Dad wrote:
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> "Rufus" > wrote in message
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>> Dad wrote:
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>>> "Rufus" > wrote in message
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>>>> Dad wrote:
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>>>>> Never had to worry about stall margin on a motorcycle but one of our
>>>>> club members has a '78 jet turbine powered Corvette that may need
>>>>> to be
>>>>> aware of its importance.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.ncrsquebec.com/events/jet.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...heh...somebody *did* it! Back in another lifetime when I was
>>>> working in the GE ASO at Ontario airport me and the guys in the shop
>>>> came up with a way to put a GE T64 in my '82 Firebird...that's 4000+
>>>> horses...
>>>>
>>>> ...that we couldn't figure out was what to do for brakes...and how to
>>>> keep the exhaust from chewing up the pavement.
>>>>
>>>>> Now tell me again why you would want a metal key sticking out of the
>>>>> dash waiting on your body parts to come kiss it? I'll take the push
>>>>> button any day, besides who wants to dig into his pocket/purse for
>>>>> a key
>>>>> to start a car? Also love to get out and walk away and know that it is
>>>>> locked but will open when you approach.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd rather have the key sticking out of the steering column, but
>>>> that's just me...
>>>>
>>>>> I'll wait to see how the electric steering works without power
>>>>> before I
>>>>> condemn it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...and all you have to do to know how fly by wire steering will work
>>>> with the power out is look at the F-16! Hydrazene secondaries,
>>>> anyone?!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> - Rufus
>>>
>>> Don't have to look at it, I've flown in it, and that of course, is not
>>> the only plane to fly by wire. Didn't they do that with the Apollo way
>>> back in 1964/5, then the F8 in 1972 with no backup system?
>>>
>>> Dad
>>
>> ...that wasn't flying...that was falling - with style!
>>
> Falling vertically was fun, rollover was not.
>>

....free falling is even more fun. Getting drug across the ground in a
40 knot wind because you can't get your handle off the Velcro, not so
much...

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- Rufus