USS OREGON BB-3 on parade on the waters of the Tualatin Commons, Tualatin Oregon
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The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was founded in 1895 in New York City and is the oldest movie production company in the United States. It's heyday was the era of silent film.The company was started by nickelodeon producer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film.
See 1903 Navy days film of USS Oregon sailing by.
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We will be adding movie clips from club events and items of modeling interest.
Very rare footage!
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This film is over 100 years old!
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Who is that looking at,,, is that USS Oregon? Yes It's Eric Adams of Nautical Society of Oregon Model Shipwrights
Those are V 12 Packards, Baby!
The restored Higgins PT 658, one of the last PT's left!
On display at the 2005 Antique Wooden Boat Show on Hayden Island, Portland Oregon
1/96 scale, 1/8"=1 ft 44" long, R/C with smoker!
This model of a GM 327 engine is demonstrated at the 2005 Model engineering show in Portland, Oregon, That runs!
The show is held in Sept at the Armory on NW 33rd, check back and we will announce the dates!
If you like small motors, steam and gas, you need to attend the
“Model Engineering Show”
“Flash” animation is a product of Macro media that has become the dominant animation platform of the computer world. “Flash” can compress a large file into a small file for quick downloads. The movie clips offered here are all in ,”Flash” for fun and reference. Most computers have a flash player already on board, (such as XP) If you can’t play any of these movies or don’t see anything moving on the page, simple download a player free. It’s easy and guaranteed clean from Macromedia.
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Tom's Tug
Tom Winslow’s fantastic tug pushing a new barge he was trying out for the first time that day in Oct 2005.
Location is the club haunt, the Tualatin Commons, Tualatin, Oregon
Harbor horns added!
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USS Oregon is eased out of port by Noel Bickham's cute little tug
Harbor horns added!
Location is the club haunt, the Tualatin Commons, Tualatin, Oregon
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That's a Rap!
USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51 is the first ship in the DDG series all named for famous American servicemen. Arleigh Burke was the commodore of DesRon 23 “The Little Beavers” in the South Pacific during WWII. He later served as CNO during the Kennedy admin.
The model is scratch built – aircraft plywood frames and siding, fiber glass covered. Super structure is aircraft ply and styrene. Molded parts are from Scale Shipyard. The ship is powered by 2 12V Dumas direct drive motors with two Vantec speed controllers. The forward vertical launch bay contains a firing box for two micro rockets
"Missile Away"
By John Metschen
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USS Oregon by your Web Master,Neal
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The following is a slide show of the awesome power of the keel busting, over the horizon, MK 48 torpedo. It is brought to you in “flash”, with a file size of 799 kb.
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The Awesome Power of the Mk 48 Torpedo!
