+DamhuisClan Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'll go for Q8, since I worked there for a while. Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'll go for Q8, since I worked there for a while. Cold Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'll throw in a wildcard. Khazakstan Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I'll throw in a wildcard. Khazakstan Hot. Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Russia? AT LAST!! Go for it wazat! Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Lucky guess... What was Project Excelsior? Quote Link to comment
+VryBurgers Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 A South African secret weapon program to do with radar perhaps? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 A large scale industrial complex construction project in South Africa? Mining related? Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Gotta be military related. But what? Breaking the sound barrier. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Mmmm on the right track... But still not right. Quote Link to comment
+VryBurgers Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The project for the Rooivalk? Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Project to fly higher than normal flight - into stratosphere. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Not quite right but close.... Quote Link to comment
+VryBurgers Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 What about a flight into space? Quote Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Looks like this one has a slow puncture! Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 You guys have the right direction but what did it involve.... Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Getting the Shuttle back off the ground after the Challenger disaster? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Cincol was in a way on the right track, but not the answer I am looking for. Edited January 16, 2012 by Wazat Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Out of space or stratospheric speed record? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Well there was a speed record broken during the project.... Quote Link to comment
+VryBurgers Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Chuck Yeager's test flight in the X-1 (or something like that)? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Fastest speed any man has travelled within the atmosphere - in any vehicle type? Or highest g-force ever on a person? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Gonna give it to you CH.... Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Colonel (then Captain) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump, the longest parachute drogue fall and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, all of which still stand. Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Wow - that should possibly have been known by someone - I'd never heard of it before. OK - let's keep the space theme - but play a number guessing game. How many flights were there on the Shuttle programe (excluding the 5 atmospheric flights by Enterprise)? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Was STS135 not the last mission? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 133 complete flights if you exclude Challenger and Columbia's disasters. STS or Space transport System is the acronym used for the shuttle program with the numbers been for the flights in a sequential order. There were a few where a letter was added to the end for reflights or certain missions etc, I think there were a few STS-51 flights...... But in total there were 135 launches with two none landings... Not bad for the 30 years program, considering they were grounded for almost 5 years after the two disasters. Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 OK - Wazat and Cincol were both correct - 135 (including the 2 losses) - cincol is travelling - so it is first come first served between these 2 now for the next question. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 OK taking it away, destroyed in 2002, what was Buran famous for? Space related. Quote Link to comment
+Discombob Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Was he the designer of the Death Star? Otherwise, is it related to the MIR station? Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Related to Mir in a way... Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 That was the name of the Soviet shuttle wasn't it? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 What is Rosita Pedro's claim to fame? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 SA related and somewhat topical Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 First woman to open a Portuguese Resturant in South Africa ? Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 "Portugese" is correct - she was very young however - too young to open a restaurant. Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Another clue - think of the floods in the Kruger Nationl Park and associated areas. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Is she not the baby that was born in the tree during the floods in Moz a few years back? And rescued by helicopter along with her mother? Edited January 20, 2012 by Wazat Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Is she not the baby that was born in the tree during the floods in Moz a few years back? And rescued by helicopter along with her mother? Bingo - you're it Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 What did Steven Sasson invent. clue, in the news lately.... Quote Link to comment
+geocacher_coza Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 What did Steven Sasson invent. clue, in the news lately.... Just watch this on Sky news last night! He invented the first digital camera while working for Kodak. Quote Link to comment
+Wazat Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Had to be easy that one... Go for it geocacher coza... Quote Link to comment
+geocacher_coza Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was built between 1973 and 1974, is a deep-sea oil drillship. What makes this drillship famous and diffirent from the rest of drillshipS built and operated? Quote Link to comment
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