Stijn!!
 

That makes sense. Main thing, rules of the contest. At least the “rocket police” don’t come arrest ya if you just “happen” to get to orbital velocity of 17,600 mph or so.

Think maybe the rules are recoverable to keep from adding to the space junk. Didn't the group that put the Tesla up do a test accurately landing the boosters before the put the car up?

There was a couple of dudes in the local R/C club that were also in the local model rocketry club. They said they had ceilings and events with higher ceilings specifically approved for the area and times. Kinda remember the ceiling on the special events was 80,000 ft. Think the ceilings had something to do with air traffic control. They gave a presentation to the R/C club. It was interesting the differences in sub-sonic and super-sonic rockets. A lot different than when I was a kid building and shooting of my little Estes engine rockets.

There was a hobby shop 1 miles from my house that the front had model rocket stuff. Tubes, nose cones, balsa, paints, engines, chutes, kits, motors. In the back there was a big slot car track. Interesting didn't sell any slot car stuff, or we probably would have done that too.

We did get into the HO scale Aurora/Tyco slot cars. We would pool our tracks at someone's house hand have a huge track with 4 lanes and the same number of the same size turns for each lane. One guy's mom would let us move all the furniture out of their formal living room and take it over for a few weeks at a time. Otherwise it was mostly garages.

We would mix parts from all our cars to get the fastest car. Mine was a Z28 and usually the fastest. When I bought my 2nd car I tried to buy a Z28, my Dad wouldn't let me. But he did let me get that Plymouth Satellite SebringPlus which was probably faster. Had a Road Runner body for my HO cars but the rear fenders would cause it to fly off the track on corners with guard rails where the Z28 would stay on the track using the guard rails to take the turns faster.

I still wonder what really happened to the R/C plane contest.
The contest was for the widest flying envelope with a 40 size motor, 3 points for every controllable MPH under 25 and 1 point for every MPH over 25. You submitted a video of it flying fastest and slowest over a marked distance, and plans. The R/C magazines even published a couple of entries while the contest was running. One entered by Burt Ratan. Looked like they were looking for a better design to hover, and go 200mph with a 40 size motor. Couple of months before the deadline for entry and the contest went hush hush. No mention of the contest, winner, or anything. Like the contest never existed. And there was like $20,000 prize with a couple of aerospace contractors putting up the monies. They were supposed to publish the winning design with plans.

Burrr Morning..

Perhaps it will help thinking of summer...
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Brother Bob had a car wreck Wednesday. We were not contacted until yesterday evening. He is in the hospital in Tulsa. Says his back and right arm hurts. He does not know where the wreck happened or where is mini van is. We assume his car was impounded.

Would have been nice to know sooner since we are going to have to call around to find out where his mini-van is and go get the darn thing before it runs up more impound bill than it's worth. Especially if it can't be driven.

Oh yeah, and his van is full of some chick's stuff from his apartment building that he was helping move. Not enough money to eat, but he can buy gas to help some young chick move cause he thinks a 20 something chick might give an 80 yo man some.

YUCK!

That white fluffy stuff is falling out of the sky. We are only supposed to get a few inches and so far nothing is sticking to the roads.

Every night when I go to bed, I plug my phone into the computer USB port that is HOT even when the computer is asleep. However, if the computer of OFF, as it was last night, the phone does not charge and can get down to 2% overnight. So good lesson, if the computer is off, don't use it as a charging source, it will not charge.

Fortunately the phone charges fast when on a regular charger.

Yep, my phone cord is plugged into a powerstrip.

Summer is definitely over.
Yesterday morning I turned on the heater for the first time, it was 65 degrees in the house when I got up. Didn't open the windows until noon.

When I got to work this AM it was in the high 50's (by the ocean), put on a jacket.
I stopped wearing flip-flops weeks ago, except for taking out the trash and doing laundry in the garage and stuff.
Sux.

Morning all. Back to the cold office for the week.

When we lived in El Centro there were several months where you could not take a cold shower. Bummer that it was always the hot months when you wanted to take a cold shower. The kid didn't even cool off much playing in the sprinkler.

This weekend sucked. Needed to replace the thermostat in the Durango because it had a 180* (195* is much better for heat in the winter here and that is what the book calls for anyway) in it and the gasket was leaking. Long story shot, bolt broke in the manifold and went downhill from there. Started Saturday around 1:00. Finished last night about 8:00. At least now I have a lot of new bits for the drill and Dremel. Well, I had new bits. Some of the new ones broke also.

We still see some of these summer looks paddle boarding around the harbor. Works for me.

Yeah, the mornings are cool here near the coast, but the temps have coming up quickly to the low-to-mid-70s. Lots of sunshine. :)

With peaks of 2,500 degrees for short bursts. The fires look pretty bad, but of course all we have is the media. They will stand in front of the one house torn up in a tornado, and make it sound like the entire state was flattened. They will go stand in a ditch to make a flood look deeper.

Here's an article about their completion at bezerkely:

UC Berkeley group aims to be 1st college team to send rocket into space



USC's team:

https://mach5lowdown.com/2018/09/27/traveler-iii-heading-to-space/

That is cool Sammy. I bet you are proud to know yer kid is on the team. A bunch of Rocket Surgeons. Cool Stuff.

That is cool. Keep us posted on the future flights.

Oh man, the original Spider-Man died today, 95.

Dang software engineers!

I use a program from Acronis for backing up my computer. All I want is boot drive backed up. I have 4 hard drives in the system Drive C is of course the boot drive. It gets backed up to Drive D. That is all D is for, the backup of C: (which is a mirrored drive as well) and then I have two other drives for data storage only. Lots of Terabytes. And I take those over to my business partners place to store on the Raid drives when the project is done and paid for.

For some reason the backup program wants to so sniffing around and suddenly it finds files that are not part of the backup, and ads them into the que to backup. Pretty soon the backup drive fills up and errors out with a drive full error. Well Duh, it is backup up redundant copies of itself and stuff I don't want backed up AGAIN. :(

Found out the other day if I select a second hard drive for Apple's Time Machine backup software, it makes two separate backups so you have 2 back copies. It also lets you go thru and exlude both drives and files from the backups. And I still use another back software to make bootable backups so I have 3 backups.

Like Time Machine because it presents you with your desktop then you can go to the folder a file is in and then go back in time for revisions of one or more files to restore.

Do the bootable in case something happens to the boot drive, can just boot off that backup then replace the drive. Usually replace with an backup machine that I restore the boot drive from a time machine backup, bring it back into service, and use the machine that the drive died as my replacement machine.

The first commandment of computers is Easy is Hard. Meaning is something is easy to do on the computer is was a lot of work to make it that way. The second is 1,2,3 many backups.

Another winter weather advisory for 3-6 inches starting early am tomorrow.
Man this is going to be a brutal winter if this keeps up.
Another one coming in for Fri.-Sat.

Opening weekend for deer here. Could be worse. A few years ago the low was -19*.

Sat NOV 17 Partly Cloudy 32°/17° 20% chance precip NNW 14 mph 69%

Sun NOV 18 Sunny 30°/21° 0% chance precip WSW 10 mph 53%