Yes. Except I'm using a Megasquirt for engine control, and Ford EDIS modules for ignition. I got Ed Anderson to help me rebuild the engine last spring, and I should be ready to fire it up for the first time just as soon as the oil lines I ordered from Summit Racing get here.
Larry LaBeau has been flying his rotary powered Delta for several years now. Jim Maher had his flying for a year, before alcohol ladened fuel ate the epoxy in his fuel tank. He has since rebuilt the tank with aluminum, and should be flying again this spring.
Mine should fly for the first time sometime this spring, so I can't answer all your questions.
I'm using a rotary engine, and all indications from those flying are that it will be equivalent to a normally aspirated 360. My tank is slightly smaller than the plans, as I chose to weld up an aluminum tank so that I would have to worry about alcohol being in mogas.
Range and exact approach speeds?...TBD.
It will carry 3 adults comfortably. The pilot will be VERY comfortable compared to most light planes.
I will spend somewhere in that range building my Dyke Delta over a 7 year period. That comes out to just under $6/day. I know "poor" people that spend more than that in cigarettes. I know high-schoolers that spend MORE than that going to movies. There are a LOT of people reading this forum that could point out $15K of audio-visual and computer equipment that they've bought over just the last few years.
$15K to spend on a permanent hobby in America is middle-class. Granted, by world standards that is still rich, but even the poor in America are rich to most of the world.
The (relatively) recent Fossett crash is a prime example of this -- His aircraft was not equipped with a ELT beacon at all (in violation of law) and had he been ELT equipped, he would have been found within a day.
First, it isn't against the law unless he was carrying passengers. The plane he was flying did not fall under those regs.
Second, the plane would only be found IFF the ELT was activated by and lived through the crash. Historically, the odds are about even that this will not be the case.
The big thing that changes here is that, with the sattelites no longer monitoring, ATC will not get an automatic alert when a beacon turns on. This tech is spotty at best, however, and of course, 90% of ELT activations are false alarms anyways.
The new 406 Mhz beacons include a GPS reciever and actively transmit their location, such that rescue units simply get a waypoint on their GPS where the transmitter is downed. They are a far better technology, but the existing system does work well.
For some value of "well". The current system is a congressionally mandated hack, rushed into production in the 70's when some congress-critter went missing while flying over Alaska. It barely works at all, and, due to the excessive amount of false alarms, it is debatable if it is better than nothing.
Overall, more hype than needed.
Granted. I've added the ELT to my 4-place Dyke Delta (search for it on Yahoo groups, I don't want my wimpy server slashdotted). They're cheap right now. I *might* add a 406Mhz beacon at some point in the future, but right now I'm thinking that APRS (http://www.vansairforce.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=104) is a better technology for the type of flying I'm likely to be doing.
For two semesters? She couldn't get to her classes for a whole semester, and then ponied up the cash for another connectionless semester?
No. This was not the school's 'fault'. If I had missed two DAYS of classes, I would have raised hell all the way up and down the line until someone fixed something somewhere, or I would have found out what the problem was and fixed it myself.
The problem was that this woman was/is a complete dipshit.
The modem provides an ethernet port. You should have stopped there. The modulator/demodulator is the endpoint of a bridge connection that exposes the computer plugged into its ethernet port to the providers network. One of the computers on that network will be a DHCP server that will provide the computer plugged into the modulator/demodulator with an IP address and DNS server address to use. No software from the client computer is needed or desired.
BFD. Contact me when it is in decline. A positive growth rate means that sales are still growing. That's just something that bugs me about economic news reporting. We're not in a !!CRISIS!!!..Oh, Nooo!...We're ALL gonna' DIE!! situation, and if we're headed in that direction, reporting how dire the situation is because the economy grew (but not as much as last quarter) doesn't help anybody...except maybe the newscaster.
So, reading the summary, the worst growth rate was 1.8%. That means, on average, the company that sold 100 PCs last quarter, sold 102 PCs this quarter. Boo-friggin'-hoo.
The government should ensure that there is a fair and competitive market, but i wouldn't go so far as to say they should enter it themselves.
They shouldn't, but they don't need to to accomplish the goal of open sourcing software. They should commission a software project to do what they need done, put a contract out for bidding, and then simply open source the results.
How about the Feds just stick to contracting for code to run the Fed, and then opening the code. There is no business process done in any business that isn't also done by the federal government at some level. Instead of handing out money to build a VRML viewer, they're building out the federal infrastructure, and giving the people something which the people have already paid for anyway. O'Reilly, et.al., would be shut down from the get go.
You are correct. So the prudent thing for the new administration to do is to look at things where government spending works, and concentrate on those.
I have a friend that does air-control design. It goes a little beyond your basic HVAC, but involves quite a bit of it. He was around during the 70's/80's when the US Feds were giving out money for "solar heating" devices. He says that it got so ridiculous, you would see companies sticking a solar panel on a wood stove and calling it a solar heater. The government just isn't good at subsidizing industries in this way. The laws can't be written specifically enough to allow innovation, while at the same time limiting those who just want to game the system. I foresee the same thing happening with the incoming president's "energy policy". It will be a grab-bag for a bunch of scammers. What the government should do is build up the infrastructure (to enable commerce), set the interface standards, and then let anyone that thinks they can make a profit selling energy at market rates have a go at it.
For software, the better alternative is to fund an open office suite or other tools for use by all federal agencies. Any company can participate (including Microsoft), but the results would be open source and free from licensing/patent baggage, and owned by "the people". The data exchange formats would be likewise unencumbered. If you can work within that framework and make a better widgit than the "hobbyist", then you should be able to earn a tidy profit. Otherwise, don't quit your day job.
You know how in all the action movies, the women are big breasted with a thin waste? All the black men are "from the hood", except for the one intelligent black guy who is portrayed as a complete wus? All the heroes are muscular middle-weights that look scared adn then easily pummel men twice their size? How the slim, big-breasted woman also beats up the big guy? How every native American "loves the land"?
Yeah, you might want to ignore most of that shit. Nearly anything coming out of Hollywood is going to be filled with cardboard characters in place of real people (which would require actual effort and real acting to create).
The truth about American high-school is that it is a mash-up of immature people crammed into a small environment with artificial goals and to much time to achieve them. Idleness begets gossip and other forms of idiocy. Most of the types of idiocy are predictable and can be classified into groups. These classifications then fall into stereotypes that the movie people can pick up on.
I graduated second in my senior class, was captain of my cross-country team, and made it to the state tournament in wrestling. I was very popular and sociable at the start of my senior year even though I was poor and nerdy. I lost that as I got bogged down in school work and sporting events, and began to feel uncomfortable in social situations.
I never saw myself in any high-school movie, nor anything more than a shadow of anyone I knew.
When they have expended that much energy to look good in public, how much effort will they want to spend looking good in private. You know. Once they get home. Just cause they dress up nice to go out in public, don't mean they won't hit the flannel and mud facials as soon as they get home.
When I see a pampered woman in public, I assume there's a man working his ass off to show off a pampered woman, and then sleeping around to get some satisfaction.
I'm wondering what the 'suspicious problems' could be? There's a difference between a wing pin being removed and all the fuel from a tank being drained.
And don't forget that "starvation" occurs after all 'usable' fuel has been consumed. You can't get ALL the fuel out of most wing mounted tanks, because the fuel pickup isn't on the bottom. A 20gal tank with 1gal in it is more of an explosion hazard than a full tank.
I personally know an ex-navy pilot who has been flying longer than I've been alive. He built is own RV-6. He ran out of fuel and made a dead-stick landing. The other tank was full.
I've made landings myself in a Cherokee-141. One tank was full, and the one I was using was nearly dry. Scared me shitless, because of how easy it is to screw up that badly.
The Dyke Delta I'm building has one 50gal tank. There are modifications that allow the tank to be relocated to other places (it currently sits behind the passengers' heads), but that means splitting the tank and switching between them. I refuse to go out like that.
The rule on engine out at night is to go in wings level and take whatever it is below you. You can't tell a plowed cornfield from a stand of trees from a lake, so it makes more sense to try to prepare for the crash than to try to pick a landing spot. This pretty much assures that you're SOL, but then again if you have an engine out at night you're pretty much SOL. When flying at night, I prefer to follow roads that I know are wide and straight (64 to 220 when flying between Raleigh and Greensboro, NC) With any luck, the car's headlights will be like runway lights.
The other thing is that landing in a cornfield is pretty much guaranteed to destroy the airplane. If the corn is tall, the airplane will wind up on it's back. If the field is plowed, you have a decent chance if you land with the ruts. If you land across the ruts, the airplane will wind up on it's back.
Experienced pilots develop what we call "an ego". The often believe that they have the skills to make an airplane do more than what it really can do. The description of the plane before landing sounds like he tried to extend the glide, pulled the airplane into a stall, and then was to low to recover without power. This particular crash scenario is sickenly typical, and is one of the areas concentrated on the most in recurrent pilot training.
Airplanes, especially the small ones, have what is called 'usable fuel'. You can't put the tank outlet on the bottom, because that would make the plumbing stick out in the wind. Most wing-mounted tanks will have a gallon or two of fuel left in them when they are empty for the purpose of supplying fuel to the engine.
And saying that it was odd that an experienced pilot ran out of gas?....Bwha-ha-ha-ha!!! That's funny dude. That half of a statement clearly shows that Miller has not clue of what he speaks. Hell, a TEAM of highly experienced pilots put a newly restored B-24 Liberator down in the water when they RAN OUT OF FUEL. Do a google for "GA fuel starvation". It is still the leading cause of GA accidents.
The email you sent is ambiguous at best. If I got that email, I would have done the shutdown as instructed on Thursday night, but I would have assumed that you would be done on Friday morning. From that point on, I would continue working as I always had. Powering off a PC that isn't going to be used for nearly 3 days sounds like a good way to save the company a pretty penny, and that is what I would have done.
In short, your email sucked if the behavior you wanted was a restart shutdown EVERY night. It should have read something like, "From this point forward we are changing the recommended daily restart procedure to a requirement." Good communication is more than just saying something. It is about saying the right thing to get the appropriate response. In your case, you didn't actually ask for what you wanted.
Which brings us back on point. Mr. Shuttleworth deciding to look closely at how and when notifications are presented, and what they say, will do more for Ubuntu's popularity than any other single thing he could possibly do. Having timely information that leads to the actual source of a problem makes errors trivial. Bothersome interruptions from notifications of inconsequential things you can't do anything about, or misleading error messages, make people hate computers and those that write programs for them.
The only way to 'inject' water into the atmosphere and have it radiate heat is to boil it. Misting water is an incredibly endothermic reaction. If you can mist enough air into the atmosphere to make a difference, you create a local cool spot which will sink...fast and hard. Cool air is heavier than warm air.
Now there needs to be some other force added to 'loft' this cooler air to higher altitude. I'm sorry, but around here we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics.
It's frustrating, because you're doing it totally wrong.
And.. how is that the user's fault?
No one said it was his 'fault'. If I see you trying to drive a nail, but holding the hammer backwards, I don't have to lay blame to instruct you to turn the hammer around. Hopefully, with just that one short paragraph TaoPhoenix will get his feet under him and have a totally different Linux experience.
Adept/Synaptic/Yum ARE the killer apps for Linux.
3 different apps to do the same or similar things means little consistency. That's the problem with linux distros and has always been a problem. Too much choice and not very much consistency with apps installed by default and their GUIs.
And they are all easy to install, then remove completely, free to try, and completely optional. I have needed a program to accomplish a task. I installed five, played with all of them, and removed four of them...all in less than an hour. You may not like choice, but judging by the number of brands of self-rising flour in the grocery store, I would say that you are in the extreme minority.
The producers "gross" 11 million. She compares that to the artists net income. To which I say, "boo-fucking-hoo".
If the artists don't like the deal, don't hire a manager or a lawyer. Why are they hiring managers or lawyers if the managers and lawyers don't do anything? And if the managers and lawyers have a value, why are they bitching about having to pay them. I mean, I'd have a lot more money if that dickhead mechanic down the street didn't keep charging me for fixing my car.
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Yes. Except I'm using a Megasquirt for engine control, and Ford EDIS modules for ignition. I got Ed Anderson to help me rebuild the engine last spring, and I should be ready to fire it up for the first time just as soon as the oil lines I ordered from Summit Racing get here.
Larry LaBeau has been flying his rotary powered Delta for several years now. Jim Maher had his flying for a year, before alcohol ladened fuel ate the epoxy in his fuel tank. He has since rebuilt the tank with aluminum, and should be flying again this spring.
If you're truly interested, take the time to look up my last journal entry.
Mine should fly for the first time sometime this spring, so I can't answer all your questions.
I'm using a rotary engine, and all indications from those flying are that it will be equivalent to a normally aspirated 360. My tank is slightly smaller than the plans, as I chose to weld up an aluminum tank so that I would have to worry about alcohol being in mogas.
Range and exact approach speeds?...TBD.
It will carry 3 adults comfortably. The pilot will be VERY comfortable compared to most light planes.
What about if you got a 1.8% raise, and inflation was only 0.7%
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/67f9af54-e3dc-11dd-8274-0000779fd2ac.html
What about when there is deflation, and you still have a job.
$15K, over what time period?
I will spend somewhere in that range building my Dyke Delta over a 7 year period. That comes out to just under $6/day. I know "poor" people that spend more than that in cigarettes. I know high-schoolers that spend MORE than that going to movies. There are a LOT of people reading this forum that could point out $15K of audio-visual and computer equipment that they've bought over just the last few years.
$15K to spend on a permanent hobby in America is middle-class. Granted, by world standards that is still rich, but even the poor in America are rich to most of the world.
Not just Wheel of Fortune. High-Definition Wheel of Fortune.
Now that changes the equation a bit, doesn't it?
The (relatively) recent Fossett crash is a prime example of this -- His aircraft was not equipped with a ELT beacon at all (in violation of law) and had he been ELT equipped, he would have been found within a day.
First, it isn't against the law unless he was carrying passengers. The plane he was flying did not fall under those regs.
Second, the plane would only be found IFF the ELT was activated by and lived through the crash. Historically, the odds are about even that this will not be the case.
The big thing that changes here is that, with the sattelites no longer monitoring, ATC will not get an automatic alert when a beacon turns on. This tech is spotty at best, however, and of course, 90% of ELT activations are false alarms anyways.
The new 406 Mhz beacons include a GPS reciever and actively transmit their location, such that rescue units simply get a waypoint on their GPS where the transmitter is downed. They are a far better technology, but the existing system does work well.
For some value of "well". The current system is a congressionally mandated hack, rushed into production in the 70's when some congress-critter went missing while flying over Alaska. It barely works at all, and, due to the excessive amount of false alarms, it is debatable if it is better than nothing.
Overall, more hype than needed.
Granted. I've added the ELT to my 4-place Dyke Delta (search for it on Yahoo groups, I don't want my wimpy server slashdotted). They're cheap right now. I *might* add a 406Mhz beacon at some point in the future, but right now I'm thinking that APRS (http://www.vansairforce.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=104) is a better technology for the type of flying I'm likely to be doing.
She was probably already educated beyond her intelligence anyhow.
For two semesters? She couldn't get to her classes for a whole semester, and then ponied up the cash for another connectionless semester?
No. This was not the school's 'fault'. If I had missed two DAYS of classes, I would have raised hell all the way up and down the line until someone fixed something somewhere, or I would have found out what the problem was and fixed it myself.
The problem was that this woman was/is a complete dipshit.
The modem provides an ethernet port. You should have stopped there. The modulator/demodulator is the endpoint of a bridge connection that exposes the computer plugged into its ethernet port to the providers network. One of the computers on that network will be a DHCP server that will provide the computer plugged into the modulator/demodulator with an IP address and DNS server address to use. No software from the client computer is needed or desired.
"posted its worst growth rate ever"
BFD. Contact me when it is in decline. A positive growth rate means that sales are still growing. That's just something that bugs me about economic news reporting. We're not in a !!CRISIS!!!..Oh, Nooo!...We're ALL gonna' DIE!! situation, and if we're headed in that direction, reporting how dire the situation is because the economy grew (but not as much as last quarter) doesn't help anybody...except maybe the newscaster.
So, reading the summary, the worst growth rate was 1.8%. That means, on average, the company that sold 100 PCs last quarter, sold 102 PCs this quarter. Boo-friggin'-hoo.
The government should ensure that there is a fair and competitive market, but i wouldn't go so far as to say they should enter it themselves.
They shouldn't, but they don't need to to accomplish the goal of open sourcing software. They should commission a software project to do what they need done, put a contract out for bidding, and then simply open source the results.
How about the Feds just stick to contracting for code to run the Fed, and then opening the code. There is no business process done in any business that isn't also done by the federal government at some level. Instead of handing out money to build a VRML viewer, they're building out the federal infrastructure, and giving the people something which the people have already paid for anyway. O'Reilly, et.al., would be shut down from the get go.
You are correct. So the prudent thing for the new administration to do is to look at things where government spending works, and concentrate on those.
I have a friend that does air-control design. It goes a little beyond your basic HVAC, but involves quite a bit of it. He was around during the 70's/80's when the US Feds were giving out money for "solar heating" devices. He says that it got so ridiculous, you would see companies sticking a solar panel on a wood stove and calling it a solar heater. The government just isn't good at subsidizing industries in this way. The laws can't be written specifically enough to allow innovation, while at the same time limiting those who just want to game the system. I foresee the same thing happening with the incoming president's "energy policy". It will be a grab-bag for a bunch of scammers. What the government should do is build up the infrastructure (to enable commerce), set the interface standards, and then let anyone that thinks they can make a profit selling energy at market rates have a go at it.
For software, the better alternative is to fund an open office suite or other tools for use by all federal agencies. Any company can participate (including Microsoft), but the results would be open source and free from licensing/patent baggage, and owned by "the people". The data exchange formats would be likewise unencumbered. If you can work within that framework and make a better widgit than the "hobbyist", then you should be able to earn a tidy profit. Otherwise, don't quit your day job.
Yeah, about those high-school stereotypes:
You know how in all the action movies, the women are big breasted with a thin waste? All the black men are "from the hood", except for the one intelligent black guy who is portrayed as a complete wus? All the heroes are muscular middle-weights that look scared adn then easily pummel men twice their size? How the slim, big-breasted woman also beats up the big guy? How every native American "loves the land"?
Yeah, you might want to ignore most of that shit. Nearly anything coming out of Hollywood is going to be filled with cardboard characters in place of real people (which would require actual effort and real acting to create).
The truth about American high-school is that it is a mash-up of immature people crammed into a small environment with artificial goals and to much time to achieve them. Idleness begets gossip and other forms of idiocy. Most of the types of idiocy are predictable and can be classified into groups. These classifications then fall into stereotypes that the movie people can pick up on.
I graduated second in my senior class, was captain of my cross-country team, and made it to the state tournament in wrestling. I was very popular and sociable at the start of my senior year even though I was poor and nerdy. I lost that as I got bogged down in school work and sporting events, and began to feel uncomfortable in social situations.
I never saw myself in any high-school movie, nor anything more than a shadow of anyone I knew.
The other side:
When they have expended that much energy to look good in public, how much effort will they want to spend looking good in private. You know. Once they get home. Just cause they dress up nice to go out in public, don't mean they won't hit the flannel and mud facials as soon as they get home.
When I see a pampered woman in public, I assume there's a man working his ass off to show off a pampered woman, and then sleeping around to get some satisfaction.
I'm wondering what the 'suspicious problems' could be? There's a difference between a wing pin being removed and all the fuel from a tank being drained.
And don't forget that "starvation" occurs after all 'usable' fuel has been consumed. You can't get ALL the fuel out of most wing mounted tanks, because the fuel pickup isn't on the bottom. A 20gal tank with 1gal in it is more of an explosion hazard than a full tank.
I personally know an ex-navy pilot who has been flying longer than I've been alive. He built is own RV-6. He ran out of fuel and made a dead-stick landing. The other tank was full.
I've made landings myself in a Cherokee-141. One tank was full, and the one I was using was nearly dry. Scared me shitless, because of how easy it is to screw up that badly.
The Dyke Delta I'm building has one 50gal tank. There are modifications that allow the tank to be relocated to other places (it currently sits behind the passengers' heads), but that means splitting the tank and switching between them. I refuse to go out like that.
The rule on engine out at night is to go in wings level and take whatever it is below you. You can't tell a plowed cornfield from a stand of trees from a lake, so it makes more sense to try to prepare for the crash than to try to pick a landing spot. This pretty much assures that you're SOL, but then again if you have an engine out at night you're pretty much SOL. When flying at night, I prefer to follow roads that I know are wide and straight (64 to 220 when flying between Raleigh and Greensboro, NC) With any luck, the car's headlights will be like runway lights.
The other thing is that landing in a cornfield is pretty much guaranteed to destroy the airplane. If the corn is tall, the airplane will wind up on it's back. If the field is plowed, you have a decent chance if you land with the ruts. If you land across the ruts, the airplane will wind up on it's back.
Experienced pilots develop what we call "an ego". The often believe that they have the skills to make an airplane do more than what it really can do. The description of the plane before landing sounds like he tried to extend the glide, pulled the airplane into a stall, and then was to low to recover without power. This particular crash scenario is sickenly typical, and is one of the areas concentrated on the most in recurrent pilot training.
Airplanes, especially the small ones, have what is called 'usable fuel'. You can't put the tank outlet on the bottom, because that would make the plumbing stick out in the wind. Most wing-mounted tanks will have a gallon or two of fuel left in them when they are empty for the purpose of supplying fuel to the engine.
And saying that it was odd that an experienced pilot ran out of gas?....Bwha-ha-ha-ha!!! That's funny dude. That half of a statement clearly shows that Miller has not clue of what he speaks. Hell, a TEAM of highly experienced pilots put a newly restored B-24 Liberator down in the water when they RAN OUT OF FUEL. Do a google for "GA fuel starvation". It is still the leading cause of GA accidents.
Uh, yes. Find a dictionary, and look up the term 'endothermic'.
The email you sent is ambiguous at best. If I got that email, I would have done the shutdown as instructed on Thursday night, but I would have assumed that you would be done on Friday morning. From that point on, I would continue working as I always had. Powering off a PC that isn't going to be used for nearly 3 days sounds like a good way to save the company a pretty penny, and that is what I would have done.
In short, your email sucked if the behavior you wanted was a restart shutdown EVERY night. It should have read something like, "From this point forward we are changing the recommended daily restart procedure to a requirement." Good communication is more than just saying something. It is about saying the right thing to get the appropriate response. In your case, you didn't actually ask for what you wanted.
Which brings us back on point. Mr. Shuttleworth deciding to look closely at how and when notifications are presented, and what they say, will do more for Ubuntu's popularity than any other single thing he could possibly do. Having timely information that leads to the actual source of a problem makes errors trivial. Bothersome interruptions from notifications of inconsequential things you can't do anything about, or misleading error messages, make people hate computers and those that write programs for them.
The only way to 'inject' water into the atmosphere and have it radiate heat is to boil it. Misting water is an incredibly endothermic reaction. If you can mist enough air into the atmosphere to make a difference, you create a local cool spot which will sink...fast and hard. Cool air is heavier than warm air.
Now there needs to be some other force added to 'loft' this cooler air to higher altitude. I'm sorry, but around here we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics.
And.. how is that the user's fault?
No one said it was his 'fault'. If I see you trying to drive a nail, but holding the hammer backwards, I don't have to lay blame to instruct you to turn the hammer around. Hopefully, with just that one short paragraph TaoPhoenix will get his feet under him and have a totally different Linux experience.
3 different apps to do the same or similar things means little consistency. That's the problem with linux distros and has always been a problem. Too much choice and not very much consistency with apps installed by default and their GUIs.
And they are all easy to install, then remove completely, free to try, and completely optional. I have needed a program to accomplish a task. I installed five, played with all of them, and removed four of them...all in less than an hour. You may not like choice, but judging by the number of brands of self-rising flour in the grocery store, I would say that you are in the extreme minority.
The producers "gross" 11 million. She compares that to the artists net income. To which I say, "boo-fucking-hoo".
If the artists don't like the deal, don't hire a manager or a lawyer. Why are they hiring managers or lawyers if the managers and lawyers don't do anything? And if the managers and lawyers have a value, why are they bitching about having to pay them. I mean, I'd have a lot more money if that dickhead mechanic down the street didn't keep charging me for fixing my car.