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Jay Honeck wrote: For you - maybe, but for someone who loves the building aspect, life is too short for *flying* because it means they spend less time *building*. That's just...wrong. ;-) It's a personality thing. My pal Doug has been working every night and weekend on the RV-10 and it's ready to fly after about a year and a half. He previously built an RV-6 (slow build, no pre-punch) in about 13 months. He tells me that he's doing the building so that he can have a new, cool, affordable airplane to fly, but I'm convinced he's hooked on the building process. In between airplanes, he can usually be found tearing out walls and reconfiguring his house. The good part about this is that my sweat equity in his airplanes gives me 1st shot at buying the plane if (I mean when) he decides to sell. He has sworn that he'll be keeping the RV-10 forever, but he said that about the RV-6 too. Someday it will be mine! Thank heaven for compulsive builders! For those interested, here's a site with the chronology of the build : http://www.rvator.com John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
So, 500 years ago, these guys would've been out pillaging nearby villages. 500 years ago "those guys" hibernated by the fire and drank constantly during the rare periods when they were awake. Summer was invasion time. George Patterson "Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got no clothes on - and are up to somethin'. |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:2tIie.5050$z_.3694@attbi_s71...
There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the last several hundred years) have all been in colder climates. I always figured it's because they had to stay busy to keep warm. I don't believe that is quite correct... It's not just colder climates, but it is climate change... It seems that people who live in places where the climate doesn't change throughout the year don't have the environmental incentive to come up with new solutions to problems... In tropical civilizations, they have nothing to compare it to, so satisfied with doing the same thing that they've always done... In frozen civilations, there's a lot of that too... They've found out what works to keep them from freezing themselves to death and they just keep doing it year after year... At one extreme, you have a group of people who have become complacent in their living conditions since it doesn't take as much effort to survive and at the other extreme, you have a group of people who spend a significant amount of their effort just surviving the environment and don't have time for other things... Of course, I don't have any hard proof of this -- it's just a gut feeling, I guess... I suspect that air-conditioning wasn't invented by someone who lives in a tropical climate, it was probably invented by someone who lived in a place that was too warm in the summer and he longed for the cooler days of winter... |
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I suspect that air-conditioning wasn't invented by someone who lives in a
tropical climate, it was probably invented by someone who lived in a place that was too warm in the summer and he longed for the cooler days of winter... Excellent, thought-provoking post. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Montblack wrote:
("Margy" wrote) Poor folks, I think building would be fun, but only if I had a working plane and time to build and fly. I guess retirement can't come soon enough! I tell you having the Navion down for 3 years almost killed me. Look where you ended up working ...a little something to help ease the pain :-) Montblack Hee, Hee, Hee. Yes, I'm having fun, but I have a hoard of docents who keep asking "When is the plane going to be finished?" Margy |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
Poor folks, I think building would be fun, but only if I had a working plane and time to build and fly. I guess retirement can't come soon enough! I tell you having the Navion down for 3 years almost killed me. I don't know how you did it. I trust you kept current in rental planes? I wish I had! I took an instructor to pick up the plane and do my BFR. I have to get checked out in a 172 for our trip to Au and I haven't flown one of those in 10 + years. I think I might hang out with instructors for a bit! Margy |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the last several hundred years) have all been in colder climates. It's a pretty well supported theory that the growth of human intelligence was fed by ice ages. Personally, I'd rather be dumb but warm than smart but freezing my ass off. -- Jim Fisher |
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Jim Fisher wrote:
It's a pretty well supported theory that the growth of human intelligence was fed by ice ages. Personally, I'd rather be dumb but warm than smart but freezing my ass off. Freezing my butt off seems pretty dumb to me. George Patterson "Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got no clothes on - and are up to somethin'. |
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In article , Jim Fisher wrote:
Personally, I'd rather be dumb but warm than smart but freezing my ass off. If you're smart you don't freeze your ass off, that's the beauty of it :-) -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Not me. I'd rather fly than build.
"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:11:07 GMT, "Jay Honeck" wrote in vhGie.3725$796.3332@attbi_s21:: He would have spent 3000 nights in an unheated hangar, by himself, and for what? For the sheer joy of accomplishment as a result of having constructed a useful machine with his bare hands. Life is just too short to use that kind of time. That's a subjective opinion. Flying is life. I firmly believe the bulk of aircraft home-builders are mechanics first, and aviators second. Certainly most of them spend more time in the hangar than in the air. |
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