User talk:Maury Markowitz/ArchiveOld

wickelrumph
wickelrumph is kind of hard to explain without a picture. basically, it used long strips or bands of plywood that were glued together side by side. then, another layer of strips were glued on top in a different direction.


 * my source says it's actually strips of plywood. see Pfalz Aircraft of World War I (Great War Aircraft in Profile, Volume 4) by Jack Herris, at pages 30 and 32. that said, after looking around some more, i think it might actually be thin veneer strips. From what i understand, Deperdussin used veneer strips of tulipwood. i guess i'll change the article.


 * thanks. also, i thought your article on the Mercedes D.III was excellent.

thanks for the kind words, and for writing such excellent articles on the Mercedes D.III (i added a picture) and the Siemens-Schuckert D series.

Pfalz rudder
If its all right with you, I'd like to delete the references in the Pfalz D.III article to the shape of the rudder and vertical fin. That was actually a pretty common shape in German planes. See the Roland D.XV, D.XVII, Halberstadt C.V, CL.IV, CLS.I, Pfalz D.XV, LVG CIV, C.V, C.VI, and Gotha G.I. If it was something really different, like the Hannover's biplane tail, it would certainly be worth mentioning. But the D.III, I kind of don't see it.

XPLANE
Hi Maury, I got your note about the XPLANE article. It has been deleted by an admin. Do you know where deleted articles go? I intend to propose it for deletion review but have no idea where to find it or how to reference it.

Avro Arrow revisited
Maury, the article seems to be better wrtiten but I still think there should be a proper notes and reference section rather than the "more reading and viewing" section that is presently there. What do you think? Other editors have left the section in place but the idea of POV is present. Bzuk 14:41 3 January 2007 (UTC). BTW Happy New Year.

Avrocar again
Maury, please look over the article again- I've made some changes based on a recent review. BTW thanks for your support on another issue, specifically, the de Havilland Comet research. Bzuk 17:43 17 February 2007 (UTC).

WHILE YOU ARE AT IT, PLEASE REMOVE THE 'SILLIPUTTY' FROM MY OPUSCALGARY SITE. You may want to consult with someone who understands ip addressing.

PzKpfw IV
I think I have found the reason of the claim that KwK 40 was incapable of penetrating Sherman's frontal armor at combat ranges. The former wikist was refering to M4A3 with 64mm hull front and 103mm turret. That would make a lot of sense. -Chin, Cheng-chuan

Help
Our mutal Italian friend requires some help in editing, he is now contributing to the Ki-61 Hien and Ki-100. I can sort out some of the grammar and spelling, but I have corrected this countless times. He continues to make the same mistakes, not capitalizing months, using measures such as "ltrs." and other basic errors. I have written to him by email, posted on his home page and asked for other help from the aviation group forum. There is also another major issue that I haven't fully addressed but that is that most of the submissions are POV and sound like they are copied from magazines as well as being wholly Italian-centred- go figure, but still, much of the stuff is useless but I don't want to just hack and slash. What do you think? FWIW Bzuk.

TV8-301
HEY check this out! I commented and mentioned you.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StbCuBM3lA0

"Worldwide View" tag in Atari BASIC
Frankly I have no idea what that "Worldwide View" tag in the Atari BASIC article. Perhaps after some revisions it has become unnecessary. The only thing I could think of was that CES was not spelled out in full, but it is right at the bottom of the preceding para. Best to remove it, I think. I'll do that if I don't hear back from you soon (and if you don't do it yourself).

Best wishes

S.


 * There was no Spanish version of Atari BASIC in the sense that there were Spanish keywords or anything like that ("SI" instead of "IF", and so on). This would simply be a program that happens to display Spanish text.


 * In the Rev C ROMs – or rather, I think, in the larger OS rather than in the BASIC itself – there was another font (i.e. 1K of course) that had accented letters instead of graphics symbols (blocks and lines etc). This was intended for the European market (mine did have this), but never really was used very much, because of compatibility etc etc and the general ignorance of Americans to this day of thinking that twenty-six letters is quite enough, thank-you. (That is meant more humorously than as a real slight; computing has become very much less Americo-centric, but still many things -- URLs for example -- assume a Latin alphabet without accents.)


 * I'll try to contribute to the "split" discussion – I've not read it yet, been rather busy, but I suggested a couple of months ago I wanted to split out the OS stuff from the BASIC stuff, and the problem with them being both together is, in my view, because doing so makes two articles which really each is not enough of an article each on its own. But in principle I would prefer to Atari 8-bit OS (not too worried about the title right now) and Atari BASIC if they had a bit more in them.

Best wishes S.

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