peter hudson
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Joan Didian once wrote (taken out of context)
So back (1979) then it was Santos Dumont's Demoiselle (and the man himself), the Aeronca C2, any hang glider, the (new) Lazair, and the local gliderport's Blanik.
I think I'm still that guy, but wanting to add the things modern composites bring to the table in something I design. I don't think I've lost grip of (or been threatened by) that passion those early favorites gave me.
I figure most of us have been around long enough to fit those inspirations into this classics forum. Anyway food for thought, have you lost your way, evolved, or still love your top 5 from your youth? What were they?
And yes, I know this is outside my usual approach of only trying to add technical content. I might be a little buzzed.
"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be; one of them, a seventeen-year-old, presents little threat,..."
I was just thinking about the planes I was most inspired by as a seventeen year old and thought ..."have I lost touch with that part of me? did I present a threat to today's me?"So back (1979) then it was Santos Dumont's Demoiselle (and the man himself), the Aeronca C2, any hang glider, the (new) Lazair, and the local gliderport's Blanik.
I think I'm still that guy, but wanting to add the things modern composites bring to the table in something I design. I don't think I've lost grip of (or been threatened by) that passion those early favorites gave me.
I figure most of us have been around long enough to fit those inspirations into this classics forum. Anyway food for thought, have you lost your way, evolved, or still love your top 5 from your youth? What were they?
And yes, I know this is outside my usual approach of only trying to add technical content. I might be a little buzzed.
