Post #282,639
4/22/07 7:47:11 PM
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Umm. No.
[link|http://www.glumbert.com/media/highpower|I don't think I want this job].
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #282,641
4/22/07 7:52:04 PM
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Neat. Think I'd be more nervous as the copter pilot though.
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Post #282,886
4/24/07 10:37:55 AM
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I'd be more nervous flying any helicopter.
They're really cool, but they have this habit of not coming apart a little bit at a time.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #282,892
4/24/07 10:55:50 AM
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Yup. I wonder if someone will ever make one like a bee.
[link|http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060111082100.htm|Science Daily] has an article on a model of honeybee flight. Greater understanding of things like this may eventually make helicopters (at least small ones) a little less dangerous.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #282,956
4/24/07 6:47:23 PM
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As bad.. Dead Man's Curve
Make a parabola. Draw X-Y axes.
Glue the parabola (on its side, like that, er familiar shape) to the "wall" == Y-axis, about 60' up, on the scale you've also drawn. The tip at right is (used to be) ~60 mph on your X-axis scale.
Inside that area, generally you be daid if it quits.
If you're moving horiz. faster than 60 or so, then the air below you
(already compressed away by rotors, thus unable to provide static air-mass for autorotating) is not a problem.. and you can glide.
ie. precision hovering, below the ~60' alt. is the absolute worst case scenario if engine failure. (At somewhere beyond 150ish? alt. apparently you can still achieve autoration, if all design features were just right.)
All depends on your adoration-level of the God of Technology / and how many of its -ologists you think -?- are/were fully conscious, while at work. Eh?
On cycles - I've always inspected tires on up, before every ride \ufffd l\ufffd any old jet jockey with a checklist. It worked. So far -
Now with all the fiddly bits in and outta sight on a rotary -- crap shoot. Y'aint gonna find bad U-joint #43. I'd still kill for a ride in the Carter Copter If Ever ... Doug Marker manages to get one up to SR airport. :-)
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Post #283,035
4/25/07 9:43:50 AM
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Then there's that pesky "Ground Resonance".
I saw a helicopter completely shaken apart from that. Ugly, VERY ugly. True, it is easy enough to get out off, but you've got to yank it back off the ground quickly or you're toast.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #282,644
4/22/07 8:21:05 PM
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I DO!
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Post #282,658
4/23/07 12:26:03 AM
8/21/07 5:40:17 AM
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I've had worse
I worked as a broadcast tower technician in college. At least he got a ride to the top. I always had to climb.
FM is easy - the tower is just there to get the antenna up off the ground. AM towers are fully energized and small "buzzy" differences in potential between sections are not uncommon. Plus you have to mount them by leaping from a wooden ladder to avoid becoming an unwilling conductor.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
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Post #282,691
4/23/07 7:12:58 AM
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A- on narration!
Been there.. OK, not up in the air, too -
(Inside the cage of a 500 KV Cockroft-Walton. Not the same Amperes possible as up-there, but lethal enough for biped-work.)
Everything he said re. 'safe' makes sense; 'course there's also freak weather - but I'd suppose they are Very conservative about that - and in that event, you DO take out the line for a few minutes.
Rilly Cuuute sign-off
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Post #282,869
4/24/07 9:26:08 AM
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Shocking!
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #282,871
4/24/07 9:30:39 AM
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It took a while for that obvious comment to appear, I note.
I could say something about electrifying experience, I guess... but I'm sure it will be grounded before too long.
Wade aka static.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #282,966
4/24/07 8:19:11 PM
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I could do that, love the flying part
and almost dying by electrical shock makes me REAL careful around the stuff.
thanx,
bill
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