Sail On --> into the sunset (lucky bastridge!)

Post #282,794 by Ashton 4/23/07 5:38:06 PM Reply	Sail On --> into the sunset (lucky bastridge!) I once had the er, thought -- of living on a houseboat in Sausalito, commuting to The Lab\ufffd across the Bay ... via . . . . wait for it - - Benson Gyrocopter. Cute one-man gadget. No web then.. but finally read a few about the home-built rotors and the consequences of error. [OK - ya could buy those preassembled: a Good Plan, I wotted..] There was an adequate parking lot on the Hill, for the roll-out. Started calculating.. Leather jacket, goggles [check] Radio.. in event ditching looked imminent. (No GPS then, either) No sweat if engine died - autorotate does fine. . . But >THEY< wouldn't let me use it. Something about Rulez for experimental aircraft. Government is always a coward. Dream extinguished. Life saved. No boat {sob}.
Post #282,855 by CRConrad 4/24/07 3:18:55 AM Reply	Have later rule changes made it permissible,as "ultralight"?
Post #282,882 by tuberculosis 4/24/07 10:32:31 AM 8/21/07 5:44:08 AM Reply	Most certainly But it sounded like "they" might have been his employer not wanting the thing in the parking lot. 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 Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:08 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #282,995 by Ashton 4/24/07 10:57:55 PM Reply	Nah.. all the troops woulda Loved It - place lousy with engineers, machinists, tool & die pros (who helped on some er, motorcycle bits, now and then.) I learned to use a milling machine! along with lathes and such, early on. Science as -- one huge sand box; make your own toys! (in between making particles go faster n'stuff, natch.) but what with The Regents of the Univ.. + Fed contracts all over, lawyer-think was pretty inescapable. I'd have been just too bloody Visible, y'know? Had it not been thus, I'm sure that within a few weeks I'd have had the swinkiest Gyrocopter around - some titanium might even have been found in 'salvage'. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. -- Anon
Post #283,010 by CRConrad 4/25/07 3:46:18 AM Reply	Anon exposed: John Greenleaf Whittier! But, hey, the page is called [link\|http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?7,151984,151987\|Lost Poetry Quotations], so it seems you're not alone. :-) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]
Post #283,073 by Ashton 4/25/07 4:22:01 PM Reply	Boffo find.. 'Twas a nefarious plot aided by sloth, of course - picking Anon as the famous author. I knew Someone'd Google the sucker - I know I first heard it as a tyke, and it stuck :-) Damn.. another time-sink. But the Best kind! Gracias

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