On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:18:49 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

Yo, Starfleet Inspector...

I STILL got yelled at, privately and in Excellent Grammar, properly
spelled (rather than spelt) for my laughter at Another's Expense, but
only because I failled to mention TAPES, which is where the load
actually goes, rather than fabric, and he's right, in a way, but so am
I and we both know he's just picking at an old, hard scab 'cause he
was wrong once before on a correction and I sent him a zzinger and he
had to admit he meant to say X instead of Y and thank you very much
and what a Swell Fellow I was for not doing so publicly and I found
the pre-packaged msg that sed 90% (mebbe more) of my mail is like that
(which is still true) but now that I'm sort of dying-off, I've been
making it sort of public/private because when you're feeling like S**t
and your best Physician is not quite as old as your best pair of
boots, it sort of changes your view of things and you become less of a
Kind and Gentle Man and become more of the mean sonofabitch type who
will light up a good cigar in front of a Bad painting because I know
the difference even if I haven't had my ticket punched by one of those
Ivy Leage schools (or any school at all, come to think of it...
although one was very nice about offering me something for saying nice
things about... I forget what... something they did... and 'ol Bucky
Brewster was already dead and they tend to like his dry blood-letting
as compared to my Riding into Town, reins in my teeth, shooting right
& left and actually HITTING something, unlike Bucky, who didn't (and
didn't believe I could until I showed him how).

But seriously, after paying all tht money for that insignificant piece
of paper to hang on their wall, you really owe it to them to find
someone else to Bless them on their Way. (And besides, I've already
got a D.Phil. and was sorta hoping for something more grandiose. )

Bob Hoover (No, I'm STILL the other one. And will always be.)


I'm one of the few people in the world with a tractor but no PhD.

I can see that you've made a mistake there.

If you have a PhD I'd normally defer to your wisdom but my mate who
has two PhD's is a bit insistent that I speaque up.

you are correct that the rib stitching just sees the local air
pressures and that the air pressures arent additive, the effect of
their combined moments in the spars is accumulatve as you mention.

where you come unstuque is that you have neglected the increased
airflow in the slipstream behind the prop. this area doesnt need
thicker rib stitching. the technique is to use the same rib stich
string but make the loops closer together. in other words use more
loops per foot of rib. ac43-13 has some good guidance and a table that
gives the rib stitch distance as related to airpeed. you can find
ac43-13 as a free download on the web.

why did I use speaque instead of speak, unstuque instead of unstuck?
I didnt want to be that hard nosed in correcting him :-)
keep up the good work bob.

oh PhD's make you so authoritative that you should strive for one.

PhD = post hole digger. they go really well on the power takeoff of
your average tractor :-) why my mate has two post hole diggers I'll
never know. :-)
Stealth Pilot