TERROR AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, 2nd Excerpt from Volume IV of Jeff Head's Dragon's Fury Series

The Dragon's Fury Series Web Site ^ | August 26, 2003 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

For those here on FR following the Dragon's Fury Series, this is the 2nd excerpt from Volume IV, The Long March, which will be released in November.

Best Fregards.

Jeff

[Jeff Head]

FYI, latest excerpt from Dragon's Fury Series - Volume IV, The Long March.

[Lazamataz]

Jeez! I never knew this stuff was actually gonna be good reading! This is some pretty reasonable stuff, brother Jeff. Okay, now I want some autographed copied.

[Frank_Discussion]

Bump for later!

[BnBlFlag]

Hurry that thing up, Boy! We can't wait 'till November!

[Jeff Head]

No problem bro. Thanks for reading it.

When Volume IV is finished I will have completed over 1750 pages of the same kind of reasonable stuff...tracking a fictional third world war from opening moves in 2005, to a complete break out of hostilities on March 15, 2006 (thus the President's comment in this excerpt about 3-15) through the events in Volume IV which will go through 2010.

A number of excerpts are posted on each volume's own web page. Just click on the pictures of each volume...HERE.

One more Volume to go after this one and another 400-450 pages.

I'll tell you , it's been a real learning exprience and a lot of work...but the enjoyable kind.

Jeff

[Jeff Head]

I'm hurrying as fast as my fumbled fingered typing will allow, LOL! It's almost like the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

But seriously, I am over 150 pages into Volume IV and it is a real barn stormer.

Will be out in November, the good Lord willin and the Creek don't rise.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks, I look forward to your thoughts.

[Nowhere Man]

bump for later

[Dubya]

bump for later.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you too. I look forward to your thoughts.

If you like this excerpt, check out all of the other excerpts from the other Volumes by clicking on each Volume's picture, HERE

[Dubya]

Thanks for the ping.

[Jeff Head]

You are very welcome my friend. Hope you enjoy this short read from the next Volume in the series.

[Joe Bonforte]

Gosh, seems like only yesterday we were collaborating on your online ad. And now you're on the final book. Time flies.

[sistergoldenhair]

Excellent.

[steveegg]

I can't wait for November. It won't wait for Christmas for me, but I'm not buying just one.

[El Gato]

the helicopter and locked his aileron into position.

Hmm, Jeff, helicopters don't have ailerons. They have a cyclic which controls the "pitch" of the rotor head (not actually, it actually changes the way the blades change pitch as they rotate around, but you can think of it as tilting the "effective" rotor disk), allowing for both fore and aft "pitch" control and side to side "roll" control. That's the control most typically between the pilot's legs. The other control, the "collective" is used to change the average pitch of the blades. It may have a throttle also, but often the throttle is auto-controled to keep the rotation rate constant in the face of changing loads due to collective control changes. The "rudder" pedals actually control the pitch of the tail rotor, allowing for "yaw" control of the bird. Lots of "response" interactions between the cyclic and collective inputs, much more so than between the comparable stick and throttle inputs of a fixed wing aircraft.

Hopefully something that can be corrected before going to the publisher. This is offered as contructive critisim. I loved the first 3 books. They are still in my "live" bookcase, not having been relegated to the bookscases in the back bedroom.

[El Gato]

helicopters don't have ailerons

The Blackhawk and it's derivitives as well as the Apache, do have a stabilator on the back. I'm not real familiar with just how it's used, but I'm sure if it jammed you'd get a big pitch change, up or down, if you had much forward motion at all, and maybe even if you were hovering as the downwash from the main rotor hit the stabililator. Better to just jam the cyclic control.

[the irate magistrate]

Thanks for the heads up Jeff....

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuuuump!