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Post by Jim on Oct 28, 2020 4:01:27 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Oct 29, 2020 0:27:01 GMT 9
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Galileo's Hypothesis Do you remember learning about Galileo, the father of physics, who was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564 and lived until 1642. He discovered the Rings of Saturn, among other things? Galileo also discovered that any object falling to earth, falls at the same rate.
He mentioned that a cannonball and a feather, if dropped from the same height, will touch the ground at the same time provided there is no air resistance. I always found this hard to believe.
Even Galileo had difficulty explaining it for quite a long time. Four centuries later, with the current technology, it has been experimentally demonstrated.
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Post by Jim on Oct 29, 2020 2:02:50 GMT 9
From Capt. Brown shoes, (Roger DeEntremont) a 27th FIS Six Driver and long time email friend met on the earliest version of Pat's World- before 2004. Subject: USAF B36 airplane
I graduated from high school in June of 1950.
Three days later the Korean War started.
I Joined the USAF in October 1950 and became a B-25 mechanic at HQ 8th AF at Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Texas.
There were 109 B-36s based at Carswell at that time.
The takeoff and landing in this video was at Carswell.
On takeoff the B-36 lined up on runway 18 with Lake Worth in the background.
I used to sail on that lake quite often.
Also on takeoff the large buildings on the right of the takeoff scene was the Convair plant where they made the B-36s.
The B-25s were on the north end of the restricted ramp.
The B-36s took up the rest of the space and their area was a double restricted zone requiring a special permit to enter.
My ramp pass was only good for a small section of the north end of the flight line.
The B-36s had heavy water hydrogen bombs which had to be replenished every so often.
When that happened, the bomb bay area was hidden behind screens during the process.
I had a good time at Carswell. I really enjoyed being a B-25 mechanic.
As my enlistment was ending, I applied for Aviation Cadets.
I got an invitation to become a cadet a year or so after I was discharged and assigned to a reserve outfit at Hanscom Field outside of Boston.
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Post by pat perry on Nov 3, 2020 5:46:26 GMT 9
While you wait for the election returns on Tuesday, watch this video.
"If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?"
Excerpt: The size and age of the universe seem to not agree with one another. Astronomers have determined that the universe is nearly 14 billion years old and yet its diameter is 92 billion light years across. How can both of those numbers possibly be true? In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln tells you how.
Yes the universe is still expanding after 13.7 Billion years. And there is some of it we will never see beyond the observable universe because the light hasn't arrived here yet and we won't be here when it does.
Makes us feel kind of small, doesn't it. LOL!
Last night, after another politically biased edition of 60 Minutes, CBS ran the movie Star Trek Beyond (grossing $345M box office) leading to a TV series on CBS All Access. It reminded me that Gene Roddenberry started the Star Trek TV/movie series and inspired a lot of scientists and technology engineers to "invent" the future we are living in today. Thanks Gene! You even factored in journalism bias into your episodes of Star Trek.
Pat P.
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Post by pat perry on Nov 17, 2020 11:56:05 GMT 9
Hi Guys. MOW posted this video on Facebook today.
See if it reminds you of anything.
Pat P.
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Post by Jim on Dec 18, 2020 9:57:47 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Dec 30, 2020 2:32:23 GMT 9
How do you stop a million pound aircraft at 200 MPH in a Rejected Take Off (RTO).
Boeing 747-8 performs ultimate rejected takeoff with worn out brakes
Pat P.
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Post by LBer1568 on Dec 30, 2020 4:33:44 GMT 9
Pat, While I was still Active Duty I worked in Flight Simulator Program Office at WPAFB. I was responsible for testing all Cargo Simulator Projects. I was considered a Flight Test Team Member and got to ride in several different Aircraft including C-130, C-141, C-5 and Early C-17. I got a call one day from the Wing Test Pilot of C-5 who asked if I wanted to be part of history. Sure, why not. So I suited up and went over to Reserve Wing area on opposite side of base. The plan was to take a C-5B at max take-off weight and after airborne refuel to over a million pounds total weight. As we took on fuel the aircraft kept breaking off contact with refueling probe because we could barely keep up with KC-10. So basically the KC-10 pilot had to back-up to connect. But we did break the record, although we did not break the million pound goal. It just was too much for the plane to handle in safe flight. Later on they upgraded the engines to newest GE 747 type engines which increases the thrust and weight limits. Worst part of that mission was landing. We had to use up all that extra fuel before landing. So we went on race track type flight going from WPAFB over to Columbus and then back to Indy. It took over 3 hours at max throttle to get weight down to safe landing. It was still at max landing weight because we had a lot of ballast to bring up gross weight. But the best missions I took part in was for the Air refueling trainer the Air refueling part task trainer. A little known fact is both C-141 and C-5 were very similar and cockpits, windows etc are basically same parts with just a larger center section for C-5. So I got to fly in both C-5/C-141 with camera and sound recorder refueling behind both KC-135 and KC-10. We used the recordings to help manufacturer make simulation as close as possible to real life. The Trainer was used for training pilots from about 200 feet behind tanker to hook-up and fuel transfer. I was part of source selection for trainer and we had two completely different proposals. We chose the trainer with scale model replicas of both KC tankers. The other proposal was a digital representation of tankers. We went to London to see the British/Lockheed teams digital approach. Then we saw a mock up of the Reflectone's (Company in Tampa) approach which was so much more realistic as we didn't get the resolution from the digital images back in mid 80's. Today's digital images would have been much more realistic. We chose the Reflectone version and then we went through hell as no one had ever made optical systems large enough to produce. We broke about 5 extremely costly mirrors during manufacturing. After polishing the needed curves we had to cut mirrors and normal cutting techniques were not suited to large scale. So we ended up using a very high pressure sand blasting cutter designed specifically for this project. First try at cutting ended up cutting the floor under mirror. Too much cutting force. So company moved cutting tool to garage floor and put scrap metal below cutting to reduce the cutting material. We finally started to see finished products and made 10 trainers. The models were made by a guy who built large RC airplanes and we even had a lighting system on model to simulate the refueling signals on rear of tankers. They are used to guide pilot into position behind tanker. Those were the good old days. Lots of high tech devices and fun to play with. I worked the C-130 simulator at McChord AFB back from 1989-1983 and logged a lot of hours in simulators. Then I transferred back to WPAFB and became responsible to acceptance testing on C-130 Sims and visual systems. I made an estimate of time I was behind stick in those C-130. It was over 3,000 hours. That's over 7 years. Our initial testing of C-130 sim took a year between Binghamton NY and Altus AFB. The visual system was made in Daytona Beach FL, across the street from Race Track.
Gas is still up at $2.25. Temp is up to 3, the high of the day. Lorin
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Post by Jim on Dec 30, 2020 6:27:13 GMT 9
Pat, While I was still Active Duty I worked in Flight Simulator Program Office at WPAFB. I was responsible for testing all Cargo Simulator Projects. I was considered a Flight Test Team Member and got to ride in several different Aircraft including C-130, C-141, C-5 and Early C-17. I got a call one day from the Wing Test Pilot of C-5 who asked if I wanted to be part of history. Sure, why not. So I suited up and went over to Reserve Wing area on opposite side of base. The plan was to take a C-5B at max take-off weight and after airborne refuel to over a million pounds total weight. As we took on fuel the aircraft kept breaking off contact with refueling probe because we could barely keep up with KC-10. So basically the KC-10 pilot had to back-up to connect. But we did break the record, although we did not break the million pound goal. It just was too much for the plane to handle in safe flight. Later on they upgraded the engines to newest GE 747 type engines which increases the thrust and weight limits. Worst part of that mission was landing. We had to use up all that extra fuel before landing. So we went on race track type flight going from WPAFB over to Columbus and then back to Indy. It took over 3 hours at max throttle to get weight down to safe landing. It was still at max landing weight because we had a lot of ballast to bring up gross weight. But the best missions I took part in was for the Air refueling trainer the Air refueling part task trainer. A little known fact is both C-141 and C-5 were very similar and cockpits, windows etc are basically same parts with just a larger center section for C-5. So I got to fly in both C-5/C-141 with camera and sound recorder refueling behind both KC-135 and KC-10. We used the recordings to help manufacturer make simulation as close as possible to real life. The Trainer was used for training pilots from about 200 feet behind tanker to hook-up and fuel transfer. I was part of source selection for trainer and we had two completely different proposals. We chose the trainer with scale model replicas of both KC tankers. The other proposal was a digital representation of tankers. We went to London to see the British/Lockheed teams digital approach. Then we saw a mock up of the Reflectone's (Company in Tampa) approach which was so much more realistic as we didn't get the resolution from the digital images back in mid 80's. Today's digital images would have been much more realistic. We chose the Reflectone version and then we went through hell as no one had ever made optical systems large enough to produce. We broke about 5 extremely costly mirrors during manufacturing. After polishing the needed curves we had to cut mirrors and normal cutting techniques were not suited to large scale. So we ended up using a very high pressure sand blasting cutter designed specifically for this project. First try at cutting ended up cutting the floor under mirror. Too much cutting force. So company moved cutting tool to garage floor and put scrap metal below cutting to reduce the cutting material. We finally started to see finished products and made 10 trainers. The models were made by a guy who built large RC airplanes and we even had a lighting system on model to simulate the refueling signals on rear of tankers. They are used to guide pilot into position behind tanker. Those were the good old days. Lots of high tech devices and fun to play with. I worked the C-130 simulator at McChord AFB back from 1989-1983 and logged a lot of hours in simulators. Then I transferred back to WPAFB and became responsible to acceptance testing on C-130 Sims and visual systems. I made an estimate of time I was behind stick in those C-130. It was over 3,000 hours. That's over 7 years. Our initial testing of C-130 sim took a year between Binghamton NY and Altus AFB. The visual system was made in Daytona Beach FL, across the street from Race Track. Gas is still up at $2.25. Temp is up to 3, the high of the day. Lorin This the first time you ever wrote this out? If so, what about some of your other tales? Print them out and give them to your grand kids, so they have the rest of the story. Doing this should keep you out of the bars, off the street corners and reduce the time , that, if your age permitted, you would think about visiting the cathouse. Seriously, record it, and title it "What Grandpa Did When He Was Young"... Gary did it and it makes interesting reading.
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Post by pat perry on Dec 31, 2020 0:42:34 GMT 9
Old Sarge wrote: This the first time you ever wrote this out? If so, what about some of your other tales? Print them out and give them to your grand kids, so they have the rest of the story. Doing this should keep you out of the bars, off the street corners and reduce the time , that, if your age permitted, you would think about visiting the cathouse. Seriously, record it, and title it "What Grandpa Did When He Was Young"... Gary did it and it makes interesting reading.
Lorin, I just looked over your last 1000 posts from today 12-30-2020 to 10-28-2016 and there are some good stories in them. If you think about documenting them for your Grandkids this might be a good place to start and it will remind you of other stories you've told in earlier posts to add to them.
Writing a book is not easy as Gary can tell us, but it records history that Grandkids may someday wish they had asked you about. We don't have Grandkids but but the Zoom calls we've been having with our children and my wife's siblings have unearthed a lot of historical family stories that were never discussed before now and it has brought us closer together as a family.
Zoom is about the only positive thing that has come out of the Covid situation. Especially if your family members are spread across 4 time zones and doesn't get together often.
Thanks, Pat P.
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Post by Jim on Jan 2, 2021 1:00:11 GMT 9
With all that is going on and has gone on in our lives and in America, I find it hard to say Happy New Year, not knowing what 2021 is carrying forward from 2020.... But, I can and do pray that our GOD will watch over each of you. Perhaps this video will say more than I can.biggeekdad.com/2011/01/happy-new-year/#.X-3OoWXnPn4.gmail
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Post by Jim on Feb 1, 2021 5:05:04 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Feb 2, 2021 3:22:25 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Feb 3, 2021 2:43:59 GMT 9
Absolutely amazing how power corrupts! What does the Bible say about power corrupts? Bible verses about Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. (From Forerunner Commentary) 1 Peter 2:17-21. There is oppression and abuse all over the world. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.". People abuse when they amass power whether it be in the family, in the community, or in the nation. There is plenty of abuse of authority. Pat P.
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 4, 2021 2:49:39 GMT 9
Absolutely amazing how power corrupts! What does the Bible say about power corrupts? Bible verses about Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. (From Forerunner Commentary) 1 Peter 2:17-21. There is oppression and abuse all over the world. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.". People abuse when they amass power whether it be in the family, in the community, or in the nation. There is plenty of abuse of authority. Pat P. I'm going to make some time to watch this.
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Post by Jim on Feb 4, 2021 4:04:06 GMT 9
Absolutely amazing how power corrupts! What does the Bible say about power corrupts? Bible verses about Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. (From Forerunner Commentary) 1 Peter 2:17-21. There is oppression and abuse all over the world. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.". People abuse when they amass power whether it be in the family, in the community, or in the nation. There is plenty of abuse of authority. Pat P. I'm going to make some time to watch this. Better yet, send it around in your world
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Post by Jim on Feb 4, 2021 8:35:30 GMT 9
Pepsi's second prank
Pepsi's First Prank: Remember when race car driver Jeff Gordon, in disguise, "test drove" a car with a terrified car salesman as his passenger? Pepsi's first prank was criticized by "journalists" on the Internet to be a fake.
Pepsi's Second Prank: So, to prove the critics wrong, they did another one. This time the victim is with one of the most critical journalists who wrote about their first prank. This is a must-watch. It's hilarious!
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Post by Jim on Mar 5, 2021 1:08:22 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Mar 5, 2021 2:25:41 GMT 9
Jim, Great video.
I found his introductory video here:
Excerpt: HELLO… It’s Micah Tyler 512,723 views Jul 20, 2016
Say HELLO to Micah Tyler – the newest member of the Fair Trade family! He’s a Texas native, was a youth pastor for nearly 10 years, drove a sausage delivery truck to support his family after he first stepped out to do music full time, and recently had a video about millennials go crazy viral (we’re talking nearly 50 million views). So yeah… the typical journey to getting a record deal. In a landscape full of new songs and new artists, what truly sets Micah Tyler apart from the rest of CCM? Well… just watch and you’ll find out.
Pat: Shows that if you have talent, skills, and a message you can make a it stick with an audience through music!
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Post by Jim on Mar 5, 2021 2:54:43 GMT 9
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