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The new addition this year: Chocolate-covered bacon. Mmmmm...
And congressman Jones of "Freedom Fries" fame did eventually come to his senses and Congress no longer has to eat "Freedom Toast", etc. I think it was because he was getting pressure to institute "Freedom Curves" and "Freedom Kissing". a wrote: On Oct 20, 8:33?pm, brian whatcott wrote: Dave Doe wrote: ... There are places in the US where one would not say pitot in mixed company because you may be escorted out the door with a pitchfork. Been there, don't want to go back. Why's that? Where's that? What does it mean "down there"? I could only think of the places that think of the fried articles as Freedom Fries Brian W As a way off topic response, I live in North Carolina, home of "I bet I can deep fry that". For proof, our State Fair is going on now, and there are deep fried Coca Cola soaked breads, pickles, candy bars, . . . It might have been here that chicken fried steak was invented: start with a great steak, coat it with bread crumbs, and fry until well past well done. The airspace above the Fair should be restricted -- it may be CAVU but the vapors on your windscreen will make it actual IMC in the cockpit. Of course, your engine will run rich, ingesting a near explosive mixture of air and grease vapor. And drag goes down too -- but be careful exiting your low winged airplane, the traction you expect will not be the grease does that. Close by are some of the better heart hospitals in the country. Coincidence? I think not. Now, back to the regularly scheduled program. -- Don Poitras |
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On Oct 21, 7:06*am, (Don Poitras) wrote:
The new addition this year: Chocolate-covered bacon. Mmmmm... And congressman Jones of "Freedom Fries" fame did eventually come to his senses and Congress no longer has to eat "Freedom Toast", etc. I think it was because he was getting pressure to institute "Freedom Curves" and "Freedom Kissing". a wrote: On Oct 20, 8:33?pm, brian whatcott wrote: Dave Doe wrote: ... There are places in the US where one would not say pitot in mixed company because you may be escorted out the door with a pitchfork. Been there, don't want to go back. Why's that? Where's that? What does it mean "down there"? I could only think of the places that think of the fried articles as Freedom Fries Brian W As a way off topic response, I live in North Carolina, home of "I bet I can deep fry that". For proof, our State Fair is going on now, and there are deep fried Coca Cola soaked breads, pickles, candy bars, . . . * It might have been here that chicken fried steak was invented: start with a great steak, coat it with bread crumbs, and fry until well past well done. The airspace above the Fair should be restricted -- it may be CAVU but the vapors on your windscreen will make it actual IMC in the cockpit. Of course, your engine will run rich, ingesting *a near explosive mixture of air and grease vapor. And drag goes down too -- but be careful exiting your low winged airplane, the traction you expect will not be the grease does that. Close by are some of the better heart hospitals in the country. Coincidence? I think not. Now, back to the regularly scheduled program. -- Don Poitras Should the thread continue on this path, it will have to cross post to cardiac or food groups. I'll have to look for the chocolate covered deep fried bacon. Have you noticed the slicked down look and shiny hair most people have as they return to their cars (which have been under and over coated with rust proofing if they were parked downwind in the fair (downwind makes this aviation related)). (note the nested (()) -- programming habits die hard. Do people still use French curves? Or even vellum? It's difficult enough even buying graph paper these days. |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:09:57 -0700 (PDT), a wrote in
: ... (note the nested (()) -- programming habits die hard. Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. ( Marty -- Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.* See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups. |
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On Oct 21, 9:45*am, "Martin X. Moleski, SJ"
wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:09:57 -0700 (PDT), a wrote in : ... (note the nested (()) -- programming habits die hard. Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. *( * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Marty -- Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk..* Seehttp://www.big-8.orgfor info on how to add or remove newsgroups. Glad you saw it -- you're validated as a programmer!!! |
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On 2009-10-21, Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. ( But under normal circumstances, the compiler picks it up and stops with a compile error. On the other hand, writing "=" where you actually meant "==" can cause a complete new world of hurt with some compilers :-) |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:13:53 +0000 (UTC), Dylan Smith wrote in :
On 2009-10-21, Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote: Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. ( But under normal circumstances, the compiler picks it up and stops with a compile error. And a kindly compiler or engine suggests what might have gone wrong. The painful times are when it reports the NEXT error caused by the missing characters. ( On the other hand, writing "=" where you actually meant "==" can cause a complete new world of hurt with some compilers :-) BTDT, know what you mean. :-O Marty -- Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.* See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups. |
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"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:09:57 -0700 (PDT), a wrote in : ... (note the nested (()) -- programming habits die hard. Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. ( Your sentence ends with an unbalanced paren too, you know! -- Mike Ash Radio Free Earth Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:38:59 -0400, Mike Ash wrote in
: In article , "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:09:57 -0700 (PDT), a wrote in : ... (note the nested (()) -- programming habits die hard. Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence. I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon does to code. ( Your sentence ends with an unbalanced paren too, you know! DOH! Good eyes! :-P Marty -- Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.* See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups. |
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT), a wrote:
On Oct 18, 5:18*pm, Franklin "Franklin wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT), a wrote: On Oct 18, 2:24*pm, "vaughn" wrote: "a" wrote in message ... My hand stays on the mag switch throughout a mag check so I want to believe I won't forget to go back to both -- help us avoid making your mistake: do you remember what distracted you enough to leave it pointing to a single bank of plugs? I agree, no reason to take your hand off the switch, but things can still go wrong! *I also took off on one mag once. *I don't think I actually forgot to return the switch to "both", but just made a sloppy job of it and somehow ended up with the switch not quite in the detent. *I still kick myself for not aborting that takeoff. *It turned out to be a butt-puckering trip around the patch. *I never did make it alll the way up to pattern height. Now I visually verify the position of the switch before leaving the runup pad. Lesson learned! Vaughn That's interesting. My primary flight instructor must have been burned by something like that, because my training (which did not include getting rapped across the knuckles with a stick -- that was from grade school days) was to focus on the tach, go from both to left, note the drop, back to both, see the tach get back to 1900, go to right, note the drop, go to both, see the tach get back to 1900, and only then let go of the mag switch. He was the same guy who insisted controls like throttle and mixture should be pushed with the palm, pulled with curled fingers, and never grasped-- his point was that if can can only push or pull you are less apt to move something in the wrong direction. Some old habits are worth retaining. If he could have he would have replaced radio tuning knobs with paddles. Would you say he was compulsive? No but he had a feckin' moron for a student. Thanks so much for your insight. No problem, you need all the help you can get obviously. So far his moronic student had 3000 safe odd hours in a complex single, so his instruction worked. All while beating your meat and massaging your ego, quite a feat. You, on the other hand -- your remark is the QED of that -- clearly failed in social skills.. I agree to your social superiority, masturbation and ego stroking. You win. |
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