Subject: Re: Dirk Pitt's means of escape
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Wendy Oh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:19:30 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again 
for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wendy Oh" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 8:40 PM
Subject: Dirk Pitt's means of escape

> G'Day Steve Bamford,
>
> 1. My name is George On, aka The Loggie.  I am a lurker & poster in ARC
> (from Australia).  This is a photo of a model I made in 2012.  I hope that
> you may find it suitable for ARC's 'Silly Week'.
>
> 2. In the Clive Cussler book 'Cyclops' the hero, Dirk Pitt, and three
> friends, piloted a blimp towards Cuba, but it was shot-down near a secret
> Russian base on a small island.  They salvaged some equipment and reached
> the island, but all four were captured, locked-up, and beaten-up by the
> baddies.  But Dirk managed to escape his cell and leave the island by 
> mating
> his salvaged outboard motor to an old bathtub he found.  Just as he ran 
> out
> of fuel, he was picked-up by a US Navy submarine.
>
> 3. For the heck of it, I built the bathtub/boat.  I used a 1/35-scale
> resin bathtub and added all of the elements from the book - 2 x fuel cans, 
> a
> rag stuffed into the drain-hole, a funnel fashioned from a piece of bent
> sheet-metal, and a plank of wood as a transom.  I scratch-built the 
> outboard
> motor from various bits of plastic, and a picture of a 4 horse-power
> outboard motor that I reduced to fit the bathtub.  The hardest part was 
> the
> propeller that I scratch-built from thin metal foil.
>
> 4. More to follow.
>
> 5. Many thanks for ARC.
>
>
> George Oh
> c/- [email-masked] (= H)
> & [email-masked] (= W)
> or (03) 9717 1789 (= H)
>
>
>