Holy Smokes Rag! Those are some serious credentials you carry around in your wallet! I meant no disrespect, was just ribbing ya! Hehe.
So what possessed an aeronautical engineer from Boeing to switch over to towing banners three decades later?
Rooster, no disrespect taken. I am kind of quiet and you guys drew me out.
BTW, Thank you for answering the Gyro question. I was about to when you jumped in with some excellent descriptions.
I also learned from your thread about your handle... I enjoy learning something new.
Why did I change?
I get to play with the big toys during the day, but the evenings and weekends are mine.
ah, mostly mine. I have piles of information at home on the various Boeing aircraft: performance, dimensions, weight, etc.
Just have to watch out and not let my wife throw my good stuff away.
I am a metallurgical engineer by degree and a bearings engineer for the last 15 years.
I have loved flying and I have fixed wing and rotary wing under my belt.
My wife has her experimental fixed wing that she built and I have a 1948 ragwing that I am disassembling and rebuilding.
Every week I put 1-2 hours in a rotary wing and try to fly with my wife on weekends.
When I travel for Boeing, (2-3 times per year), I try to find a day to rent a fixed wing and tour that part of the country.
Oddball, I do not remember about the B52, but it would not surprise me.
Skygal, Yes, lost about 2/3rds of the vertical stabilizer and all of the rudder. Makes landing more fun.
It is not that unusual, if you look hard enough, you will find a picture of a B24 with 90% of the vertical missing when a German ran into it. It made it back to England fine. Just does not fly in a straight line. Mostly it crabs and is hard to turn.
You do a lot more banking on approach with application of the up elevator.
One day to test it, I touched down in a C172 without touching the yoke.
Hmmmm, I just admitted that I was
. Yep, I am in the right crowd.