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  • redboat219
    Admiral

    • Dec 2008
    • 3078
    #1

    What's this

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    any guess what this is?

    Make it simple, make strong, make it work!
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    • He Who Shall Not Be Named
      Moderator

      • Aug 2008
      • 12808
      #2
      Originally posted by redboat219
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      any guess what this is?
      Mobile weather-station?
      Who is John Galt?

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        • redboat219
          Admiral

          • Dec 2008
          • 3078
          #3
          Snorkel Simulator
          US Naval Air Station, Patuxent River Submarine Simulator used in ASW training.

          Uses a Capture German Submarine Snorkel for the topside portion.
          Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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            • redboat219
              Admiral

              • Dec 2008
              • 3078
              #4
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              Operator rode the simulator.
              Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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                • Albacore 569
                  Commander

                  • Sep 2020
                  • 428
                  #5
                  Originally posted by redboat219
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                  Operator rode the simulator.
                  Guess thats is one way to test the snorkel head Valve close actuator...lol. As Crocodile Dundee says , 'Just kids having fun'....


                  I wrote initially I thought it was a paravane, looking closer at the photo, it looks like some test of some special ops water scooter? lol.


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                  There is a propellor (looks like 2 blades on front f lower control surfaces. The background things architecture, men's clothes, houses, cars looks like New England in early 1950's.
                  Last edited by Albacore 569; 02-05-2024, 07:56 PM.

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                    • wlambing
                      Commander

                      • Nov 2020
                      • 322
                      #6
                      That boy ain't right! He's gonna wreck his good shoes!

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