The 'Today's Job' thread

[Furniss]

You rednecks on here are obviously having an an influence on me ....had a right laugh watching a load of blokes fookkng about trying to get this contraption up and running this afternoon !

 

[Smiffy]

On the way to Omaha beach with the parachutist hanging from the spire?

Yes the airborne museum is opposite the church and the whole village is full of dodgy memorabilia shops.

 

[Giles]

Couple more Normandy museums.
Went to the airborne museum yesterday and the Pegasus bridge museum today.
The airborne museum was really good impeccably maintained and clearly a Great deal has been spent on the place. However I have a feeling it is heavily financed by the Americans, infact I think most the museums that we visited are as if you visited them you would have no idea that the British Canadians or any of the other allies to part in the war. They are also filled with reproduction tat in the gift shops which I find disrespectful to am extent. Pegasus bridge museum is by far smaller and simpler but is about the efforts of the British and Canadian paratroopers so is definitely worth a visit. View attachment 74523View attachment 74524View attachment 74525View attachment 74526View attachment 74528View attachment 74527View attachment 74528View attachment 74529View attachment 74530View attachment 74532View attachment 74533View attachment 74534

The guy who wrote band of brothers has a book about Pegasus bridge as well well worth a read

 

[Giles]

The museum at arromarches is well worth a visit about the mulberry harbour 2002 when I was there

 

[6feetdown]

Yes the airborne museum is opposite the church and the whole village is full of dodgy memorabilia shops.

We didn't stop in the village as it was in the February

 

[6feetdown]

The museum at arromarches is well worth a visit about the mulberry harbour 2002 when I was there

China have built the equivalent Mullberry pontoons not far from Thaiwan

 

[Silversabre]

China have built the equivalent Mullberry pontoons not far from Thaiwan

You refering to the boat pontoons that where photographed early this year.

Have you seen the ekranoplan

 

[6feetdown]

You refering to the boat pontoons that where photographed early this year.

Have you seen the ekranoplan

No what is it?

 

[V8Druid]

On the way to Omaha beach with the parachutist hanging from the spire?

my old man was a sergeant in the para.s .. never spoke about it much, but do know he did, 37 drops
must've enlisted, 'cos he spent the last two years of his service in the late '40s in Rawlpindhi, in India (no idea why) where he developed an asbestos mouth and tin stomach - never seen anyone else who could drink tea so hot !! virtually straight out of the kettle

 

[V8Druid]

You rednecks on here are obviously having an an influence on me ....had a right laugh watching a load of blokes fookkng about trying to get this contraption up and running this afternoon !
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beautiful Duke .... what the hell is on the back of the MF??

 

[V8Druid]

No what is it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

 

[Silversabre]

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/06/china-builds-new-jet-powered-large-ekranoplan/

 

[Furniss]

beautiful Duke .... what the hell is on the back of the MF??

Camping pod

 

[Grahams]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan


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Am I missing something? What is the point of these things? It doesn't seem to work like a landing craft. Just appears to be a hugely complicated fast boat. Videos only ever seem to show them going in straight lines. It would look like if you tried to turn quickly one of the wing tips would hit the water and that would be very bad at those sort of speeds. Hydrofoils look a lot easier if you really need high speed ships and they have been used succesfully for decades.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Am I missing something? What is the point of these things? It doesn't seem to work like a landing craft. Just appears to be a hugely complicated fast boat. Videos only ever seem to show them going in straight lines. It would look like if you tried to turn quickly one of the wing tips would hit the water and that would be very bad at those sort of speeds. Hydrofoils look a lot easier if you really need high speed ships and they have been used succesfully for decades.

All looks a bit AI...

 

[Silversabre]

I imagine they'd be a great way to surprise an enemy and secure a bridge head to allow armour to land.

Imagine the conditions have to be perfect for them too.

 

[Gecko]

The soviets built a few for very rapid deplyment on the caspian sea.
They are basicly an aircraft that relies on ground effect (a high pressure cusion of air between the wing and the water).
They fly very fast and low enough to be under most radar.
The one above is a Lun Class, could carry 100t of cargo and travel at 550km/h
The missile tubes are for anti ship attack.

This one served into the late 1990's

 

[doobin]

The soviets built a few for very rapid deplyment on the caspian sea.
They are basicly an aircraft that relies on ground effect (a high pressure cusion of air between the wing and the water).
They fly very fast and low enough to be under most radar.
The one above is a Lun Class, could carry 100t of cargo and travel at 550km/h
The missile tubes are for anti ship attack.

This one served into the late 1990's

How do they unload onto the beach and then turn around and take off again?

 

[JD450A]

How do they unload onto the beach and then turn around and take off again?

They where pretty much just prototype. Idea is they can work in reasonably bad conditions and are seriously quick..... Not so much just the Caspian, think more the invasion of America.

Like many things of the era, seriously clever engineering into a niche..... Very expensive and impractical.

 

[HuntingHicap]

Not my job but the company I work for is supplying machines, I sorted the hires.