something in good faith.

For a minute I thought you might know some special packing method which prevented it, but I was waiting to see what you had to say before getting into that.

I do. Exclude one of those three components I listed above, like the Spitfire found in the Irish bog (no oxygen). They just recharged the battery, refuelled it and flew it away. 

[Krusty]

Not literal, accurate. I notice with interest that once again you become defensive and reframe the discussion instead of taking the opportunity to accept knowledge and learn something in good faith.

And I notice more of your patented roadkill. I am not defensive and I am not reframing jack toejam. You were taking "rust" to be too literal. You were trying to nitpick some finer point and single it out as an excuse to throw insults my way. This is common with many of your posts.

I do. Exclude one of those three components I listed above, like the Spitfire found in the Irish bog (no oxygen). They just recharged the battery, refuelled it and flew it away. 

Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment, but I'm not. And I"m not taking you too literally. Rather 2-faced of you to act so literal in one line (to the point of verbal assault) then in the next turn around and take an exaggerated stance. You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.

[nrshida]

And I notice more of your patented roadkill. I am not defensive and I am not reframing jack toejam. You were taking "rust" to be too literal. You were trying to nitpick some finer point and single it out as an excuse to throw insults my way. This is common with many of your posts.

You didn't know did you, the difference between rust, corrosion and oxidisation? Rusty aeroplanes    Your technical knowledge knows no start does it 

Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment...

...You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.

...and more classic Krusty, avoid explicitly breaking the rules while still sneaking in your retaliatory insult. Excellent.

[Bodhi]

Krusty, are you always a victim? 

[BaldEagl]

Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment, but I'm not. And I"m not taking you too literally. Rather 2-faced of you to act so literal in one line (to the point of verbal assault) then in the next turn around and take an exaggerated stance. You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.