Sorry, but anon ip numbers do not have the same civil rights as logged in members of the community. If you want to be a good editor, get an account, make good edits. I really don't care about your complaint as currently stated.-- Jimbo Wales
Perhaps you'd like to come to my talk page at Wikipedia and tell me what you're upset about. Why? So you can call him a troll once you get on your own turf?
Wikia is a completely separate organization. Why aren't links to Wikia nofollowed like every other external link posted on Wikipedia, then?
It seems odd to me that a completely separate organization would get this very special treatment. This ensures Wikia gets higher search engine rankings, and by extension more exposure and ad revenue.
He was using his fake credentials to enhance his reputation on Wikipedia. Reputation is everything for the typical Wikipedean. Special privileges are doled out to those that have convinced The Community that they are trustworthy servants to The Project. They say these positions are janitorial roles; that they are but a mop and a bucket for servants to The Project. In reality, they are status symbols for the obsessed, or tools used to enhance one's ability to push a particular point of view.
He was using his fake credentials to speak from authority on article content issues.
He cited his fake credentials in correspondence with real academics to try to enhance Wikipedia's credibility.
He cited his fake credentials to the media, apparently because those fifteen minutes of fame are much more fun when one is a tenured professor with four degrees instead of a college dropout living with a cat in Kentucky.
I submitted the headline as "Wikipedia's Wales Reverts Decision on Problem Admin" as a nod to those who have witnessed history being changed to suit Wikipedia consensus.
100LL fuel (most piston airplanes use this fuel) will be outlawed for use by the EPA in the not too distant future. There are only two alternatives; diesel and electric.
And automotive gasoline. The vast majority of piston aircraft engines will burn automotive gas just fine, and many of them already do.
This is incorrect. They can and do see a radar return. How else could they control an aircraft with an inoperative transponder, or an aircraft that doesn't have one at all? A transponder is NOT required equipment on all flights, even in controlled airspace.
There were several listed in our craphole little town, that were labeled as being in Nashville instead. I may get off my lazy ass and try to come up with a Clarksville area BBS list on my own.
These things fall under the category of Ultra-Light Aircraft and are regulated by the FAA.
Only in the U.S.
If memory serves, they must weigh in at less than 750lbs, gas supply is limited to only 4galons, can fly onl...
In short, they must carry one person only, weigh less than 254 lbs empty, carry no more than 5 gallons of fuel, cannot be capable of flight in excess of 55 knots, and has to stall at more tnan 24 knots. In addition to some various other things.
Autogyros can't take off and land vertically, they require forward speed to takeoff and land.
Some gyros, such as the Air and Space 18a, can takeoff vertically. Landing rollouts are very short.
Autogyros have the ability to autorotate the blade if you run out of gas or lose power to the blade.
The main rotor in an autogyro is unpowered. They autorotate all the time in flight.
The blade pitch is critical in getting the blades to autorotate, that is why parachutes are required.
Blade pitch in the vast majority of autogyros is fixed. Parachutes are NOT required.
The coolest ultralight I've seen is actually a rectangular ram-air parachute attached to a motorized frame
>That is why it is sold as a kit. Who are you >going to sue, when you are the person that made >it?
The designer, or the people who produce the kit. The homebuilt aircraft market is anything but immune to the lawsuits. Rotary Air Force, Vans Aircraft, and Team all have been sued recently. While they all won their respective lawsuits, Team still went under from the huge legal fees.
>Revlotion makes some really cool design in their >2 place helicopter kits
The thing is, they never made a two place other than the prototype, which was rumored to only have about 3 hours of flight time. They went out of business before any were produced. They did make a very popular single place (the Mini-500). It sold initially for around $25,000, but has been plagued with problems.
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It seems odd to me that a completely separate organization would get this very special treatment. This ensures Wikia gets higher search engine rankings, and by extension more exposure and ad revenue.
What is your explanation for this?
Isn't it time for him to come in here and tell us that it isn't a big deal and how we're all being trolled?
This is the evidence that Durova, self-proclaimed "complex investigations specialist" used to justify banning one of Wikipedia's finest contributors. http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Durova's_Sekret_Evidence
Here she is on Slashdot. In what appears to be an amazing coincidence, the person she is defending here is the same person who happens to run the mailing list in question.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=256781&cid=20020479
Is there any way to tell when I created my account?
Do you regard it as a pseudonym and don't see a problem with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
aaaannnnnd now those are gone too.
Of course, this just leaves more time for time for the paid position.
EssJay altered his userpage to indicate that he has quit Wikipedia. His account still has all its user rights, though.
He was using his fake credentials to enhance his reputation on Wikipedia. Reputation is everything for the typical Wikipedean. Special privileges are doled out to those that have convinced The Community that they are trustworthy servants to The Project. They say these positions are janitorial roles; that they are but a mop and a bucket for servants to The Project. In reality, they are status symbols for the obsessed, or tools used to enhance one's ability to push a particular point of view.
He was using his fake credentials to speak from authority on article content issues.
He cited his fake credentials in correspondence with real academics to try to enhance Wikipedia's credibility.
He cited his fake credentials to the media, apparently because those fifteen minutes of fame are much more fun when one is a tenured professor with four degrees instead of a college dropout living with a cat in Kentucky.
I submitted the headline as "Wikipedia's Wales Reverts Decision on Problem Admin" as a nod to those who have witnessed history being changed to suit Wikipedia consensus.
And automotive gasoline. The vast majority of piston aircraft engines will burn automotive gas just fine, and many of them already do.
This is incorrect. They can and do see a radar return. How else could they control an aircraft with an inoperative transponder, or an aircraft that doesn't have one at all? A transponder is NOT required equipment on all flights, even in controlled airspace.
There were several listed in our craphole little town, that were labeled as being in Nashville instead. I may get off my lazy ass and try to come up with a Clarksville area BBS list on my own.
Or maybe not.
These things fall under the category of Ultra-Light Aircraft and are regulated by the FAA.
Only in the U.S.
If memory serves, they must weigh in at less than 750lbs, gas supply is limited to only 4galons, can fly onl...
In short, they must carry one person only, weigh less than 254 lbs empty, carry no more than 5 gallons of fuel, cannot be capable of flight in excess of 55 knots, and has to stall at more tnan 24 knots. In addition to some various other things.
Autogyros can't take off and land vertically, they require forward speed to takeoff and land.
Some gyros, such as the Air and Space 18a, can takeoff vertically. Landing rollouts are very short.
Autogyros have the ability to autorotate the blade if you run out of gas or lose power to the blade.
The main rotor in an autogyro is unpowered. They autorotate all the time in flight.
The blade pitch is critical in getting the blades to autorotate, that is why parachutes are required.
Blade pitch in the vast majority of autogyros is fixed. Parachutes are NOT required.
The coolest ultralight I've seen is actually a rectangular ram-air parachute attached to a motorized frame
Agreed... Great fun, and relatively cheap to fly.
Not in the US, anyways. Some other countries have more relaxed standards for their ultralights.
>That is why it is sold as a kit. Who are you >going to sue, when you are the person that made >it?
The designer, or the people who produce the kit. The homebuilt aircraft market is anything but immune to the lawsuits. Rotary Air Force, Vans Aircraft, and Team all have been sued recently. While they all won their respective lawsuits, Team still went under from the huge legal fees.
>Revlotion makes some really cool design in their >2 place helicopter kits
The thing is, they never made a two place other than the prototype, which was rumored to only have about 3 hours of flight time. They went out of business before any were produced. They did make a very popular single place (the Mini-500). It sold initially for around $25,000, but has been plagued with problems.