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New space travel by
Bob Fry
http://tinyurl.com/dayj8
NewScientist.com
Take a leap into hyperspace
* 05 January 2006
* From New Scientist Print Edition
* Haiko Lietz
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January 26th 06 04:58 PM
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I think we've made it through 2008... by
Bob Fry
....without any noobs reposting that stupid Night Before Christmas
rhyme about Santa. A good start for 2009.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
~ Andre Gide
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Russian abandoned aircraft site by
Bob Fry
"This engineering was in a museum Aircraft technicians in Moscow
earlier. But when a museum have closed, engineering have put on a
separate platform open-air and it became nobody necessary."
Nevermind the broken English. Photos of what's apparently a place near
Moscow for abandoned Soviet...
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"The World's First Jet Powered Beer Cooler" by
Bob Fry
In New Zealand there are two things that are the essence of being a
'good Kiwi bloke'. These are of course playing rugby and having a
shed....
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/
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....so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social
change will be vastly more difficult, if not...
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You never knew marshalling aircraft... by
Bob Fry
.....could be so entertaining.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7FI_S0_NE
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to
God.
~ Lenny Bruce
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How to make a spinner by
Bob Fry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwrk0SwDJhI&feature=related
Quite interesting video showing how a spinner is made on a lathe.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
~ Confucius
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"From the Earth to the Moon" DVD set by
Bob Fry
Maybe this is old stuff for most on this newsgroup, but I just
discovered this.
I rarely if ever hawk a particular product on Usenet, but this older
DVD set (1998) is fantastic. My brother-in-law gave it to me for
Christmas....thinking it was some boring collection of fuzzy
black-and-white 1960s...
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September 19th 07 03:12 AM
by Tater
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Great Alaskan bush flying pictures by
Bob Fry
A friend sent this website url; great pictures of Alaskan bush
flying. However the pix are all on a very long single page so you'll
need broadband and patience.
http://shaunlunt.typepad.com/shootings/
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Oil and the Future by
Bob Fry
Nice series in the Chicago Trib. Sure, it's written as doom-n'-gloom
entertainment rather than dry facts and analysis, but they gotta sell
papers. Does make one wonder about our own (general aviation) future.
Note: As a courtesy to r.a.p., and against all tradition, followups
have been...
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PIREP: Casio Pathfinder PAW1200 by
Bob Fry
This is a report on the Casio Pathfinder PAW1200 and its application
in the cockpit of a small aircraft.
The PAW1200 has it all: R/C time reception from all atomic clock
signals (US, Japan, Germany, and Britain), solar powered, barometer,
altimeter, thermometer, compass, alarms, stopwatch,...
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May 24th 06 09:57 PM
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Iowa: more than corn fields by
Bob Fry
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:40 PM
Subject: On a Rock in Iowa
Check this out !!!!!
As you can see corn and beans aren't the only things Iowa has.....This
huge rock is located on Highway 25 .There is a huge gravel-rock pit
here and the kids used to use if for obscenities, etc but since it...
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November 27th 03 08:06 PM
by Bob Fry
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prop rpm question by
Bob Fry
At 1000 rpm or so, my airplane will taxi and get up to, what, 15-20
kts? But at double the rpm it will fly at 80-90 kts, though it would
take a long time to take off. Surely double the rpm produces more
than double the propellor thrust...or does it? Anyway, it seems very
nonlinear, that is,...
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Review of One Six Right DVD by
Bob Fry
First impressions after viewing the main picture and extra features.
It's quite professionally done, but ultimately it's not a flying or
aviation DVD, it's the history of Van Nuys Airport. Thus, unless
you're familiar with the airport--I'm not--it can be a little boring.
I found myself hitting...
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Engine doesn't make minimum static rpm by
Bob Fry
Aircoupe Alon A2 with C90 engine with two props, one 48" pitch and the
other 52". It doesn't make the static runup RPM minimums with either
one, for instance the 48" prop should be 2225 to 2325 rpm, I averaged
out to 2162 rpm. Likewise the 52" prop falls short 100 rpm or more.
Three years ago...
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EGT gage oddity; stuck valve, other?? by
Bob Fry
Folks, I'm hoping you can help me diagnose an odd EGT gage behavior.
Background: 1965 Aircoupe with Continental C90-16F engine (has vacuum
pump). Plane based in N. California so freezing temps not a factor
(pre-heat not needed nor used). Has both a CHT and EGT on different
cylinders, with the...
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Gotta love the French sense of humor by
Bob Fry
PARIS - Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag
in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs,
police said Saturday....
French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no
chance of their going off, since no detonators were connected to...
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Decalin instead of TCP? by
Bob Fry
With the demise of 80/87 avgas, I bought a gallon of TCP and will
start adding that to the 100LL that I must now buy.
However, scouting around the internet I found something that claims to
be similar in function but safer: decalin. Here's a blurb from
Aircraft Spruce. My questions are, has...
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AIRNAV not publishing fuel prices... by
Bob Fry
"Geoffrey Barnes" writes:
You mean the Mike Busch who just started writing a montly column for AvWeb?
He's not "formerly" anything there. He had a very close call with a nasty
bout of cancer, and was focused on beating that for a while. But now he's
cancer free and...
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