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My first wheel spun yarns- bottom right is the wool that came with the wheel. Top left is most recent.
B24 Liberator bomber, electric motor that feeds ammunition to the rear turret machine guns.
Information from the City of Norwich Aviation Museum.
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber's rear turret machine guns were fed ammunition using an electric motor system. The B-24, like other bombers of the era, relied on electric motors to facilitate the movement and delivery of ammunition to the turret guns. These motors, often part of a larger hydraulic system, were designed to efficiently load and feed the .50 caliber Browning machine guns in the turret.
Photos of Consolidated B-24 Liberator M6 Rear Gun Turret, at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton. (www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/39u91b9Nt0)
Consolidated M6 Rear Gun Turret as used on the B-24 Liberator Bombers, hydraulically operated with two Browning AN-M2 .50 caliber machine guns, belt fed ammunition from containers, each holding 1,000 rounds.
▪︎Muzzle Velocity: 2,854 ft / sec
▪︎Rate of Fire: approximately 750 rounds per minute
▪︎Effective Range: 3,510 ft with destructive force
▪︎Types of Ammunition:
• Black Tip - Armour Piercing
• Red Tip - Tracer
• Blue Tip - Incendiary
• Silver - Armour Piercing & Incendiary
▪︎Armour Plate Glass Rear window.
The Gunner would be less than 5ft 10in tall and weigh less than 160lbs, he would be wearing:
▪︎F1 Heated Flying Suit, which would be plugged into socket in rear turret during flight
▪︎D1 Boots
▪︎E1 Gloves
▪︎B6 / B10 Sheepskin Jacket
▪︎A5 / A9 Sheepskin Trousers
▪︎Two pairs, Lined Wool Socks
▪︎B5 Leather Shearling Helmet
▪︎Oxygen Mask (used above 10,000ft) fed from A12 Demand Type Oxygen Regulator (adjustable by operator)
▪︎18 large Oxygen Cylinders, each containg 5 hours supply for one man in fuselage
▪︎Back style Parachutes could be worn or kept outside of turret
▪︎Flack Vests could also be worn, weighing 20lbs, for protection against light machine gun bullets or shrapnel
▪︎The Gunner could eat candy bars, but no drinks because of freezing temperatures -1°c to - 5°c
▪︎Toilet was a tube to aircraft exterior, but when frozen, a tin on the floor !
▪︎Duration of the flight depended on target, which could be from 4 hours to 8 hours plus.
Information from the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum.
Camera : Leica M3
Lens : Summicron 50mm f/2
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 @400
Developing: Kodak HC-110 1+31 (B), 7:30' at 20°C
Scan: OpticFilm Plustek 8200i + Silverfast
This is one ply of the Wellington Fibres wool/mohair blend, and one ply of the mystery fluff Catt shared with me.
The first yarn I sold on Etsy =) It's a yummy, vibrant wool blend, spun and plied on my drop spindle.
The locally produced wool was slightly itchy, so I knit in a cashmere/merino liner (left over from Halfdome hats)
my super thin yarn. the colors are gorgeous! hopefully i can start spinning a better thin single for the socks i don't know how to knit yet.
Knit in yarn imported from Japan that I picked up at Habu Textiles. I am done the main body, but now need to find the perfect edging.
i made this hat start to finish in 6 hours. the pattern was really fun. the only mod i made was to shorten the brim ribbing by half, as i have a large noggin. hats with folded brims fit too snuggly for me. if i did it again, i'd only do 10 rows of ribbing. the hat is slightly too long, but comfortably snug. made from knitpicks wool of the andes, 2 skeins.
This is my first Calorimetry. I made it out of some stash wool on my size 0 needles, which is why it turned out so small. I then dyed it with blue food coloring; the stripes form the first 40 digits of the number e in binary when read from buttonhole to button.
Mystical Creation Yarns wool/silk in "Exotic"
I'm using 3 skeins of this stuff for a clapotis. I bought the third skein after the first two and it's quite darker than they are. To try to mask this problem, once I get to the straight rows, I'll start alternating the darker skein with the lighter skein.