If I had George's power plant, I probably could. Almost. Before the engine was in, two of us could pick it up on one end to move it around the garage.

Yea, engines tend to be a bit heavy. I doubt they will ever have a really small power-plant that can make enough power to be really practical. The biggest issue as always is all the heat the the laws of physics say will be produced to make power. I heard someone say that the power module that The Terminator had was going to require a radiator the size of a train. And the Terminator had redundant power modules.

Brother Bob says there are plans for a single point energy source that is the size of a shoebox and makes lots of electricity. But your can't get it because of the conspiracy. Government is shutting the web sites that sells the plans down and they are building them and storing them for government use when the power grids go down. It's a conspiracy so it's gotta be true!

Just before got out of R/C planes had a .40 cuin R/C supercharged nitro methane engine that put out 2 hp. Thought that was a lot of hp for less than .5 cuin even if it was burning nitro methane.
The idea was to get the most power for the least weight so you could fly what was called 3D aerobatics. Basically directing the prop thrust instead of flying the aerodynamic surfaces.

2 stroke I assume?

Yes, 2 stroke, but the 4 stroke engines were fun too. They hand more torque so you turned a bigger prop at lower rpm. There was even a 4 stroke with belt driven cam. When the belts started breaking they got unpopular fast.

Everyone dreamed of the super expensive 5 cylinder radial motors. Never saw one in person.

Talking to the local hobby shop guy seems most are going battery powered and flying has moved to parks instead of flying clubs and fields. Too, bad, because the field and camaraderie was a fun part of it.

The small jet engines came on the scene about the time I got out. Didn't seem like much fun to me because they were so fast all you really had time to do was turn before it got too far away to see.

Richard, get the 928 cleaned up and bring it to the dealership on Saturday with a for sale sign on it.

David at the dealership told me I should. At the last one they sold someone's 911 turbo.

I escaped from mowing the yard today...my boss wasn't looking where I was hiding. Maybe tomorrow I won't be so lucky, but that's another day.

Richard, get her sold. Make some room in your garage for the Taycan*.



* What an awful name for a car.

Wouldn't really want an all electric vehicle. The Macan,,,"tiger" is very poopular. They claim Taycan pronounced Tie•con, is from Turkish meaning quick and lively like a foal. Not Trashcan.

When I went to lunch with my brother Tom, NOT BOB Monday, he used the bluetooth in his Ford Escapé to read and answer 4 texts on the way home using Siri. Remember when he used to talk on the phone just about any time he was driving. Now he has Siri read the texts and then tells Siri the answer then to send. Said he is afraid of someone hitting him that them saying he was texting.

Did teach him that when Sire asks if you are want to send it, instead of saying "No." Siri cancels the text. Say "Add," followed by whatever you want to add to the text, then OK or Yes to send it.

Told him the last girl I was dating quit dating or even talking to me because I refused to talk to her on the phone (even hands free) while driving. Heck, talking to her with her in the car I missed turns.

Hi all,

I'm getting to catch up on the last few weeks posts from 11000 meters above sea level.

Ooh, the A4 I booked got upgraded to a SQ5

When my BoxsterS was getting the motor replaced the dealership gave me a Q something for 2 months. It was the best Q they had at the time. Think the dealership had them as loaners to try to generate sales. They had nice boxsters for a while, but people kept burning up the clutches.

One of Hertz Oz adrenaline collection. It’s got some poke.

What’s it look like?

morning all. might be a slow day today.

Morning all. Busy day for me. Gotta fly again if the clouds will let us. Right now the clouds are all 11,000 feet and thin so no problem. Lets hope it stays that way. I use an App on my phone called ForeFlight and it is pretty amazing. It has the charts for every airport in North America in it, can pull up the METARS (pilot speak for weather) for the airport, and it tracks our location, and hooks up to the airplanes ADS-B radio so we get real time traffic and we can "see" the other airplanes in the area that have ADS-B. As yet they don't HAVE to have it, but most aircraft do. And they cane "see" us. It is nice to get a visual. The ADS-B will send a voice warning to us if anything is within a mile at an altitude that is close. It shows traffic of the airlines at 35,000 feet and we can ignore them. There are lots of pipeline patrol aircraft flying at 500 feet and we can ignore them as well.

Getting really tired of fixing things this new "Server Manger" breaks. And his excuse is...oh, I was busy. It is not even anything he should be changing no matter how busy he gets. And the people over us are too busy to get involved.

As an example: The old server manager he replaced set up some software with his email instead of a utility email. I disable the former guys email. The software stopped working. I reenable the former guys email, it starts working again. Tell the new server guy (it's his job) he needes to fix the licenses. In order to get the software licenses updated the new guy makes a gone guy's email a proxy address for his account. That breaks our Active Directory sync with Office365 because two objects now have the same email. We start having problems with settings, permissions, and passwords not syncing. Yikes! All he had to do was forward the gone guys email to his to take care of this kind of stuff. The worst part, is he is setting the new software contact info to be his and NOT a utility account so we will have the same licensing issue when he leaves. Arrrrgh.

Even though I am a server admin, nothing is registered to my account. I use a utility accounts. If this guy just changes his password everything setup with his account will quit working.
Also instead of looking up utility account passwords we keep in a database only IT managers have access to, he changes the password so he can use the utility account on something else. It then breaks the authentication on anything else that utility account is being used for. Again, getting tired of this.

Oh, yeah was told Freshservice does the hardware and software tracking, but they like using landsweeper. Looked at me very dumbfounded when I asked if we had anything that pushed software and updates to computers based on what users were assigned. At over 800 employees it seems like that would save a lot of helpdesk time.


Oh well, guess that must be like the new network guy setting up a new VPN that requires all traffic go thru it instead of splitting remote VPN traffic. That way, no matter how fast you connection you are limited to the 40mbps of the company network for the entire interent. Think it;s only 40mpbs because they are using an old 10/100 ethernet swtich to put the VPN on. If I use our old split tunner VPN I get my full 100mbps of the internet while only the company network is 40mbps with the VPN. I don't like all my traffic going thru the company VPN just because that means they can log my internet browsing.

If anyone knows an AS400 XA programmer, we are looking for one after this last random drug screening. They are even talking about a signing bonus to bring someone in. Seems nobody wants to come to Oklahoma. We had someone coming from India, but when it got down to it, he couldn't get in the country.

job security.

When I was engineering department supervisor I had a draftsman that worked for me. He wrote down a log of everything he did as job security. He got moved to the Assembly department because he just wasn't very good at math. He worked there a few years doing the same thing logging everything he did for job security. In a few years they let him go. His logs didn't help a bit in either case.

When I have issues with managers etc I usually just put my head down and go on. Brother Bob tells me I should document everything. Told him this is a right to work state, ie they can fire me for any reason they want or none at all, and If i was working somewhere that used a bunch of BS to get me fired, I would not want to work there anyway let alone try to keep my job with a bunch of logs they can ignore anyway. So would be a waste of time to keep some sort of logs. Bob does not understand that.

Years ago at the photolab I worked at for many years the owner wanted to hire a production manager. He tried to get me to do it for no extra money. I was slammed with work on my own and did not have time to babysit the other employees all the time. I was always having to stop my production to repair a processor, or show someone that should know already, how to do their job.

Anyway he hired a "production manager" and told the guy, leave Glen alone, just manage everyone else. Within a month one of the guys that was a great ssset to the company told the owner if he did not fire that manager, he was going to physically hurt that manager. Several other employees stood behind him and said they would help. Lets just say he was unpopular. The boss fired the dude. Then he proceeded to tell the boss that he can't fire him. He was given 5 minutes to clear the property of the guy that was going to hurt him was going to be asked to remove that manager. The dumb ass tried to find a lawyer to sue the company, but was told he had no employment contract and can be fired at anytime for no reason. Employment at will.