Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: What are these cables for?

["Greg Cotton" <gregc02@attglobal.net>]

You will even find such wires on crop spraying aircraft. On many of them 
there is a cable cutting knife edge in front of the windscreen and a cable 
attached from there to the top of the tail. It helps when you hit the wires at the 
end of the field. And at those speeds it sometimes actually works!

Greg

Date sent:      	Fri, 07 Sep 2001 11:32:49 -0400
From:           	"Michael B. Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>
Organization:   	University of Richmond
To:             	personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject:        	[PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: What are these cables for?
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> David Buchner wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.uk-muenchen.de/fotos/kriegsmarine/wien/u2auftauchen.html
> 
> Those are called -- by the British, anyway -- "jumping wires."
> European harbors frequently had nets to stop subs, and the
> jumping wires let them ride over the sub ... at least, in theory.
> 
> Attached to jumping wires are "preventer cables," which attach
> to the deck the after half of the jumping wire.  This is to 
> keep a broken jumping wire out of the screws.
> 
> See "Submarine Commander," By Ad, Ben Bryant, RN.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike