Airplane design.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:08:14 GMT, "Marc J. Zeitlin"
wrote:

Morgans wrote:

I know you have posted what you do there, but I have forgotten.
What is it, again, if you would?

I don't think that I have - maybe you're confusing me with someone else,
but I don't know who that might be - Scaled is not a big place :-).

I'm a mechanical/aeronautical engineer. I design stuff. Sometimes I
build it, too, and test it :-).

mark is the isolation of the mojave desert one of rutan's best aids to
invention?
if he worked in the bustle of LA, for instance, do you think he'd be
anywhere near as innovative or productive?

me, I just love working in my workshop without any television in
earshot.

Stealth Pilot

Stealth Pilot wrote:

mark is the isolation of the mojave desert one of rutan's best aids to
invention?

That's an interesting question. I hadn't thought about it. To tell you
the truth, I don't think so - he does a lot of traveling; there are
always folks coming in for visits, and I think that he's one of those
guys that would be productive/inventive locked in a box on the top of
Mt. Everest, or stuck in the middle of Manhattan. And while Mojave is
small, I wouldn't call it isolated (and I say that as someone that grew
up in NY and lived in Boston for 30 years).

if he worked in the bustle of LA, for instance, do you think he'd be
anywhere near as innovative or productive?

Yeah. I don't think it would matter :-).

me, I just love working in my workshop without any television in
earshot.

Agreed, although when I was building my Q2, I had the radio on full
blast all the time, either rock or news. However, building the COZY, I
liked it quiet.

--
Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006

"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
...

mark is the isolation of the mojave desert one of rutan's best aids to
invention?
if he worked in the bustle of LA, for instance, do you think he'd be
anywhere near as innovative or productive?

me, I just love working in my workshop without any television in
earshot.

Stealth Pilot

When Burt was working at Micky D at Lambert Field in St. Louis he was still
creative. I recall he mounted a large scale model of one of his designs,
the VariViggen I believe, on the hood of an old beater car and drove it at
appropriate speeds up and down the runway at the airport in St. Charles, Mo,
to do his wind tunnel work! I thought that was pretty darned creative!

Highflyer
Highflight Aviation Services
Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY )

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