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Old 9th Jan 2020, 11:00 pm   #28
fpmacko
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
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Default Re: Anti aircraft proximity fuzes

Ok, I'm back.

I've uploaded the VT fuze video to my google drive and shared it out. Please let me know if you have any problems playing it. It's kinda big at 1.4 GByte and it appears google are doing some format conversion to reduce its size at the moment so it might not be available immediately. It's a .MOV video reproduction of a silent color film produced by APL near the end of the war. The production values weren't the greatest. (Hey, don'tcha know there's a war on??) The reproduction house that generated the video laid down an audio track of film projector noise just like the old silent movies. The dialog is all done via text and graphics inserted before each scene.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xP...qNHpBLjuu-F6Cu

BTW, this film was produced at APL's only facility at that time, which was a used car dealership in Silver Spring, Maryland. Note the cinder block basement walls in some of the scenes. The lab move to a new research campus in Columbia, Maryland in the early 1950s and we now have over 30 buildings and 7,000 staff. Quite a change from the used car dealership.

I hope you enjoy this. Please let me know if there's anything else you're curious about regarding the VT fuze. I can probably find a lot of releasable documentation on our internal network. Like this stuff...

https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/image.../1_VT-Fuze.jpg

https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techd...-01-Wagner.pdf

https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techd...-01-VTfuze.pdf

best regards,

Frank Mackowick / WA3NHK
Principal Professional Staff
JHU/APL (semi-retired)
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