Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:53:31 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from esmtp.cave.com ([66.35.72.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with ESMTP id 826774 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:37:26 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.35.72.5; envelope-from=lancair@ustek.com Received: from [192.168.2.114] ([70.61.176.138]) by esmtp.cave.com (VisNetic.MailServer.v7.2.4.1) with ASMTP id CQN38002 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:36:40 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <4373BD68.1050605@ustek.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:36:40 -0500 From: N301ES Reply-To: lancair@ustek.com Organization: USTEK Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: The way engines are supposed to go 'round References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050107080905060405030303" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050107080905060405030303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Turbines are Ruining Aviation or Why do I miss flying the Gooney Bird so much? We gotta get rid of turbines, they are ruining aviation. We need to go back to big round engines. Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to move a switch from "OFF" to "START," and then remember to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start. Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the pilots are not even allowed to do it. Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot and start whining louder. Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's a guy thing. When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but hardly exciting. Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any minute. This helps concentrate the mind. Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a pilot's attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during the flight. Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell. I think I hear the nurse coming down the hall. I gotta go. --------------050107080905060405030303 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 
Subject: Turbines are Ruining Aviation or
         Why do I miss flying the Gooney Bird so much?

We gotta get rid of turbines, they are ruining aviation. We need to go
back to big round engines. Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to
move a switch from "OFF" to "START," and then remember to move it back
to  "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start. Cranking a round
engine  requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the pilots
are not even  allowed to do it.


Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot
and start whining louder.


Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click BANG, more
rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot of
smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's a guy
thing. When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
concentrate on the flight ahead.


Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but
hardly  exciting. Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew
boredom,  complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and
sounds like  it's going to blow at any minute. This helps concentrate
the mind.  Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a pilot's 
attention.  There's nothing to fiddle with during the flight.


Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman lanterns. Round
engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell.


I think I hear the nurse coming down the hall. I gotta go.


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