Behave like the aspie sterotype.

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The entrance fee to the New Orleans Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum is $18 and it is located adjacent to Jackson Square, right behind the Mississippi River.

Hey! Who wants to watch 'On The Buses' with me?

To DoubleFeed: Planes of Fame Valle, AZ.

Hey, what do you think of the DO 335?

acts aspie: sits in apparent gloom while counting from one to a thousand and relating each number to some object (like: P-51), and stares eerily offputting NTs all around

holy Ned, DoubleFeed,

A Merlin from a 51! I am a blood relative of the 51. My maternal grandmother did final cockpit wiring on the D models from the Inglewood plant. she was small and smart. She stayed with North American Aviation well after WW II - she retired well into the 60s. indeed, she took us (family) to see a full scale (1/2 of it right down the longitudinal CL) mickup of the B - 70 which was nearly as fast as the SR -71 and 185' long, and would've been faster except for engines not being up to the job.

By the way, the L/D ratio of the B - 70 is the best of any supersonic winged vehicle, still, and due to its giving up conventional lift generation at high speeds. It literally surfed its own shock wave!

'Hope the museum can tell you more about the X 250 than they did me!

Glad to know you, DF!

I intend to watch Four Minutes with my Enhanced Trivia Track feature, so I can bore everyone with even more Roger Bannister info.

"There are green Routemasters, as well. Do you want to see one"? (holding up a green replica).

Intolerant NT. "Get away from me, you fat, stinky Cockney"!

Me. "Oh, I've thought that you were one of my WrongPlanet pallies...and I really should change". (Heads off to the washroom with secret bag).

DoubleFeed:

too bad about the OV 10s! they were really neet aircraft.

Let me know if the museum knows anything on the X 250.

NAA built the number one and two fastest winge manned vehicles: shuttle orbiter (the part of the system that works - assuming some other part does not hurt it), and the X 15 respectively.

Did you know that there are only three machines? Inclined Plane, Lever and Wheel. Everything else is just a variation.

The Master Rod in a radial engine is always the last to be removed, and the first to be reinstalled.

The world's first submarine was the Turtle, and it was used for observation in the American Revolution.

The world's first canard configuration was the Wright Flyer 1903. It was also the world's first pusher configuration.

The human body can generally absorb about 30 grams of protein at one time. Any excess is excreted.


...Mind melding with the bulldozer...

Knew all but the protein, bio sort of creeps me out.

However, actually the wright's gliders were canard too. . . but 1903 first powered canard.

Aren't aircraft great?

Do you have a fave rotary wing? Mine is Aerospatial Dauphin S2. Fast, smooth, safe.

I have dreamed of a fast and traditional single engine (would hafta be tri gear) retractable all metal monoplane for two persons in a hurry based on the P&W 4360. Go real fast, make a lot of noise, piss off envirowhackos!

I know about biology only what I need to add the muscle I need. I've been very skinny all my life. I finally decided to get off my butt and get on a program, and I did it in typical aspie fashion: read everything.
I like the AH-56 Cherokee. I also really like the VS300 first model.
Did you calculate weight and balance on the Nutbag-1?

Not on Nutbag-1,

However, when in college (aero major) I had a series of AC including my 400 series tandem wings which were a tad beyond Rutan's efforts (however - he actually built his!), and a very nice NA 214 design. I did W&B on these as well as stall at various conditions and excess power calcs.

Would have been nice aircraft.

I'd take an Apache!
Always had a soft spot in my heart for the Hughes 500 and variants too.

I'd like to see them. All of them. Including all dimensions, material and type of fasteners. Don't forget to callout the major stresspoints, as well as the center of gravity and center of lift. Include wiring diagrams, with AWG sizes, voltages, amperages, resistances, wattages and capacitances called out. List R&R only items, and list those which are field repairable. List all tolerances.
No big deal. You should whip all that out in 5 minutes.

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