Re: AFCA cheap imitation Summary for 09-May-08

On Fri, 9 May 2008 08:06:07 -0600, "Glenn Dowdy"
<glenn.no.dowdy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Rick B. [summary]" <deepstblu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> > We blew a hole through an F-4 Phantom wing by having the vents clog.
It
> > wasn't a tiny hole, either.
> >
> I didn't see this the first time, but There's Something About Mary that 
> makes this so easy to know the origin.

There are times when I'm not entirely sure I wrote something that's
been included in the Summary, but I have to admit this is not such a
time.

You know, I'm not the only person in the world who likes the Phantom
or worked in aerospace, but there are long periods of time when I feel
that way.  The presence of the former military people here makes me
feel less unique, probably because I worked so closely with military
folks on various projects.  Too, military folks get to play with fun
toys, just as I did.

Of course, every one here has some experience with technology and its
foibles; flight research is a wonderful career for someone who wants
to go bare knuckle with technology.  I often referred to myself, not
entirely joking, as thra****ng in the underbrush of knowledge.  The
classic advice to cycle power to fix a balky component, for example,
is how we fixed flight computer problems on the F-8 DFBW.  Sometimes
we'd have to do it more than once, but it worked every time.

Mary "I love the Summary; it makes my whole day go better"
-- 
Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote re****ts about it.
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