shempdowling2(at)earthlin
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 Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:51 am Post subject: OSH interesting things |
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How about the folding wing flying car from MIT grad students.
http://news.com.com/Flying+car+ready+for+takeoff/2100-11389_3-6040007.html
Jeff Shemp Dowling
Brian Meyette wrote:
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I attended a seminar on runway homes, which turned out to be a lot
about self-directed IRAs, which I’d only recently heard about and
which seem like a great idea. Not many people know about them, but
you can roll your past (not current) IRAs & 401Ks into a self-directed
IRA that you can then use to buy real estate, a business, etc, as long
as it’s not to directly benefit you or your direct relatives (so you
can’t use it to fund your plane). Seems like a good idea. Google
“self-directed IRA” to get tons of info from the ‘net.
Having attended about every possible building seminar in the past, I
had hoped to re-attend Kent White’s excellent series of seminars on
metal forming, but he wasn’t doing them this year. Also, his booth
in the commercial hangar went unmanned, so I guess something came up
for him & he couldn’t make it. See http://www.tinmantech.com/
I also re-attended Joe Norris’ excellent W&B seminar, as well as Joe
Gauthier’s most excellent seminars on final inspection and flight
testing. If you haven’t attended them, I highly recommend them, as
well as a Canadian man’s (sorry – don’t recall his name) excellent and
necessary seminar on fuel flow testing.
I also attended a paint design seminar, which was quite useful. See
http://schemedesigners.com/ for more info.
Saw lots of cool LSAs & ultralights, including a very cool one-off
custom design http://www.culverprops.com/back-yard-flyer.php
Mostly welded construction; quite unique
If I had it to do over again, I’d get something like this first, then
I’d have something to fly while I build. I REALLY miss flying, and
find myself constantly scheming on how to get an ultralight to fly
while I spend at least another year building.
I didn’t spend much time in the RV area, as I’ve already closely
examined and photographed about every RV there in past years. I
guess I’m getting to the construction stage where I’ve already bought
about everything I need and have done, committed to, or
already know what I need to do on all the remaining steps.
I saw a cool demo of the Vertical Power product to control all your
wiring in one box. I’m already past that stage, but it looked
promising. Not cheap, but looks like a good product. The owner, Marc
Ausman, also helped support the RV BBQ. See
http://www.verticalpower.com/
Some very cool jets, but, as my wife said to me when I commented on an
especially cool jet, “when did you ever see a jet that you DIDN’T
think was cool?” If I won the lottery, I’d buy an L-39 and spend 8
hours a day every day training in it.
I saw a couple Questair Venture planes, a defunct kit, which were cool
– picture a stubby, bulbous RV with a Conti 550 engine and retractable
gear that goes 240 knots.
The $10K Bruce King BK1 was pretty cool, too; also kind of a short,
bulbous cross between a Hummelbird and an RV
brian
http://brian76.mystarband.net/RV-7Ahome.htm
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