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Which Australian Battalion was the highest decorated of WW2?

 

What plane is this?













If you want a bigger pic tell me.

 

Lysander by the looks of it.

 

Indeed it is.

 

The answer is:

The 2/48th Battalion of the 9th Division.

Read more here! 2/48th Battalion: Australian War Memorial

 

Yes, your turn.

 

Ah, didn't realize this was the Quiz Thread.

O.K. here's a real puzzler because I don't know what it is either, other than it being a military bulb and fuse container.

The Olive Drab container measures 4 1/4" x 4." when closed and has what I take to be 2-00589-15 stencilled on it.

In side the pouch are at the top from left to right,

" 6 VOLT FOR NAMEPLATES MS25327-328"
there are 8 bulbs here, some very tiny with MS24515-685 as an identifying number.

In the top middle are two "ADS 15 AMP FUSE"

Top Right.

"28 VOLT FOR CAUTION WARN. LIGHTS"

Again there are 8 bulbs with MS25237-327 identifying number.

Bottom Left we have three bulbs,
"FLOOD MS25069 1495"

Bottom right we have 3 bulbs,
"UTILITY CAUTION & WARNING MS25231 313"

I have no idea from what era this item comes from and I suspect it is American, anyone any ideas?

 

Here's another picture.

 

I don't know what the kit is for, but I certainly have some of those lamps in my store, right now.

 

That's interesting. What aircraft do you stock them for? I'm presuming they are for aircraft, don't know why.

 

I went looking for parts numbers and kept coming up with aircraft parts suppliers. Doesn't mean the bulbs weren't used elsewhere of course.

 

Underwater ones..

They are just for instrument illumination and switchlights.

 

That will be because the manufacturer produces the item under a given number, the respective service then gives it it's own number, therefore the new number will fit into the existing stores recognition system, those lamps will have a different number to mine.

 

Cheers, Buster.

 

Sphinx eat your heart out

Hi Eggheads

Nice little item to keep you scratching your head.

Cheers
Keith.

ps. I know

 

Swap the red 'leading edge triangle with the green top triangle and hey presto!

Now if the image was monochrome, it would not be quite so easy to spot

 

Missing space

Hi Buster,

I think something was lost in the translation from English to Hibernian/Hibernian to English.

:doh:

Help
Keith

 

Okay perhaps I wasn't precise enough do as I said above and move the yellow piece right and down to form the hole.

(It's just I thought that bit was too obvious to state)

:drama:

 

Triangle

Hi Buster,

Maybe my posting was not clear enough !
The point of the puzzle is not to cure, which is very simple, you can just put everything back the way it was, but to fathom out how two triangles re-assembled with apparently the same pieces in the same original sized triangle and still appear to be the same size, but now having an extra square space.
I hope this clarifies it,
The point is where does the extra square come from!

Cheers
Keith

 

I know what Keith is asking but I still can't see where the hole comes from.

But consider this.

The area of the whole triangle is, in each case: (5 x 13)/2 = 32.5 squares.

However, in upper arrangement, the areas of the peices are:
Red triangle : (8 x 3)/2 = 12 squares
Green triangle: (5 x 2)/2 = 5 squares
Yellow shape: 5 + 2 = 7 squares.
Light Green shape: 5 + 3 = 8 squares.

But this only adds up to 12+5+7+8 = 32 squares

But in the lower arrangement, the extra hole takes the total area to 33 squares.

So the components of the upper arrangement are half a square less than the total,. but the components of the lower arrangement are half a square more.

I' m not sure why this is either. But probably the two conundrums are linked.