I'm thinkin' maybe we should try this again? . . . . and you kids should behave yourselves

[beckdg]

just in case what?

I'm glad y'all are having fun, and playing around is what it's all about; but seriously, for just a sec. here. There's only 3 kind of people who are going to offer a Titanium mod:

1) someone who doesn't know any better (and they won't do it any longer than it takes to figure out it's a really bad idea, from a fabricator's point of view)

2) someone who's looking for the fastest way to wear through their tooling and piss off their customers (there's no way you're gonna get your money's worth)

3) someone who's run out of ideas on how to overcharge for their product (without running the risk of making any money on it themselves)

. . . . but that's just my opinion. and I'm certainly no scientist.

no sir.

I'm this guy . ..

(hi!)

Yes, yes...

Though, put me down for a custom classic dibi-ish in classic custom fo' sho'...

(CC... my CC (or paypal, whatever...) is at the ready, seriously.)

*New list necessary? Fine!

/some others
6) beck
/some more

*copy and paste if'n you wish.

Tapatyped

 

[Rossum]

There's only 3 kind of people who are going to offer a Titanium mod:

1) someone who doesn't know any better (and they won't do it any longer than it takes to figure out it's a really bad idea, from a fabricator's point of view)

2) someone who's looking for the fastest way to wear through their tooling and piss off their customers (there's no way you're gonna get your money's worth)

3) someone who's run out of ideas on how to overcharge for their product (without running the risk of making any money on it themselves)

Dang it, why do you have to ruin our fantasies like that?

 

[supertrunker]

Seriously, and no kidding!

I wonder how UD does their Ti atty's? Although you don't have to drill a 3" hole to make an atty. And they are a little more expensive.

It's possible to cast it (but only in a vacuum chamber because it burns in air), so perhaps that's how and then they just finish it, but i'm guessing.

T

 

[pdib]

Dang it, why do you have to ruin our fantasies like that?

a robust fantasy would not be phased by one small dose of reality-check. don't let me stop you.
dream the dream, my bruthah!

 

[X-Puppy]

It's possible to cast it (but only in a vacuum chamber because it burns in air), so perhaps that's how and then they just finish it, but i'm guessing.

T

That would make sense. Pressure forged in gas.... Maybe.... I'm just guessing too.

 

[Kataphraktos]

Man we need to pitch in and get you a mule and a chain saw

Only a Greek would look at that picture and immediately think "mule" and "chainsaw".

/hat tip

 

[pdib]

and maybe one of those Archimedes doo-hickeys for any fluids that might be involved .. . . . .

 

[Loopy1224]

R

 

[pdib]

R

RHO . . . .?

 

[TamiPac]

K, so, I'm back in Houston and realized the forum has STOPPED SENDING ME NOTIFICATIONS AGAIN. I'm not ignoring the thread just not being reminded it's going on.

So sorry, I will reset it again and see if it helps.

 

[damselle]

Yeah. Notifications have been funky with the new forum. Hope they get that fixed soon.

 

[TamiPac]

Thanks Damselle!!! I got the notification!

 

[pdib]

Tami.

. . . . . . nuppin'​

​

 

[TamiPac]

Tami.

. . . . . . nuppin'​

​

Did you just..................LICK me????? Well then, right back at cha!

 

[CaptSteve]

Ok this is certainly way off topic but I have to share this experience with you folks.

Flying last night at 39000 feet, it was a clear night and we were heading eastbound (heading 095) at the time. At approximately 12 o'clock ( straight ahead) high, in fact very high, I would guestimate way outside the atmosphere a light appeared and progressively got brighter. Way brighter and much larger while moving from right to left. The object became about 4-5 times brighter than it first started then suddenly disappeared.

Now I'll say that I've been flying 30 years and have seen many times meteors entering the earths atmosphere and burning up, I've seen 10's if not hundreds of satellites but this thing was completely different.

Meteors falling make a reddish/yellowish light which has somewhat of a tail but this was completely round and brilliant white. It's luminosity and size were increasing in intensity and size and then it suddenly disappeared.

Satellites have a tendency to also reflect sunlight and seem like bright objects however since it was night and we were heading eastbound (sun is rising ahead of us) it would be impossible for a satellite to reflect the sun towards our direction nor with such intensity as this object had.

The only way I could possibly justify this sighting is perhaps a very large meteor halling with an entry trajectory directly towards us so it's tail wasn't visible from our position but it certainly had a brightness and brilliant white glow like I've never seen before.

Even the way it disappeared is not common to a meteor falling. Those have a tendency to glow then gradually extinguish (fade) as they break up entering the atmosphere. This thing just switched off without any fading and it was certainly way bigger than anything I've ever seen in all my years of flying.

My co-pilot was equally baffled by what we both clearly saw

 

[pdib]

"Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.

Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.

When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company."

. . . fyodor​

 

[pdib]

Not to belittle your experience, Steve. It's just . . . . that's where my mind went (that, and I thought maybe it was a story problem . . .)

Weird tho! Thank goodness they didn't nab you up and probe you!


. . . . . or .. . . . ummmm . . . . do you have any "lost time"?

 

[CaptSteve]

Nope last I checked no lost time and all my orifices (or is that orificie) are squeaky clean

I guess it's one of those things that make you go hmmmmmmm

 

[pdib]

for sure. It's so strange; but then where can one's brain go with it? just like a long pause of . .. .. .. . . .

 

[penguiness]

My co-pilot was equally baffled by what we both clearly saw

Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the matter after you have had a few days to think about it. I am assuming you have knowledge of flight characteristics of military aircraft so yes, it would be of interest to me to see what you think in a few days.