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RV-7a baggage area
Hello All,
I am strongly considering the RV-7a and am interested in knowing the dimensions of the baggage area behind the seats. Thanks David |
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Go to Van's website.. or email them.
www.vansaircraft.com Dave David Smith wrote: Hello All, I am strongly considering the RV-7a and am interested in knowing the dimensions of the baggage area behind the seats. Thanks David |
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Baggage 100 lbs
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Hello All, I am strongly considering the RV-7a and am interested in knowing the dimensions of the baggage area behind the seats. Thanks David "EUTNET" wrote: Baggage 100 lbs +++++++++++++++++ ARRRGH. Go directly to jail. Do NOT pass GO. Do NOT collect $200. Monopoly BOb -- |
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And hence we have ANOTHER person who cannot tell the difference between
MASS and VOLUME. I feel your frustration. And.. whats sad is.. the person who said 100 pounds probably thought they were being helpful by pointing out something "obvious" Dave RR Urban wrote: Hello All, I am strongly considering the RV-7a and am interested in knowing the dimensions of the baggage area behind the seats. Thanks David "EUTNET" wrote: Baggage 100 lbs +++++++++++++++++ ARRRGH. Go directly to jail. Do NOT pass GO. Do NOT collect $200. Monopoly BOb -- |
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Dave S wrote:
And hence we have ANOTHER person who cannot tell the difference between MASS and VOLUME. I feel your frustration. And.. whats sad is.. the person who said 100 pounds probably thought they were being helpful by pointing out something "obvious" Dave Those that point out the mistakes of others would do well to mind their own. Pounds (lbs.) are a measure of weight, not mass (which in the English system would be slugs). Van's own web page shows the baggage area to be "12+ cu. ft." If you need a more precise number, I would suggest contacting Van's Aircraft directly. http://www.vansaircraft.com/public/rv-7spe.htm Russell Kent |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:59:10 -0600, Russell Kent
wrote: Dave S wrote: And hence we have ANOTHER person who cannot tell the difference between MASS and VOLUME. I feel your frustration. And.. whats sad is.. the person who said 100 pounds probably thought they were being helpful by pointing out something "obvious" Dave Those that point out the mistakes of others would do well to mind their own. Heed your own advice, fool. Pounds (lbs.) are a measure of weight, not mass (which in the English system would be slugs). Where'd you get that idea? Gene Nygaard http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/ Gentlemen of the jury, Chicolini here may look like an idiot, and sound like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: He really is an idiot. Groucho Marx |
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Russell Kent wrote:
Those that point out the mistakes of others would do well to mind their own. Gene Nygaard responded: Heed your own advice, fool. On entirely too many occasions I am indeed a fool, but I don't see where devolving to name calling improves the conversation. Besides gently (IMHO) chastising the intervening poster's rant, I still provided a useful answer to the original poster's question (12+ cu. ft.) and a reference to the source. Russell Kent continued: Pounds (lbs.) are a measure of weight, not mass (which in the English system would be slugs). Gene Nygaard responded: Where'd you get that idea? Uh, 2 years of high school physics (a jillion years ago). Perhaps a few web references will help clear the cobwebs: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Slug.html http://www.physics.ucla.edu/k-6connection/Mass,w,d.htm Russell Kent |
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OK, I know it's bad form to follow-up one's own posting. So sue me. :-)
Gene, I see from your signature that this "weight vs. mass" thing is a personal windmill for you. Fine. And I see that slug isn't used anymore (pound-force is the term now). And for non-technical conversations, pound is a unit of mass. Here's a question though: is this forum a technical or non-technical conversation? And look at the sequence of postings: EUTNET wrote that the baggage area dimension was 100 lbs, obviously meaning *weight*, and Dave S. complained that EUTNET "cannot tell the difference between MASS and VOLUME." [emphasis Dave's] So I believe Dave should have instead written "WEIGHT and VOLUME." Now I suspect that Dave S. was merely careless and really does understand the difference between mass and weight, and I was trying to gently pass along the advice that newsgroup corrections are invariably inspected for even the slightest error (see this thread!). I welcome you (Gene) jumping in at that point to correct the whole weight vs. mass, slugs, pound-force hullabalu, but I wish you'd do it with a bit less hostility. Someone may well have ****ed in your cornflakes, but I assure you it wasn't me. :-) Russell Kent Russell Kent wrote: Russell Kent wrote: Those that point out the mistakes of others would do well to mind their own. Gene Nygaard responded: Heed your own advice, fool. On entirely too many occasions I am indeed a fool, but I don't see where devolving to name calling improves the conversation. Besides gently (IMHO) chastising the intervening poster's rant, I still provided a useful answer to the original poster's question (12+ cu. ft.) and a reference to the source. Russell Kent continued: Pounds (lbs.) are a measure of weight, not mass (which in the English system would be slugs). Gene Nygaard responded: Where'd you get that idea? Uh, 2 years of high school physics (a jillion years ago). Perhaps a few web references will help clear the cobwebs: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Slug.html http://www.physics.ucla.edu/k-6connection/Mass,w,d.htm Russell Kent |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:02:03 -0600, Russell Kent
wrote: Russell Kent wrote: Those that point out the mistakes of others would do well to mind their own. Gene Nygaard responded: Heed your own advice, fool. On entirely too many occasions I am indeed a fool, but I don't see where devolving to name calling improves the conversation. I see that even that wasn't enough to get your attention, Chicolini. How big a bat do I need to hit you over the head with to get your attention? Besides gently (IMHO) chastising the intervening poster's rant, I still provided a useful answer to the original poster's question (12+ cu. ft.) and a reference to the source. Yes, you got that right. Too bad nobody will pat you on the back for it, because you obscured it with irrelevant nonsense, and even worse, an incorrect claim of error on someone else's part. Russell Kent continued: Pounds (lbs.) are a measure of weight, not mass (which in the English system would be slugs). Gene Nygaard responded: Where'd you get that idea? Uh, 2 years of high school physics (a jillion years ago). Perhaps a few web references will help clear the cobwebs: If you found those references, you also found many that got it right. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Slug.html Slugs are units of mass. That's not what I'm calling you on. But that little-used 20th century invention, which didn't even appear in physics textbooks before 1940, are by no stretch of the imagination _the_ units of mass in "the English system." Pounds force also exist, but that's also beside the point. Back up your claim that pounds are not units of mass. That's where you falsely claimed that Dave S. was making an error. -- Gene Nygaard http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/ "It's not the things you don't know what gets you into trouble. "It's the things you do know that just ain't so." Will Rogers |
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