WHIFS found while Google-ing

[NARSES2]

I used to watch gophers digging up coal on my parents farm. I doubt they were down very far.


Alvis Pi

I now have this vision of Gophers with tall Stove Pipe hats and names like George S and Isambard !  Why on earth would they dig coal up ? Or was it simply a by product of their tunneling ? If the latter then their claws are far, far tougher than I imagined.

[loupgarou]

I used to watch gophers digging up coal on my parents farm. I doubt they were down very far.


Alvis Pi

Are gophers easy to train? Could be a new ecological method for coal mining...

[kitnut617]

I used to watch gophers digging up coal on my parents farm. I doubt they were down very far.


Alvis Pi

I now have this vision of Gophers with tall Stove Pipe hats and names like George S and Isambard !  Why on earth would they dig coal up ? Or was it simply a by product of their tunneling ? If the latter then their claws are far, far tougher than I imagined.

The top soil around my place is only about 12-18 inches deep, then it's into hard clay (sediment from millions of years ago when a huge inland sea sat over the area) which even using a crowbar to break it up it tough going (I know because I was trying to put in fence posts a few years ago). The gophers (actually ground squirrels) dig down into this clay to get below the frost line during winter. The frost line at my latitude is about 6 feet down.

[NARSES2]

So maybe we should train them ?

Cheers mate 

[Alvis 3.14159]

Kitnut lives near where I grew up. The coal deposits are really near the surface. My brother worked at a gravel pit nearby and used to see loads of petrified wood rolling along into the crushers. he saved me a couple chunks.

Alvis Pi

[zenrat]

I'd be scared too if I was about to be crushed...

Coat, hat, outahere...

[Dizzyfugu]

Stumbled upon this Gerry-Anderson-esque F-100 conversion...

[63cpe]

Great find! it's definately a looker! What a striking scheme!

David

[PR19_Kit]

An excellent idea. 

[Madoc]

And that Gerry-Anderson F-100 doesn't even look slightly out of place.  It looks... right..

[kerick]

I wonder how that would look on the F-107???

[NARSES2]

An excellent idea. 

Yup, but to my mind it would suit French roundels far better for some reason ?

[ericr]

An excellent idea. 

Yup, but to my mind it would suit French roundels far better for some reason ?

 

[Captain Canada]

Love that F-100 idea ! Now there's one I'd like to see, and fly around the room 

[Tophe]

I have found this asymmetric push-pull at https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/EOW2DQ/Push-pull-twin-fuselage-dive-bomber