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Mail call

I've dropped you an email. Worm^TT(talk) 12:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Naval Battle of Casablanca

Hi Thewellman. I know that U-173 sunk one transport while U-130 sunk three. The phrasing is a little strange. Apparently the "Final actions" section details the fate of ships first mentioned in the previous section, and I didn't pick up on that. I figured the sentence right after the one about U-130's attack should only deal with the ships hit by U-130, not those hit earlier by U-173. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 00:35, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Leachate article

I got this note on my talk page by Velella and I would equally like to invite you to take a look here: "I don't know whether your experience extends to landfill leachate, but if it does I would welcome an independent view on a recent flurry of edits at Leachate and also on the talk page there." EvM-Susana (talk) 21:10, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Maine VP-8 accident

Hi, I have tried several times to correct the write up on this accident. I was the safety officer at VP-30 (P-3 RAG) at the time of this accident and we received a through brief on it. Here is the correct sequence of events. During climb out the #1 engine separated from the the aircraft (passing up and over the wing). The Navy claims, (disputed by Lockheed) that this was due to a "whirl mode" event previously seen in several L-188 (the civilian ancestor to the P-3) accidents. This weakened the wing structure causing the piece outboard of that location to fold up and and in, thus separating. This piece struck the port horizontal stabilizer, which sheared off. The aircraft due to aerodynamic force pitched nose down, then violently nose up with such force that the 3 remaining engines were flung down off the aircraft. Without the weight of engine #3 and #4 to counteract the lift force of the wing, that starboard wing broke off at the wing root. The body of the aircraft (with the inboard port wing section and starboard horizontal and vertical tail sections rolled inverted and impacted the ground, killing everyone. This is consistent with the reference provided in your text which is why I haven't added anything. Neal P. Hesser Aeronautical Engineer, P-3 Instructor Pilot, USN LCDR Ret.

• I remember the L-188 Electra incidents you describe from news reports at the time and from subsequent active duty with naval aviation units. Although I left active duty before you did, I was under the impression the Navy had concluded (both through prototype acceptance and subsequent service experience) the L-188 whirl mode failures had been satisfactorily addressed by structural improvements incorporated into the P-3 design. The event sequence appears to be: wing-tank over-pressurization -> #1 engine separation -> wing failure. Do you recall the way accident reports were prepared to deflect blame away from procedural errors which might damage future career opportunities for the (surviving) personnel involved? Can you provide a reference citation for your objection to fuel tank over-pressurization as a contributing cause of wing weakness allowing the engine separation and subsequent wing failure you describe? Thewellman (talk) 17:43, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

I have copied the above discussion to the 1978 Maine P-3 Orion crash talk page for easier access by interested parties. Thewellman (talk) 18:17, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:

• A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:

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  Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)

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Editor of the Week [25 June 2016]

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User:Worm That Turned submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Thewellman to be Editor of the Week for his large body of article work. His varied interest has led to participation in Projects about transportation, firearms, rivers, water and many more. He's generally friendly and helpful where I've seen his work, to the extent that I was looking at nominating him to be an admin just last year.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 15:27, 25 June 2016 (UTC)