On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:06:15 -0600, "VideoGuy" gkasten at brick dot
net wrote:


"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
. ..
But I am burned out on telling people what an aileron is and how it
works. I've done that a lot in my life. Maybe the old coots like me
should forever leave this ng and let you people who don't fly and
don't build have it. Then you won't be insulted when we cringe when a
mature adult askes a question that we first answered in the 1950's.

BWB

Bob,

Maybe you wouldn't be so tired of the same old questions if you if you
viewed them as questions from NEW people eager to learn, regardless of their
"status". For whatever reasons, ( I suspect mostly monetary) many people
have needed to defer realization of a dream. We don't ask for your pity.

As far as leaving the newsgroup goes... Well, I guess if your attitude has
deteriorated to the point that you feel you have nothing worth adding, then
maybe you have the right idea.

I just did for about a year. The morons wore me down as they will
again.

Personally, I'd hate to think that anyone
who has as much experience in aviation as you would ever be at a point where
they would have nothing worth adding.

Oh, it's not that, it's that the boneheads wear you down. If someone
is legitimate and has a real question, I don't mind chiming in. It's
just that there is little of that here. You might have caught my post
on how to paint that fabric somewhere today. That guy was legitimate.
If that were what this ng was mostly about many of those with vast
experience who left long ago would still be here because they too
might pick up a simple technique to help them.

The trouble is, you have to wade through a vast sea of crap. It
reminds me of a million square mile ocean that is only 3 inches deep.
When you find a cavity that is a foot deep, you think you've hit pay
dirt.

I only post here nowadays for my own entertainment, not to learn
anything. The transfer of knowledge has always been mostly one way
for me. And, that's too bad too because there are people who are
really interested and who really are worthy of helping. You, might be
one of them. It's just that the assholes get in the way of that.

I had an ATP in my 30's and seven flight instructor ratings. Now I
have about 10,000 hours in balloons, helicopters, gliders,
ultralights, hang gliders, airplanes and gyros, plus a Ph.D. in
physics. When some anonymous coward insults me as I try to post here
and convey some meaning to a sea of mediocrity, it just gets to the
point that it ain't worth it.

I burned out on this ng long ago and I'll leave again, soon. Probably
tomorrow. I'm just stuck inside today because it's too cold to go
outside and fly anything that's fun. I wanted to fly my new electric
hummingbird helicopter today but it's just too damn cold to go to the
park. So, all of you had to put up with me. Ha Ha

I liked that guy Jay's website. That was fun to see. I sent him a
bunch of the airplanes I've been fortunate enough to fly in my life.
There is one picture I really like of my Jantar 15 meter sailplane. I
forgot to send him one of my Lark while I was on a pressure breath
system at 30,000 feet. I'll try and find that baby and get it to him.
I held a camera in front of me in the cockpit. The insides of the
canopy were frozen over with moisture from my breath. I was flying on
an electric gyro with a special clearance into class A airspace that
day. I was still going up at 2000 feet per minute in wave lift when I
had to abort because the damn wind would freeze over as fast as I
could clear it with the back of my glove (on my hand). Damn, I wish I
could find that one.



BWB




But obviously, you would have to be
the judge on that.

Gary (still waiting- but sneaking up on the goal) Kasten