On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:41:04 -0700, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:19:54 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:

"BUFDRVR" wrote:

It'll be like Christmas in (insert month of first operational
re-engined BUFF arriving here). The proposal will also give us an
upgraded avionics, which will be worth as much to the average
crewdog as the engines themselves.

Consider it a ten year life extension, in 2030.

At the rate they're going, you could be frozen for a thousand years,
wake up, and the only thing that you'll recognize will be made by
Boeing...

"Yeah, we kept upgrading them. The 2045 AD mods made them sentient, and
we had to keep them up to spec or they'd get cranky..."


The thing that amzes me is a couple guys designed it in a hotel room
over a weekend. (Obviously they didn't do all the detail work but
still)

All aircraft and aircraft systems begin as napkin drawings.



They built a model to go with it that weekend too. Hardly a napkin
and I doubt many (any actually) manufactures use napkin drawings for
their presentation to the brass.