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  • Birthday 08/16/1953

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    Columbus, OH
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  1. Just don't get any ideas about usurping my spot at last place.
  2. Great airplane. Put many miles on one though haven't flown it in a while (so many aircraft, so little time).
  3. Is that the one with the dog inside?
  4. jgf

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    Lol, I've spent an eternity trying to learn to correct rivers along the side of mountains, railroad tracks across runways, coastlines running out in the water, coastal cities half submerged, a dam in the middle of a field.... which is correct, the river or the buildings
  5. Fine with me. Being retired I have no schedule, no timetable, no bedtime, no alarm clock.
  6. A link to the prerequisite files would be appreciated.
  7. Meigs is fine, though only about 300 miles from here. Perhaps a good excuse for an ultralight flight, or even an airship (my F-16 could be there in about half an hour, lol).
  8. Boring ... monotonous .... soporific We removed the wings from my Beech D17 and loaded her into a C-5. Flew at around 35k ft from Perth to Hawaii to Columbus. (No desire to follow my path from Columbus to Perth in reverse.)
  9. Only works if the engineer is also the company head. Otherwise they are looked on by those boardroom bumblers as glorified mechanics. (At the ripe old age of 25 I found myself VP of Engineering for Western Electric. Was quite proud of myself ...and came to loathe that job with a passion. Couldn't have been happier when my contract expired.) This has been true for ages. People have thought of many things where it was years, or even centuries, before the technology existed to implement those thoughts. Steam power was first demonstrated nearly 2000 years ago; it took 1800 years for someone to build a practical steam engine. The first submarine was demonstrated in the 1770s, 150 years later submarines were practical. With the geometric expansion of technology today we are bound to have some developments hitting the market before they are "ready for prime time". I've heard it said you must be the first, the best, or the cheapest, otherwise you're a footnote. On a personal note, some of my income is still from two proprietary patents; the circuits were developed back in the 1920s, I made them work in the 1970s.
  10. Have engineering schools stopped teaching Murphy's Law
  11. The continuing saga of a nitwit and his aircraft. Have made it to the nether regions of Scotland, sightseeing Scapa Flow (switched to a civilian Cierva, modernized with lights and radio; the RAF aircraft only has the front beacon) What the sailors saw Heading north through the islands at a blazing 55kt A good spot for a respite Approach at 30kt BTW G-ACIN was a real aircraft
  12. I would enable UT USA again, then remove a handful of files at a time until the OOM disappears. If it's not an interaction between UT and some other file, or between several UT files, you should be able to isolate the offending file; then either live without that file or, if it is corrupt, get a replacement.
  13. Been known to duck under an occasional bridge myself
  14. The ultimate goal is merely to have fun....
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