Pool Party Report -- A new record!

But, but ...

You missed Margie taking her shirt off at my forum on Wednesday {:^(


Jim







We had a wonderful week at OSH -- watch for the write-up shortly...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

You missed Margie taking her shirt off at my forum on Wednesday {:^(

I know -- and I feel terrible.

I don't know how it happened, but we had plans to make your forum, we
talked about it -- we even mentioned it to others as a Must See event
-- but when the time came we completely spaced it out!

All of the sudden it was like "Hey, what time is Jim's forum again?"
and it was, like, 1 PM!

Since it started at 10 AM, we just slapped ourselves on the forehead
and cursed our misfortune. It won't happen again.

So what did you name "Best of Show" this year?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Software went to DUATS for their 2007 complete rewrite of the (free) Golden
Eagle GUI and DaVinci Software for their complete redesign that is given
(free) to Kidventure for the kids to design real working aircraft.

Hardware went to Clarity Aloft for their no-earcup in-ear headset that
straps on BEHIND the head rather than over it, Zaon for their
transponder-based collision avoidance box, and Mutt Muffs for their doggie
hearing protector.

Kitplanes column in the December issue due to press by the 10th of next
month.

BTW, I found that "coin" that Conic Corporation minted to commemorate the
work we did on the real-time video transmitter on the Lunar Rover of Apollo
15. I'll send it to you next week. That was a real interesting job ...
you try and figure out how to keep a microwave dish bolted to a jalopy
bouncing around and over the hills and rills of the Moon and still pointed
within one degree of boresight on a targer a quarter of a million miles
away.

Jim




--
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in
a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, with chocolate in one hand and wine in
the other, loudly proclaiming 'WOO HOO What a Ride!'"
--Unknown



So what did you name "Best of Show" this year?

BTW, I found that "coin" that Conic Corporation minted to commemorate the
work we did on the real-time video transmitter on the Lunar Rover of Apollo
15. I'll send it to you next week. That was a real interesting job ...
you try and figure out how to keep a microwave dish bolted to a jalopy
bouncing around and over the hills and rills of the Moon and still pointed
within one degree of boresight on a targer a quarter of a million miles
away.

Cool! I'll look forward to it.

So, how did you keep the danged thing aimed so accurately?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"RST Engineering" wrote

That was a real interesting job ...
you try and figure out how to keep a microwave dish bolted to a jalopy
bouncing around and over the hills and rills of the Moon and still pointed
within one degree of boresight on a targer a quarter of a million miles
away.

WOW, REALLY!

The little I remember is seeing the rover bucking around like a ride at a
Texas bar, or like the cartoonish heavy metal landing with severe (with the
nose banging up and down on the runway) pilot induced oscillation.

That would be an interesting problem. Tell us a little about it when you
get the chance.
--
Jim in NC

That was a real interesting job ...
you try and figure out how to keep a microwave dish bolted to a jalopy
bouncing around and over the hills and rills of the Moon and still
pointed within one degree of boresight on a targer a quarter of a million
miles away.

WOW, REALLY!

The little I remember is seeing the rover bucking around like a ride at a
Texas bar,

I prefer the analogy of a double-jointed hooker on dollar night, but you got
the right idea {;-)

That would be an interesting problem. Tell us a little about it when you
get the chance.


Pure optics. A small telescope bolted onto the dish focused on Earth. Put
the target in the middle and push the button marked "track". Nothing else
remotely that bright (*) to track on, so the servos that were connected to
the dish simply kept the target in the center of the screen.

(*) The only caveat is that you had to do it with the sun WELL out of the
line of fire.

Jim