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Post by Marty on Mar 11, 2023 0:18:06 GMT -5
With sufficient thrust they fly rather well.
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 11, 2023 0:25:55 GMT -5
Depends on how hard you kick 'em.
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Post by Marty on Mar 11, 2023 9:33:41 GMT -5
I was thinking trebuchet.
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Post by drlj on Mar 11, 2023 9:51:19 GMT -5
Pig are not aerodynamic. They tend to hurdle as opposed to actually flying. And they make terrible landings.
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 11, 2023 9:54:04 GMT -5
I'd guess a pig, given that you can keep it oriented right, is a fairly aerodynamic shape--smooth and rounded, with small ears and legs. Even if it tumbles, maybe not too bad.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Mar 11, 2023 9:57:30 GMT -5
A quote attributed to entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash, who said, “Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
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Post by epaul on Mar 11, 2023 11:17:18 GMT -5
Dumbo was lucky. While flying about, never land on multiple power lines. If one of them is the ground, you are fried.
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Post by Dub on Mar 11, 2023 11:37:58 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on Mar 11, 2023 14:04:35 GMT -5
Of course cows can fly just as well.
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Post by John B on Mar 11, 2023 14:05:56 GMT -5
Of course cows can fly just as well. We are introducing a family friend to this movie tonight! |
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 14:12:03 GMT -5
We are introducing a family friend to this movie tonight! |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 11, 2023 14:32:25 GMT -5
Question.
Why is this thread?
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Post by Dub on Mar 11, 2023 14:58:23 GMT -5
Question. Why is this thread? Mime My guess would be Fun Friday. |
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Post by millring on Mar 11, 2023 18:40:17 GMT -5
A quote attributed to entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash, who said, “Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” My friend, Martt, introduced me to the "bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly" thing. He said it's a well known "thing" in the aviation world (of which he's a part. His rebuild of a Cub won its division a couple of years ago at the Oshkosh fly-in.) Knowing it, I used the idea in a poem, though I guessed few would get the allusion. Coincidentally, Martt's website was Air Pigs. |
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Post by millring on Mar 11, 2023 18:43:13 GMT -5
Perhaps my favorite Martt aviation story is the time when, as a teenager, he and his dad flew under the Golden Gate Bridge to drop the ashes of a pilot friend.
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 11, 2023 19:11:11 GMT -5
... “Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” The same quote was pretty common in the army, but about helicopters, not bees. |
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 19:11:39 GMT -5
Perhaps my favorite Martt aviation story is the time when, as a teenager, he and his dad flew under the Golden Gate Bridge to drop the ashes of a pilot friend. If this is true, it's astonishing no one witnessed and reported it. That would cancel your pilot's license pronto. |
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Post by billhammond on Mar 11, 2023 19:16:39 GMT -5
When pigs fry:  |
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Post by millring on Mar 11, 2023 19:46:39 GMT -5
Perhaps my favorite Martt aviation story is the time when, as a teenager, he and his dad flew under the Golden Gate Bridge to drop the ashes of a pilot friend. If this is true, it's astonishing no one witnessed and reported it. That would cancel your pilot's license pronto. If I do the math, I think Martt said he was 14 or 15 at the time. I think he's 62 or 63 now. He grew up around aviation. His dad was an airline pilot. He flew out of an airport around San Fransisco and had the route that went to Japan. The pilot who died was also part of the skydiving community out there. Martt said they flew up the river from a small local airport and under the bridge, dropped flowers, and flew back. I could ask him for more details. I still see him pretty often. |
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Post by millring on Mar 11, 2023 19:49:47 GMT -5
The day I met Martt I was down at his dad's airport in Mentone, IN. A friend jumped from there and I went down to see it. Martt took me up in this breezy.  |
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