On 08/11/2018 10:17 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:> John Doe wrote: >> >> Helicopters are very risky. Even a quadcopter crashes and burns if >> one motor fails. A copter with five or more motors might be good for >> short trips. > > 20-something years ago there was a documentary on a guy whose dream was > to build a quad-copter out of 4 rusty surplus transport copters and a > square steel framework. He wanted it for logging, to replace a balloon > IIRC. One copter failed and all 4 pilots came down. I don't remember > if they all lived. > >The moral of this story is to have pedestrian dreams. Mine is to hopefully own my own small tool/garden shed before I'm 50.
OT: Personal aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:29:48 -0700, gnuarm.deletethisbit wrote:> On Friday, August 10, 2018 at 4:40:47 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote: >> On 10/08/2018 00:22, gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com wrote: >> > On Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 4:42:43 PM UTC-4, Lasse Langwadt >> > Christensen wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >> Sailing - The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill, while going >> >> nowhere slowly at great expense (equivalent to standing in a cold >> >> shower, fully clothed, throwing up, and tearing up $100 bills, while >> >> a bunch of other people watch you). >> > >> > You are thinking of power boats. In a kayak you have to paddle as >> > well! >> > >> > Rick C. >> >> And it's cold. You can't have your kayak and heat it. > > No, you wear a wet or dry suit and then the problem becomes cooling. > But that's an easy one, rotary cooling. We also call that rolling. >All that may be true but you seem to have missed the (old) joke reference to the phrase; "You can't have your cake and eat it." :-) -- Johnny B Good
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In article <Z5CgD.84014$GU1.25316@fx34.am4>, johnny-b- good@invalid.ntlworld.com says...> > All that may be true but you seem to have missed the (old) joke > reference to the phrase; "You can't have your cake and eat it." :-)Which was the punch-line to a long story (one of many) told by Frank Muir and Denis Norden in the BBC radio programme "My Word". (IIRC the kayayk was, improbably, crewed by Ab, Abdul and Abdullah.) Mike.
