Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Can anyone read German

I would have to say the same of all the other nice-sounding theories that
we've seen tossed around over the last couple of weeks.

It's not that nobody else thought of them yet, quite the contrary. They have
been tried and found lacking. These ideas have all been around for decades,
and tried out by thousands of different folks, from multi-national
conglomerates to the backyard experimenter. Some have worked beautifully,
some have been big flops. BUT... if the lone "thinker" doesn't avail himself
of the data gleaned from all these others' experiments, he'll be trying to
re-invent the perpetual motion machine.
ALL the great ideas have evolved from other great ideas.

Reminds me of the sign that hangs on the door of one of my classrooms: If
you think training is expensive, try ignorance!

Merry Christmas,
Rick

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From: "Marc" <averys_98550@comcast.net>
To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 9:36 AM
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Can anyone read German

> Abid,
>
> Did he indicate any kind of TBO for his tip jets? The US Army experimented
> with the tip jet helo back in the late 40's and early 50's and scrappped
> the idea because, among other things, jet engines would start or elongate
> after a while and lose efficiency. It was kind of like a glass blower
> swinging a lump of hot glass around on the end of a blow pipe. For decades
> now these things have popped up in the back of magazines as projects you
> could buy plans for. They were said to be powered by a variety of fuels
> from alcohol to propane. The idea isn't new, and in reading his web site
> it seems to be long on claims short on products, and quiet frankly, some
> of the stuff he's claiming in there looks to be very closely related to
> cow pies.
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "apollonorthamerica"
> <apollonorthamerica@...> wrote:
>>
>> Actually here is Ricardo's website regarding this heli ..
>> http://tipjetusa.com/index.html
>>
>> At Oshkosh he was selling his prototype present there for $90k. Nice guy.
>> Just thought you may be interested Bruce.
>> Abid
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