Hangar Chat

We keep going back to San Francisco in some of these threads. I'm starting a new one here. Some of you may remember this from my Me and Lee series. Imagine two little boys wandering around downtown all by themselves. Going Downtown Going downtown was always an adventure for Lee and I. At first, Mom used to take us shopping with her. Then, when I was about 9 and had joined the Cub Scouts, Mom let Lee and I go downtown by ourselves. Downtown was a pretty long walk from Larkin and Pacific, especially for runt towheads with short legs. Depending on our route, it was about twenty blocks from our house to the Emporium, the major department store on Market S…

This is the famous Berkshires UFO incident. One of the witnesses, plus his mother who also witnessed it, are interviewed by body language experts. Two of them ex military. Witnesses seem very believable and quite a fascinating story they have to tell.

I didn't realize how valuable some used cars are. They are bringing a premium price. For the last decade I had been leasing a Toyota Prius. Every three years I would turn it in and lease a new one. Not this year though. I have been driving a top of the line Prius for the past three years. The lease is up this month. And a comparable new Prius is not available. There is a shortage of them. So, I decided to pay off the residual and buy the one have been leasing for the past three years. I checked the Kelly Blue Book and discovered the price of paying off the residual of the one I have been driving is about 10,000 dollars less than the book value. So, …

Here ya go Sue! https://www.flyingmag.com/martha-king-the-grand-dame-of-aviation-ground-schools/ Noel

Bullitt starring Seve McQueen is one of my favorite movies with one of my favorite actors. I watched for about 8th or 9th time on TCM last evening. Of course I like the car chase scene. And San Francisco is the city of my birth and where I was raised up to the age of 17. So seeing locations I am intimately familiar with is fun. I could tell the car chase scene was filmed in segments and edited by someone without regard for continuity of chase as it instantly jumped to places several miles apart. But that doesn't take away from excitement of the chase. Lieutenant Bullitt's character is interesting. He is his own man and it's evident that he is given a job a…

This is a video you guys might like..

For years I've enjoyed orange marmalade on my pancakes, French toast, and English muffins. But I was looking for a change the last time I was at the supermarket. What kind of marmalade did they have besides orange? Nothing. I went online to Amazon and found lemon marmalade. I just ordered some because I'm partial to lemons. Every morning I sqeeze a half lemon into a half glass of hot water. I like the tartness and my health nut daughter said it's good for me. I'll let you know how the lemon marmalade turns out. Or maybe someone here has already tried it? Noel

Watched an old movie last night with Robert Mitchum called 'Home From the Hill'. An excellent flick. Near the beginning of the movie they took a young guy out on a snipe hunt. It was beautifully done. Boy, did that bring back memories. I've been on a few snipe hunts myself. Some of you old timers might remember them. I wonder if they still go out on snipe hunts? I doubt it unless there is a computer game called 'Snipe Hunt'. But what would be the point of that? Noel

For spacecraft. https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion#toggle-gdpr Noel

General relativity also doesn’t explain the future of the universe. There are interesting theories that say the universe is going to collapse again into another Big Bang, called the Big Crunch universe. But we don’t know because general relativity is incomplete. If we find a complete theory, we could get answers to these kinds of questions. I have always thought of the universe as being sort of a cosmic yoyo; expanding and contracting into another singularity followed by another big bang; having done so forever in the past and continuing to do so forever in the future. https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mexico-cosmologist-hunts-for-cracks-in-einsteins-gravity-the…

I remember those 4 for dollar hamburgers and 5 cent soda pop.

This morning my wife said she was going to the beauty parlor to get her cut. Back track to Thanksgiving. I started growing my beard back. Yesterday morning I shaved it off. They do become quite bothersome. Kept the stash though. Anyway she never noticed it yesterday. So she came in about an hour ago and I said, "Well, did you get your cut?" "She said didn't you notice?" I said, "Oh yeah, it looks nice." Then I asked her if she noticed anything different about me. She said no. I said, "I shaved my beard off yesterday morning." She left the room on a huff. She'll get over it by Monday. In our 58 years of marriage I'll bet I have grown and shav…

Starting in the Electrical Equipment Bay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5d0Y2JfSE

It only took watching this video two times, to make me suspicious now that everything around me is actually a cake... 🤨

Let's see how long before this thread gets shut down.... Did Benjamin Franklyn really invent an Electric Harmony ?

Do any of your cats have starnge habits? I have my iPhone flat on my desk with a cord plugged into the charger. When my Russian Blue is sitting on my desk and the phone rings she gets up and lays on top of it. I have to push her away to answer the phone. Noel

Please join me in welcoming Dave Gray (micstatic) to the AVSIM moderating team. He's a long-time simmer and has been very helpful to many here--we're very happy to have him on-board. Regards

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-test-hydrogen-fueled-engines-on-a380/index.html

Brownian motion is one of those things that's been stuck in my mental lint trap for years. I remember reading a science fiction novel when I was a teen where a Starship used Brownian motion as the basis for its random evasive maneuvers. Later I remember finally reading Fantastic Voyage and thinking about Brownian motion rocking the Proteus as it waited in the syringe before being injected into the bloodstream of the doctor. Now this, energy from Brownian motion, which was supposed to be impossible..... Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

I was thinking all day yesterday about a Mars colony. Not an exploration team that would eventually return to earth, but a colony for people to live in for generations while waiting for a starship to carry them to who knows where? The colony would, of course, feed the people and provide the breathable air and maintain a proper temperature and provide the basic necessities to sustain life. You would need doctors and dentists and most certainly psychiatrists to minister to their physical and mental health. And speaking of ministering a Christian minister, a Rabbi and a Buddhist monk to minister their religious beliefs. What would the economy be like?…

As this is the season for run-ups here, I am wondering if there is a formal procedure or checklist for them and how the Captain announces them to the passengers. There is one A380 which comes to CYYZ and sits on the ground for seven hours until takeoff, so it does run-ups almost every time.

Anyone see the new Netflix documentary on the Boeing 737 Max yet? The title is called, "DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing." Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-IJkUbAxY. It was an interesting documentary, even featuring Captain Sully Sullenberger multiple times and his remarks about the 737 Max. Probably the most memorable line in the documentary was the interview with Captain Dan Carey, from the Allied Pilot Association, an pilot's union. When the 737 Max was grounded in the US, they still had to fly many of the grounded 737 Max to storage facilities. About the storage facilities, Captain Dan Carey said pilots were telling him, "they don't wa…

I'd heard of this before, but to be honest hadn't really paid to much attention to it. Think maybe I should have. seems to be based on feasible peer reviewed science. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_I_Phase_II/Mach_Effects_for_In_Space_Propulsion_Interstellar_Mission/