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  1. K

    FAA actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities and psychiatric problems

    I have to disagree with your first point--at least in my experience. Everybody had loaded weapons at all times where I was at. Some years later I went back as a contractor and they'd mercifully done away with the clearing barrels at the mess halls.
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    FAA actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities and psychiatric problems

    This is off topic, but when I was in Iraq everyone had to clear their weapon in that barrel before getting in the mess hall. Someone was always popping a round which, I was told, was an automatic Article 15. It always struck me that it would be much safer to have the troops just keep their...
  3. K

    Seabee and the Paradigm Plane

    For a spot welded structure, that thing sure has a lot of rivet holes.
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    Had a Scare Today!

    A possibly apocryphal story, but the old timers told the story of the CH-47 crew chief who filled a panel with nuts and bolts before a flight. During the flight, he runs around in a panic screaming into his mic and opens the panel and all the crap falls to the floor. Which causes all the...
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    The Last 747 Has Rolled off the Production Line.

    Gotcha beat: I once got on a C-17 that was configured for passengers as the ONLY pax. The Air Force kid looked at me, looked around that big old empty airplane, and said, "Well, I guess you can sit wherever you want." That still makes me laugh.
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    Franklin Sport 4 engine

    Tom, you have once again lost me. Having no google in 1971, I could have gone to the library and looked at pictures of a new $4,200 IO-360 and a new $4,200 Oldsmobile and they would absolutely be equivalent in dollar terms. If you are trying to say that because an airplane engine is so much...
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    Franklin Sport 4 engine

    No idea where you're going with the shoe thing--I was just trying to make the point that if an airplane engine cost the same as a decent car in 1971, it's likely going to be roughly the same in 2022 since there's been no huge technological breakthroughs that would make them much cheaper. The...
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    Franklin Sport 4 engine

    You could buy a pretty nice car for that in 1971. I assume the cost for that engine, today, is also about the price of a pretty nice car. I once heard a guy say that the price of a nice London suit has been about an ounce of gold for the last couple of centuries or so.
  9. K

    Tubular boom from sheet?

    I could be wrong, but it seems like I've seen pictures of Rotorway tailboom construction which appeared to be a flat sheet pulled into a tube with a bunch of ratchet straps and riveted.
  10. K

    Could I do this aviation job?

    Can you give us the link to that posting? That appears to be about a million dollar a year job and, having never seen anything like that, I'd just like to gaze at it in awe.
  11. K

    Crashes in the News - Thread

    Many years ago I watched an airplane fold up the nose gear while landing on a grass strip. It stopped in an astonishingly short distance after it was upside down.
  12. K

    Folding wings without disconnecting controls?

    The Europa had a pretty clever control setup, though it is a removable wing instead of a folding wing. I can't seem to locate a decent picture at the moment.
  13. K

    Wind mills

    Wind power would be good for pumping water to a Tom Sauk-type power generation operation, which was a reservoir on top of a mountain that water was pumped to during the cheap electricity times of day and generating power via hydroelectric at high demand times. The water becomes the battery...
  14. K

    Canard birds

    I'm thinking a rudder forward of the CG causes problems.
  15. K

    Wind mills

    I read that story. Apparently when solar roads are driven on they get dirty and quit making electricity, and they also break and quit making electricity. It's just the damnedest thing. On the upside, it only cost the taxpayers a few million bucks to discover these fundamental flaws that no...
  16. K

    Wind mills

    This is amusing: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-wind-power-could-contribute-warming-climate
  17. K

    Rutan Quickie / Q200, Q1, Q2

    Gotcha, thanks.
  18. K

    Rutan Quickie / Q200, Q1, Q2

    You lost me, there. There's no elevator on the tail, so if you move the engine forward--and get the CG right--what redesign would be needed?
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    Reverse tricycle gear

    On the plus side, when it's not ground looping it would have a very short turning radius.
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    Request for Information - Winton "Jackaroo"

    Caption for that first pic: "Whatever you do, do NOT stretch your legs."
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