Jeff Head MEGA PING
Posted on 08/26/2003 3:55:52 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Steak and Cool Ice tea on me when ya pass thru the Panhandle again. If it's not for a while then I'll just send ya some duckets for the new one as the "complete" series is really something I want to continue ! IMHO our future events are in that text ..........
Stay Safe !
If I do, and if it is after publication, I'll be sure and bring one by.
One of these days we're going to have to try that challenge there at the steak house and put away that 72oz'er or whatever it is. LOL!
Steak, potatoes and lemonade for me.
Much better. Reads a bit better as well as being more technically correct. I'd check to see if there is a separate stabilator control on the Blackhawk, or if it just is "scheduled" with the "state" of the helicopter and the position of the main controls. It could be either. I'd never heard the use of aileron and elevator in conjunction with a conventional helicopter before, but then I'm not a rotorhead and thus I learned something new. I have simulated helicopter flight dynamics as part of the design process for some avionics systems however. One of them was the Blackhawk, in it's Air Force SAR configuration, and the same computer model, with parameter changes, was later used by others to simulate the Army Spec Ops version. I don't recall a separate control for the stabilator, but it was 20+ years ago. (Wow, that long! Where did the time go?)
Time passes for us all...twenty years ago we had changed jobs and moved to California and had been working at Bechtel on Nuclear Power Plant design for a year after I had finished up work at Vought in Texas on some MLRS work.
My third daughter (who now is a mother) was one year old.
You are probably right, the stabilator in the back is probably controlled automatically. I'll word it to indicate that its control system gets damaged, leaving mention of the pilot's direct involvement.
Best Fregards.
Thanks for the great input in making that particular point more realistic.
Stay Safe !
Then, pass or fail...I'll make sure I don't eat for a couple of days! LOL!
I've passed by that steak house and seen that sign for almost 30 years it seems, since I was a young man right out of High Scool (oops, dating myself here). Always thought about trying it...guess its time to giver 'er a go.
It's fun......! Let me know a week before ya plan on coming down and I'll make an afternoon free for the event !
Stay Safe !
And the fourth, from which this excerpt comes, will be available in November...so you'll be able to read all four pretty quickly.
They all flow pretty seamlessly because the outline was written for a single book...it's just when I got to writing it was obvious that my outline was going to require a book about 2200 pages long! LOL!
So it was either cut content or split it into several book. I opted for the latter because I wanted all of the info in the outline to come out in the detail I imagined.
Best Fregards.
As soon as I know I'm comin', you'll know.
I shall truly give it my all my friend.
And thank YOU for the ping and all of the great writing, informing and communicating you do...not to mention the many pings to other threads and articles outside of your own.
Actively educating others is one of the most important things we can do in the fight for our Republic and our liberty.
Best Fregards.
And your timing is GREAT for getting ready for Volume IV.
Please let me know what you think after you finish Volume III.
As always, best Fregards!
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