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It was essentially 1:48 scale and mostly proportional. It was a fully self-contained rocket in that it did not have an ejecting boost pod. I was based on the same operation as the classic Estes F-14 kit but using a much more reliable wing mechanism. I'll find some images and post them in a new thread. The first prototype flew great... and then it flew away. I could never get the second prototype to balance out but I think I know what I did wrong. Sadly, it was killed off before I could work out the bugs. I think its been long enough and the company has changed ownership that I can openly discuss this project. |
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Hey Bob and Mike, want to come out to Pennsylvania and help count the Amish for us so we don't get under counted again this year?
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Scott was right: this thread is really about Bob's job. MarkII
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Therein lies the problem, the Amish community wants to stay separate from the "English" as the call us (many of us are German just like them) There is no real animosity between us but they don't really trust us either.My mother was an enumerator for the 1980 census, most of her assignments were in our home town but she was sent out to Amish farms, too.Since they have no mail service, tax records or any other government records, she just drove out the back roads, found a farmhouse and asked to see the man of the house, the women would never talk to her. By hit or miss they got as many as the could find. Officially the census bureau admitted they may have missed up to 20% of the Amish, unofficially they may have only counted 20%. And since there were not a lot of locals willing to do that job back then they sent people in from Philadelphia and Baltimore who had no idea what they were doing in the remote fields of PA. I wonder if with the use of satellite photos and gps they can locate more farms 30 years later?
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Carl, to expand on an earlier post, get this: Apricorn DriveWire It should save you the hassle-has for me, more than once. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming. Cheers, Jon
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Alright people. Let's get things back on topic for this post. This post is for talk about the sale of Estes to Hobbico. NOT about Bob and his job!
Anyone is welcome to start a post in the FreeForAll forum to continue discussion on Bob. Nothing against Bob, but this forum area and this post are not germain to talking about his job woes. Thank you.
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Dale: PM sent.
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"The g#& d@*% Germans got nothin' to do with it."
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