JackMcCornack wrote:
As a styling exercise for a skin-and-stringer body, the BMW Gina is the ticket
Well, ain't that a kick in the head... and here I thought I was mega-retro, and it turns out I'm bleeding edge!
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Maybe in the past, dude, or maybe in your Stitts catalog right now.
There are lots of technologies that have come and gone several times. Quite often I've thought I've come up with something innovative and original, only to find a mention of the same thing from the Roosevelt administration. Theodore, not Franklin...
I eventually came to think of the art of engineering as being somewhat like a lava lamp; associated groups of technologies bubble into common awareness, spread out, and then sink down and are forgotten for a while.
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and if you go to eaa.org you can find a local EAA chapter; go to a meeting,
eaa.org sure wasn't much help there; I had to google "eaa chapter list" to find the list. Turns out there's a group only 12 miles from here. I'll email the contact and ask if they mind me dropping by the next meeting.
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bring a screen shot of the Gina and a pic of your car and see what response you get from the dopers.
From the chapter's own web page it looks like they have a lot of ultralights. I'm hoping that's just the kind of people I need to be talking to.
You know, Jack, you're not doing a very good job of talking me out of this idea...