To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Lindholme Gear

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lindholme Gear (also known as Air Sea Rescue Apparatus Mk 4) was a British air-dropped rescue equipment designed during the Second World War to aid survivors in the water and was still in use in the 21st century.[1][2]

Design and development

The Lindholme Gear was developed at RAF Lindholme by Group Captain Waring during the 1940s to provide a simpler rescue system than the air-dropped lifeboats then in use.[3] The Lindholme Gear is five cylinder-shaped containers joined together by lengths of floating rope.[1] The centre container would house a nine-man inflatable dinghy with the other containers housing survival equipment such as emergency rations and clothing.[1] The containers were discarded containers from the tail-units of 500lb and 250lb bombs.[4]

Operation

The Gear would be carried in the weapons bay of the aircraft and dropped in a long line up-wind of the survivors. The Dinghy would inflate on impact and then drift towards the survivors. The survivors could then use the dinghy, haul in the containers of equipment, and await rescue.[1]

The Lindholme Gear was originally designed to be carried by Handley Page Hampden aircraft[5] but was mainly carried by Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft like the Vickers Warwick and later the Avro Lancaster, Avro Shackleton and Hawker Siddeley Nimrod. The Gear was also used by the Royal Canadian Air Force[2] and the South African Air Force Avro Shackleton.[6] Lindholme gear was also carried in the bomb bay by the Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft Lockheed P-3B & P-3C Orions, consisting of two 10-man liferafts and two stores containers; this equipment was later replaced by ASRK (Air Sea Rescue Kits).[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Wet Work". Flight International: 617. 22 October 1954.
  2. ^ a b "Canadian Air Men Cheat Davey Jones" (PDF). The Millburn & Short Hills Item: 14. 21 May 1943.
  3. ^ Pitchfork, Graham (October 2006). "Training and Survival Aids". The Royal Air Force Historical Survey (40): 62–63. ISSN 1361-4231.
  4. ^ Daniels, Stephen Brewster (1994). Rescue from the skies : the story of the airborne lifeboats. London: H.M.S.O. p. 5. ISBN 0-11-772761X.
  5. ^ "Early history and formation of the Air/Sea Rescue Service, 1919 to 1941". Air/Sea Rescue. Whitehall, London: Air Ministry. 1952. p. 8.
  6. ^ AVRO Shackleton. Crowood Aviation Series. 2002. p. 114.
This page was last edited on 26 March 2024, at 08:04
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy