About me? Well I'm enjoying my third career now and haven't even died of old age yet! Being a famous writer was an interesting goal decades ago but I developed a terrible addiction to eating food and living in a warm building so I ended up working for a living instead. (Not that writing isn't work, I've always enjoyed writing too much for such a category). Accounting and management was good for me for years but I got bored of being inside all day. So I became a painter/drywaller and stayed inside all day for another decade or so. I didn't get bored of it and the money was nice but unfortunately the punishment on my back and body was severe. I foresee writing a well informed article on back pain sometime soon! To this day I work as an aircraft mechanic and manufacture aircraft parts.

My passion is ...

ebay.....oh wait....that's an addiction......Aviation, Science

I know too much about ...

the Avro Arrow and the Avro Jetliner

My parents always told me ...

Watch out for Bears and Cougars and don't get run over.

My childhood ambition ...

Becoming a famous writer believe it or not

My favorite memory ...

That would not fit in "briefly me"

Why I write ...

Strictly to amuse or inform. Not sure if that's for me or for others....

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Airplanes, Aviation, Science

My first job ...

Picking strawberries in blazing heat with straw stabbing me and sweat stinging my eyes, but hey it paid $7 a day :-) I don't EVER want to see another Strawberry...

Travel > Air Travel & Airlines All about rotary wing aircraft

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Achieving heavier than air flight was a triumph in engineering and aerodynamics. But it was only a baby step down the path toward a successful helicopter. Thirty-six years would pass before Igor Sikorski made the first tethered flight in his VS 300. Sikorski had an uncanny ability to solve the problems of the rotary wing aircraft. He insisted on personally flight testing each of his breakthroughs. Being the first, Sikorski had to learn to fly what is still the most difficult and dangerous type of aircraft.

Designing the rotor blade was the easy part, as earlier research into airfo...

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