Well, there's one way to find out

Made the leading comment that most women find bearded men more manly and virile, but don't want to date them. She didn't answer one way or the other.

Maybe need to get one of them "Free Mustache Rides" T-shirts.

It looks like they had fun.

Of course it will fly. Anything will fly with a high enough HP to weight ratio. When we got into flying combat missions we would build a basic airplane with no airfoil wings and just a big elevator and rudder. Hang a high RPM .40 engine and go. Some only lasted a few minutes, but they flew.

Good Hump day morning for many.

Air deflection is a form of airfoil, but not a very efficient one.

Yep. My first airplane was just a cheap plastic coated colorful cardboard thing with zero airfoil and fairly large control surfaces. It had a little .Cox 049 engine and it "flew" just fine. Much like a paper airplane with power. The strings were pretty short and I would get dizzy as hell if I filled up the fuel tank. If I flew in a open field that had not been mowed when I crashed the grass would absorb much of the impact and I had no damage. (Insert geezer voice) Why back in my day we had no electronic games or gadgets, and only a black and white TV with three channels! We had to go outside and play.

morning all. just two more to go.

Taking the mutt to get groomed today. Had a dream last night that they groomed him like a schnauzer and the missus was not happy. She is very adamant that they just need to neaten him up a little but keep his same look, no schnauzer styling for him!

Better listen to the better half. She still has time to pick up a load of coal for you.

Well, they are from Australia where things like that are cheap. Or so they say.

A flat plate is a listed airfoil in the X-Plane software from Laminar Research. It is great for going fast.

As Glen said, even an F-4 Phantom will fly because they have 2 huge engines. The same engines they had on the first supersonic bomber.

Sid, I have two extra radios that I have picked up over the years so I told my daughter to look at FT and either pick a design or design one of her own since that stuff is so easy to work with. I did suggest something like a Storch that flies slow as her first design. That way when it crashes (as they all do eventually) it will barley crash.

Joe, good luck on your upcoming endeavors. Keep us up to date as much as you are allowed.

The interview is tentatively scheduled for early February. They interview guys 6-8 at a time and just wait until they have enough guys.
I need to get to the range and polish off my iron sight skills. I've got the PT squared away now, including swim, and my handspoon qual is pretty friggin solid.

Traveling gig?

Yup, gotta renew my passport and I'm waiting on a ton of paperwork from USCG before I'd actually be able to work. Those guys are finnicky about people getting paid to play with spoons on the water.

I survived monitoring the obstacle course. I chose to wear more casual clothes, however.

The school has 2nd through 5th grades so I interacted with kids of different ages. What always strikes me is how innocent they are. They don't have any notions of skin color or who is wearing what. They don't care. They see others as just other kids.

Too bad that usually changes as one grows up. :(

Guns? Water? Lets call it duck hunting!!!

Didn't really notice differences in color until High School where mainly the black kids banned together and treated others differently, not the other way around.

Walked down the hallway that was considered the black hangout walking to lunch in 9th grade. Didn't really think much about it until al black guy stepped out of the crowd punching my friend in the face. I immediately went after him, but he was faster than me. i then challenge every one in the hallway to take me on face to face without this punch and run chicken **** bull ****. They all just stood and looked at me real wide eyed. We went on to lunch. When we walked down that hall later, we were closely watched, but nobody did anything.

A friend and I was jumped by 6 black guys with knives as we went into a bathroom. Turned out bad for them. Friend shoved me out the door yelling to go get teachers. When got there he had all six pinned in a stall under his foot and the knives in the sink. He was a karate student.

Also got a gun pulled on me in science class by a block guy that was supposed to be my lab partner. He got expelled and I got a new partner.

In Junior hige one of my close friends was a black guy until his Mom found out I was white and told him I couldn't be is friend. We didn't understand why she didn't want us to be friends.

Bussing was a very educational time to go to school in basically a segregated city.

Then there was the whole thing about getting screwed out of a music career because the predominately white band parents did not want a black band director. The retiring band director and the black band director both apologized to me because they couldn't get the ******* the parents got hired hired to go thru with their plans to have me solo with the local philharmonic. I was drum major and aide for him for orchestra and played 3 instruments in stage band. On sax was 1st chair Allstate, Tristate, and made 1+ on my solo constests and second chair clarinet in junior philharmonic and I didn't even play clarinet, but he made me last chair and gave me "B"s for all those classes. Went to counsellors and when they confronted him about a musician in his class with all the accolades getting Bs he said it was a mistake and changed them to As. What an *******!

****ing racism and stupidity! Pardon my ****.

Joe, I can't really blame them for having everyone checked out and if I were along I would be glad everyone else was vetted. Otherwise I would be watching them too!

Wayne, the main thing is you survived!

Richard-I think the fact that you grew up in the South made it much different. I don't mean to make you out to be an old dude but tensions were probably still high when you were in school.

We had 3 black students at my high school. One was flaming gay, one was a complete jock, and one was a rocker. The high school on the other end of town was predominantly black students.

My favorite teacher was a black lady. I didn't see her as black at the time I just liked her as my 5th grade teacher. Oddly, my sister bought her house last year.

Went to 7th thru 12th grade thru the bussing desegregation period while the city was and still is basically segregated. Kids were bussed around to make the schools more desegregated. It was crazy because eventually the parents moved to neighborhoods to get their kids in the schools they wanted anyway. And the really white kids just went to private school.

Think they went to having All the 5th graders going to the same school.

The biggest problem I saw was the parents that got grade school and junior high punishment/spankings stopped. They were the real problem.

racist? Me? No I just hate stupid people!

In the 9th grade I was one of the two white kids or as we were called the "Haoles" It was pure hell and they had no tolerance of us.
In the 10th grade it was about 50-50 so the locals or "Mokes" were quite tolerant since they did not have a overwhelming majority. No problems.
In the 11th and 12th grade was the only school I ever attended more than one year. It was about 75% black but no real problems at all. Everyone knew me as the guy with the camera and they wanted their picture taken for the yearbook or the school newspaper. I wasted a lot of film and often did not even load film just to keep everyone happy.

I carried around a heavy old Hassleblad in high school.