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·When it absolutely has to be there on time...
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SpeedyPhill
·65 years ago... NASA "Mercury 13"
By the end of the summer of 1961, nineteen female airline pilots had taken astronaut fitness examinations at the Lovelace Clinic in in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The fact that 13 women passed the same physical and mental tests as the original "Mercury 7" male astronauts showed they could be the female Right Stuff.
Their names are: 'K' Cagle, Jerrie Cobb, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Mary Wally Funk, Jane Hart, Jean Hixson, Gene Nora Jessen, Irene Leverton, Sarah Ratley, 'B' Steadman, Jerri Truhill and Rhea Woltman. In the end Jerrie Cobb and Mary Wallace Funk completed Phase III.
The 1961 photo shows Mary Wally Funk next to a Lockheed T-33 T-bird subsonic jet trainer. In July 2021, aged 80 Wally Funk flew onboard the sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-16 flight, she passsed away on 8th July 2026.
(photo: NASA)
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By the end of the summer of 1961, nineteen female airline pilots had taken astronaut fitness examinations at the Lovelace Clinic in in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The fact that 13 women passed the same physical and mental tests as the original "Mercury 7" male astronauts showed they could be the female Right Stuff.
Their names are: 'K' Cagle, Jerrie Cobb, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Mary Wally Funk, Jane Hart, Jean Hixson, Gene Nora Jessen, Irene Leverton, Sarah Ratley, 'B' Steadman, Jerri Truhill and Rhea Woltman. In the end Jerrie Cobb and Mary Wallace Funk completed Phase III.
The 1961 photo shows Mary Wally Funk next to a Lockheed T-33 T-bird subsonic jet trainer. In July 2021, aged 80 Wally Funk flew onboard the sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-16 flight, she passsed away on 8th July 2026.
(photo: NASA)
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Duracuir1
··Never Used A Kodak
I picked this up for a few bucks at a garage sale. Aluminum.
Since there is no windmill thread, may I ask if this could be aviation-related?
Pictured with my DaveK ball cap.
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I picked this up for a few bucks at a garage sale. Aluminum.
Since there is no windmill thread, may I ask if this could be aviation-related?
Pictured with my DaveK ball cap.
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I picked this up for a few bucks at a garage sale. Aluminum.
Since there is no windmill thread, may I ask if this could be aviation-related?
There is a big range of ventilation, circulation, air movement products in there but they are classified according to whether you have pigs, cows, wall units, roof units: not by part number.
but P1146 must be in there somewhere, maybe in the spare parts lists, which are classified as 30 series, 40 series....90 series, etc. Not helpful to us but I am sure this fan, or it's CFRP current replacement is in there somewhere. If you have the patience of the people who translated Linear-B https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/process.pdf then go search for it.
What I have done as an evening's entertainment! How sad can you get?
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··Never Used A KodakI think it's from an agricultural or commercial fan or blower unit. Putting "P1146" into Google search came up with this website as the top answer:- https://www.canarm.com/hvac/
There is a big range of ventilation, circulation, air movement products in there but they are classified according to whether you have pigs, cows, wall units, roof units: not by part number.
but P1146 must be in there somewhere, maybe in the spare parts lists, which are classified as 30 series, 40 series....90 series, etc. Not helpful to us but I am sure this fan, or it's CFRP current replacement is in there somewhere. If you have the patience of the people who translated Linear-B https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/process.pdf then go search for it.
What I have done as an evening's entertainment! How sad can you get?
Brilliant MRC. Thank you.
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·This is what working on a real propeller looks like. Kermit Weeks helps fit the prop to his Hawker Demon w/ R-R Kestrel, fresh today!