User talk:Maury Markowitz/Archive Jan 2008

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Mid-Canada Line
That was so long ago; I can't remember why I put it up. You can take it off if you want. Larry V (talk &#124; e-mail) 04:27, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok cool, I was wondering! Maury (talk) 16:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Origins of the Do-17
Copyedit from my talk page: "The more I read the history, the more I'm convinced that the "standard story" is at least in large part true. IE, it was originally ordered for Lufthansa and then later converted as a bomber. Certainly it's possible that the specifics of the story could be a cover, in that they had wanted a bomber design from late '33 as the article now reads. But even if that is the case, then it was still ordered as a civilian design. Which is what Green and practically everyone else said too.

I have the weekend off (kid's at her grandmas) so I'm planning a trip over to the Reference Library. I'll be looking for the Air Enthusiast issue, do you have any other refs I should check out while I'm there?

Maury (talk) 16:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)"
 * I have the opposite happening as our grandchild is visiting from TO but I did sneak a look at William Green's Famous Bombers of the Second World War, David Mondey's Axis Aircraft of World War II and Christopher Shepherd's German Aircraft of World War II, and all sources agree that the Dornier Do 17 had its origins as a fast mail plane and that the usual "cover" story really was conected with the He 111 and has now somehow been converted to include the Do 17 as well. FWIW, Green devotes two pages to its unsuitable use as a Lufthansa transport and how the aircraft was converted to a bomber. Bzuk (talk) 18:47, 22 December 2007 (UTC).

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Brabazon / Shrimpton
Michael Shrimpton is, or was, famous as a metric martyr - the BBC mentions him here. In brief, the EU imposed a rule whereby British shopkeepers had to label their goods in metric, or face prosecution; the metric martyrs disagreed. It seemed odd that a person I had once very tangentally worked with should appear on Wikipedia, in such an odd context. He must be a contrary fellow. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 03:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In fact he's doubly interesting as an example of Wikipedia's theoretically level playing field. In the real world Michael Shrimpton is a learned man with a certain amount of influence, he is the kind of person you would want to countersign your shotgun licence application, for example. But on Wikipedia he is just like any other editor, and in this case I think his approach was dead wrong, and rightly it didn't work. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "kind of person you would want to countersign your shotgun licence"
 * LOL. I think this is another thing that doesn't translate well... :-) Maury (talk) 22:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Heinkel He 113
Hi, excuse me for my poor english. Can You load to commons the "He 113" (OK it's a He 110...) for use this in it.wiki? Thanks...--Threecharlie (talk) 23:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)