What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Perhaps time to fly a large gas balloon for advertising,' No Flying here'. I used to live under the flight path of Racing fans who would fly by Helicopter to Silverstone on racing days and it was Blxxdy noisy and the dog hated it and would stand looking up at them.

In Kenya I lived alongside Wilson Airport and on certain days when the wind was in the right direction they would take off over the house and it made the windows rattle.

Clive

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Here is a treat for Neil & Norman, and anyone else amused by 'palindromic numbers'

… I think this one qualifies as a hyper-palindrome !!

MichaelG.

Suzuki GV2000 … "The Skip" … Scruffy, but still going strong : 02-Aug-2016

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 02/08/2016 15:56:28:

Perhaps time to fly a large gas balloon for advertising,' No Flying here'. I used to live under the flight path of Racing fans who would fly by Helicopter to Silverstone on racing days and it was Blxxdy noisy and the dog hated it and would stand looking up at them.

In Kenya I lived alongside Wilson Airport and on certain days when the wind was in the right direction they would take off over the house and it made the windows rattle.

Clive

Does one not need planning permission for advertising blimps?

Plus they probably have a serious attraction for aero modelers. I used to fly at a disused second world war airfield that had hundreds of acres of ploughed fields round it & just a single 15 ft diameter tower remaining from the control tower of old. Every 3 weeks on average someone would manage to fly into it !!!

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Michael

I'm not too far away from that on my beloved Saab (which I've had from new and in which I've obsessively persued those palindromic moments !) It is currently over the 100k mark and is away with No2 son who is with us from Australia for a holiday. I just hope that he returns it before the 111111 clocks up ! (I also hope that he puts some fuel in it,)

Norman

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

As a small boy I lived 500m from the end of RAF Leeming runway, Javelins were the resident aircraft at that time. Could be noisy at times.

Mike

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Posted by Ian S C on 02/08/2016 14:38:47:

A few years back a nephew moved from NZ to Brisbane, he took his RC hydroplane to the local boat pond, and soon got told"you can't run that here, the boat has a 10 cc glow motor, local regs only allow electric or other silent power.

Ian S C

Same in Canada, or certainly British Columbia. I foolishly took a small glowplug engine when we moved there and it was a major task finding anywhere that even stocked the fuel. They only seem to use electric – no idea if that was mandated or driven by commercial or social interests.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 02/08/2016 17:12:36:

Here is a treat for Neil & Norman, and anyone else amused by 'palindromic numbers'

… I think this one qualifies as a hyper-palindrome !!

MichaelG.

Suzuki GV2000 … "The Skip" … Scruffy, but still going strong : 02-Aug-2016

We are all confident that you pulled over to a safe place to take that picture and did not photoshop in the handbrake light later

Neil

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 02/08/2016 19:13:12:

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 02/08/2016 17:12:36:

Here is a treat for Neil & Norman, and anyone else amused by 'palindromic numbers'

… I think this one qualifies as a hyper-palindrome !!

MichaelG.

Suzuki GV2000 … "The Skip" … Scruffy, but still going strong : 02-Aug-2016

We are all confident that you pulled over to a safe place to take that picture and did not photoshop in the handbrake light later

Neil

Should be quite safe travelling at zero MPH !

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Getting ready for Sundays attempt at Kingsbury just welded another section of stainless tube in burst generator.

Checking for leaks on new manifold etc. with soapy water after using the engine as a compressor rotating it with an electric drill via the propshaft.

Everything seems leak free but proof of the pudding will be when the high temperature steam is cooking. Next job to place tubing in generator insulation cases and check the burner jets.

[Bill PudneyParticipant @billpudney37759]

I used to live under the flight path for RAAF Edinburgh in South Australia. At the time the RAAF were flying F111s and Mirages. Often they would fly in the evenings and either aircraft flying over at about 200 feet with reheat was almost visceral. I loved it!!

cheers

Bill

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Received a link to this from NPL

http://www.npl.co.uk/news/gps-in-space-bringing-autonomous-interplanetary-travel-closer-to-reality?utm_source=weeklybulletin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=iss264

… interesting on several levels; not least the questionable use of the term 'GPS' by people who really should know better.

MichaelG.

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Galactic positioning system? Or maybe GPS is just generic for locating systems as Hoover is for Vacuum cleaner.

Nor really enough resolution to be able to use pulsars as XYZ readouts for the workshop.

regards Martin

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Interesting stuff Michael.

As far as the" questionable use of the term 'GPS' by people who really should know better." goes though they have shown it in quotes and I think that we can all understand what they mean. I doubt that this would be the case if they had quoted IPPS, (Inter Planetary Positioning System) or maybe Galactic Positioning System ……………..( GPS……oh maybe …..!!)

Norman

PS Well done Martin you beat me to it – your post was not there when I first looked!

Edited By NJH on 05/08/2016 14:21:49

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 05/08/2016 11:28:24:

… interesting on several levels; not least the questionable use of the term 'GPS' by people who really should know better.

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O.K. Chaps … I only meant that NPL should know better than 're-using' acronyms without 're-defining' them … It is, after all "kinda what they do".

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Purchased a useful little rotary indexing table, today.

No worm gearing, but 48 indexing detents, and a 'lock'.

Nice & compact for small work [table diameter 70mm].

Does anyone recognise it, please ?

MichaelG.

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Spent some hours reinstalling Winows7 on my PC after it was infected with Windows 10 and messed up the component store and windows update. Almost back to how it was.

Ed.

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

The little rotary table is a "Unimat" one from the original SL series.

I have one just like it.

Phil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks Phil

MichaelG.

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 07/08/2016 15:43:43

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Club BBQ at the track in fantastic weather and warm wind to blow the smoke out of your eyes. Even saw some of the boating crowd in attendance.

[Anonymous]

This weekend was rather less frenetic than last weekend. On Saturday I flew my small glider. By the standards of this year it was a good day. After a 7kt average thermal off tow to 4500ft I set off to Corby. As is normally the case with me I then fumbled it and ended up taking the next half decent thermal at 2500ft near Kimbolton. While looking around I saw a B17 (Sally B?) pass a few hundred feet under me and slightly to one side, heading for Duxford. Rather appropriate as I was just south of Kimbolton and north of Thurleigh, both of which were B17 bases in WWII. I took a silent moment to remember the young men who flew, fought, and died in B17s so that I could have the freedom to do what I was doing. In other words flying cross country in my own glider when and how I wanted to and without fear or favour. As mentioned elsewhere on this forum I completely missed seeing the airship at Cardington despite flying over Bedford itself. In the evening I picked up a 2" UNC tap, bought on Ebay, from the seller in Bedford. Sunday afternoon I was tug pilot; pretty windy and rough as old boots. It's not often you leave the seat in the tug despite being firmly strapped in. Despite a lack of club members I did a few tows including a couple for spin checks, which gives one the chance for slightly longer tows to 3000 feet and the ability to meander around the countryside a bit more.

And now I'm catching up on the forum!

Andrew

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Andrew,

That wouldnt be Kevs tools by any chance, if yes nice chap, I just email him if I need something now and go fetch his prices are good.

Martin P

[Anonymous]

Posted by martin perman on 07/08/2016 21:28:03:

That wouldnt be Kevs tools by any chance, if yes nice chap, I just email him if I need something now and go fetch his prices are good.

Got it in one! I've bought from him quite a lot in the past, but not recently. Although he now offers free postage I got into the habit of collecting from him on my regular trips to Bedford to see my mum.

Andrew

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Were you thermalling slightly north east of Bedford between 15:30 to 16:00 in possible a white glider as I was tracking another aircraft when I spotted the glider I think rotating anticlockwise.

Martin P

[Anonymous]

Posted by martin perman on 07/08/2016 21:40:29:

Were you thermalling slightly north east of Bedford between 15:30 to 16:00 in possible a white glider as I was tracking another aircraft when I spotted the glider I think rotating anticlockwise.

Quite possibly, I landed about 16:15, and beforehand I made a couple of good 6kt climbs in the St Neots area followed by a circuit over Bourn airfield to look at my bungalow. So I would have been over Bedford around 15:30 and a bit later. I came in from the north and went over the north of Bedford, as my mum lives in Brickhill. I left to the north east. My glider is white, as are all modern composite gliders, to stop them getting too hot and going soggy!

Andrew

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

More to do with yesterday than today but I'm making good progress with Stewart Hart's Single Cylinder Horizontal Steam Engine (Pottymill)

But the main interest is what happened to this new 3mm twist drill the very first time I used it drilling brass!

Not only is it bent, it's unwound as well! I'm not sure where I bought it as it was loose in my spares box. I think it's probably a cheap DIY store drill intended for woodwork but even so…

Cheers,

Dave

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