Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Nov 18 14:49:16 2004

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com> writes:

 Tom> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:27 -0500, Joe R. wrote: > Take a look at
>> this
>> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Fw%20%5bVTOD-L%5d%20Fw%20Picture%20from%201.jpg>

 Tom> Totally fake. Funny though, just not to this discerning crowd!
 Tom> :-)

 Tom> That's all power control junk in the panel. The wheel is just
 Tom> silly.

That's not what Snope says -- the original photo is a submarine
trainer. That fits -- two wheels on a sub makes sense (up/down and
left/right).

             paul
Received on Thu Nov 18 2004 - 14:49:16 GMT

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