This will be enjoyed by all, and especially by engineers. And cats.
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Adele--Although I cannot run this video on my computer (security issues!), I can only assume that it is one that I saw on a local TV channel, whose co-author/producer/director used to work for me at the Little Airplane Company (Cessna). The young man, Paul Klusman, is quite delightful to know, and I have exchanged a few emails with him about the video. On 1 Oct 2008, he wrote, "I'll be in an article in the NY Times this Sunday. It is about single guys who have cats. This cat thing is going to just keep going I guess!" I'm happy that you found his video on cats. Cop Car P.S. He also wrote, in the above-mentioned email, "We still need more ladies in engineering today. Perhaps I'll do a video interview with you some day to inspire more ladies to go into engineering. I probably never told you this but I really admire how you did not let your gender stop you from doing what you wanted to do. I particularly admire how you got checked out in every taildragger Cessna ever built. I would have LOVED to have done that!"
Rigorously, a taildragger is an airplane that has main landing gear up front (a bit aft of the engine), and a drag-skid (no wheel) in back (beneath the tail). However, Paul meant the more modern useage wherein the airplane has main landing gear up front and a small, wheel under the tail. Sitting on the ground, both types of these small aircraft have their engines pointing toward the sky.
Most of the more modern small airplanes use "tricycle" landing gear where the main landing gear are beneath the cabin and there is a small wheel up front, usually just behind the engine. These airplanes sit nearly level on the ground.
Paul exaggerated, somewhat, in that he failed to distinguish between older Cessna aircraft (all of which had the "taildragger" configuration) and the more modern taildraggers that were being built into the early 1980s. Agricultural "workhorse" aircraft were still being built as taildraggers for various reasons--including the fact that they are more rugged. They tolerate landing on rough landing strips/farm fields better than the tricycle configured airplanes--better off landing on smooth runways. I did check out in the Models 180, 185, and 188 (a crop duster with, unusual for a small Cessna, low wing, single seat, and a stick rather than a wheel for control), because I was Group Engineer for the group responsible for their structural integrity. (Well, that was my excuse and everyone seemed to buy it!)
I was able to check out in all of the models that were being built in the late 1970s, early 1980s--except--I never got around to the pressurized 210! CC
Good grief, what comprehensive knowledge of aircraft CopCar. All I know of them is that you get in one and it flys you places by some mysterious and perhaps magical means that enables a thing made of metal to fly. I am not an engineer (grin).
Ah, but, Adele, I was a pilot for 12 years prior to my becoming an engineer. It was my love of flying that caused me to take up a particular branch of engineering (engineering mechanics--an option the aeronautical engineering discipline) when I decided to abandon physics! CC P.S. And my brothers and I played with our stick airplanes 20 years prior to my becoming a pilot. Neither of them, however, learned to fly or worked directly on airplanes.
Adele--I don't think that I've been keeping secrets. Some of the things that we've done in our lives (yours and mine) have just never come up in conversation. I'm sure there is much for me to learn about you, too! CC
CopCar, There are things in your life that I don't know, just as there are things in my life that have not come up when we've chatted. Makes life interesting - you never know what's coming up that you aren't expecting...
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Adele--Although I cannot run this video on my computer (security issues!), I can only assume that it is one that I saw on a local TV channel, whose co-author/producer/director used to work for me at the Little Airplane Company (Cessna). The young man, Paul Klusman, is quite delightful to know, and I have exchanged a few emails with him about the video. On 1 Oct 2008, he wrote, "I'll be in an article in the NY Times this Sunday. It is about single guys who have cats. This cat thing is going to just keep going I guess!" I'm happy that you found his video on cats.
Cop Car
P.S. He also wrote, in the above-mentioned email, "We still need more ladies in engineering today. Perhaps I'll do a video interview with you some day to inspire more ladies to go into engineering. I probably never told you this but I really admire how you did not let your gender stop you from doing what you wanted to do. I particularly admire how you got checked out in every taildragger Cessna ever built. I would have LOVED to have done that!"
Cop Car....what's a taildragger Cessna??
Rigorously, a taildragger is an airplane that has main landing gear up front (a bit aft of the engine), and a drag-skid (no wheel) in back (beneath the tail). However, Paul meant the more modern useage wherein the airplane has main landing gear up front and a small, wheel under the tail. Sitting on the ground, both types of these small aircraft have their engines pointing toward the sky.
Most of the more modern small airplanes use "tricycle" landing gear where the main landing gear are beneath the cabin and there is a small wheel up front, usually just behind the engine. These airplanes sit nearly level on the ground.
Paul exaggerated, somewhat, in that he failed to distinguish between older Cessna aircraft (all of which had the "taildragger" configuration) and the more modern taildraggers that were being built into the early 1980s. Agricultural "workhorse" aircraft were still being built as taildraggers for various reasons--including the fact that they are more rugged. They tolerate landing on rough landing strips/farm fields better than the tricycle configured airplanes--better off landing on smooth runways. I did check out in the Models 180, 185, and 188 (a crop duster with, unusual for a small Cessna, low wing, single seat, and a stick rather than a wheel for control), because I was Group Engineer for the group responsible for their structural integrity. (Well, that was my excuse and everyone seemed to buy it!)
I was able to check out in all of the models that were being built in the late 1970s, early 1980s--except--I never got around to the pressurized 210!
CC
Good grief, what comprehensive knowledge of aircraft CopCar. All I know of them is that you get in one and it flys you places by some mysterious and perhaps magical means that enables a thing made of metal to fly. I am not an engineer (grin).
Ah, but, Adele, I was a pilot for 12 years prior to my becoming an engineer. It was my love of flying that caused me to take up a particular branch of engineering (engineering mechanics--an option the aeronautical engineering discipline) when I decided to abandon physics!
CC
P.S. And my brothers and I played with our stick airplanes 20 years prior to my becoming a pilot. Neither of them, however, learned to fly or worked directly on airplanes.
CopCar, You learn something new about your friends every day. I didn't realise that you'd been a pilot too. Is there no limit to your abilities!
Adele--I don't think that I've been keeping secrets. Some of the things that we've done in our lives (yours and mine) have just never come up in conversation. I'm sure there is much for me to learn about you, too!
CC
CopCar, There are things in your life that I don't know, just as there are things in my life that have not come up when we've chatted. Makes life interesting - you never know what's coming up that you aren't expecting...
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