Guess where this is?

[jms]

Spot on!

[Fat Tone]

How about:

[jms]

Skegness Clock Tower?

[Fat Tone]

3 minutes!!!! Bloody hell man.

[jms]

lol, I've seen it before.

Where's this?

[Fat Tone]

No sh*t!

Flydalsjuvet, Geiranger Fjord, Norway

[jms]

Correct once again!

[Fat Tone]

I'm on a roll.

Try

[Brian Ellis]

Blue Streak test area at RAF Spadeadam

Bloody hell, I was there several times in the 1950s/60s when they were testing the rocket motors. Rolls-Royce was one of my employer's customers and we developed a system for measuring LOX tank contents under weightless conditions. A very difficult problem which was never put to the test except in gravity conditions. I witnessed two static firings.

Give me a kick!!!!

[Nowhere]

...Rolls-Royce was one of my employer's customers and we developed a system for measuring LOX tank contents under weightless conditions. A very difficult problem which was never put to the test except in gravity conditions. I witnessed two static firings.
...

So I wonder...how does it work? (for the time beeing I connected it with the fact that in the tanks of Apollo service module there were "mixers" of some kind apparently - could it be that one of their functions was measuring the drag (and so: average density) of contents?)

[jms]

I'm on a roll.

Try

Hmm, I really don't know. Hard to make out who the statue is. At first I thought Shakespeare, but on closer inspection it looks like a woman? Hard to tell.

[Brian Ellis]

Going off-topic now. The tank had two 3-D honeycombs of thin titanium strips at 90°, so they were insulated from each other and the electrical capacity was measured between them. The dielectric constant of LOX is higher than that of oxygen gas, so the capacity gave an accurate figure of the liquid content, no matter where and how it was in the tank. To visualise it better, touch the middle finger with your thumb of each hand, interlocking them, then moving them so the two rings don't touch each other. The strips were about 25 mm wide and the honeycomb cells about 100 mm across. A real pig to make, though, as each cell had to be closed by spot welding by hand after it was positioned. We made only one for a small experimental LOX tank and it worked. The Blue Streak project was abandoned shortly after.

[Fat Tone]

Hmm, I really don't know. Hard to make out who the statue is. At first I thought Shakespeare, but on closer inspection it looks like a woman? Hard to tell.

The statue is female. The locals use a name that has royal connections but not the one you would think. You might say this was the original. The real name has more ethereal qualities.

Going off-topic now. The tank had two 3-D honeycombs of thin titanium strips at 90°, so they were insulated from each other and the electrical capacity was measured between them. The dielectric constant of LOX is higher than that of oxygen gas, so the capacity gave an accurate figure of the liquid content, no matter where and how it was in the tank. To visualise it better, touch the middle finger with your thumb of each hand, interlocking them, then moving them so the two rings don't touch each other. The strips were about 25 mm wide and the honeycomb cells about 100 mm across. A real pig to make, though, as each cell had to be closed by spot welding by hand after it was positioned. We made only one for a small experimental LOX tank and it worked. The Blue Streak project was abandoned shortly after.

Capacitance is used as standard now for measuring the contents of cryogenics. At least it was when I worked at NPL. I have often wondered how F1 teams know so precisely how much fuel is in their tanks. Some variation of that I guess?

[Brian Ellis]

Is the lady in question moe commonly portrayed in a chariot? I did a very quick search using both her common name and her less common one but came up with nothing.

[Fat Tone]

No. She is a Goddess's nymph, and the architect is extremely famous.