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Re: Caribbean Clipper Cwestion
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:21:37 GMT
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Steve Campbell wrote in message <3821FE96.C2E41D7A@larc.nasa.gov>...
So what's up with the cannon port covers on the (6274) Caribbean
Clipper?

Mmmm.  I'd noticed that from a picture somewhere.  I don't think I've ever
seen a real ship with the ports organised in this fashion.  It seems to me
that you normally have plenty of time to open a port, and might have a need
to close one in a hurry.  It would seem to make sense then that they would
be organised so that they could just fall closed.

I'd fix 'em.

If I had one of the Caribbean clippers.

Which I don't.

Anyone giving them away?



What, no takers?

<sigh>

Richard
Still baldly going...
Speak to the Governor at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
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So what's up with the cannon port covers on the (6274) Caribbean Clipper? I just got mine form England and I was going through the directions when I noticed that the blue side port covers (flaps) are mounted upside down. They close up instead of (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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