www.pulse-jets.com

No cables, just the tail light. It's the faring after the tail feathers and for its size (4 ft in most directions) amazingly light A mates given me the tail cone from a DC3, I have plans but it's project number 437 on the list. Mark - Does it still have the control cable pulleys? If so, will you be ...

Spooky place for sure but I could spend days playing there ;-) have you seen the air plane art that some artists are producing from old aircraft parts? I will see if I can find a link for it. Viv http://www.motoart.com/ Very up market furniture / ornaments from aircraft pieces. A mates given me the...

Mark wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opini ... ref=slogin

Thanks Mark. That's what still gets me excited.

Oh Hell. I did stay up but signed off when the balloon escaped. Merde!

http://www.legrandsaut.org/ Damm. They are only updating in French but it looks like they are inflating the balloon, the weather is good and launch is one hour away per babblefish. I'm too tired to stay up and keep readng. I hope it's all good when I get up in the morning. Here's a thumbs up from do...

http://www.legrandsaut.org/index.php?lang=eng
Looks like he is on his way. I hope he makes it he's had a huge number of setbacks.

"The difference between you and me? Well I've given up all the Gods but you've given up all the Gods bar one." I come from a strong Methodist background (Big singers, like to belt those hymns out, very anti drink and gambling, though the having wine with a meal is now pretty much essential at my fol...

NICE!!
Good one James. Looks like you have mastered the mysteries of g code. Are you using Mach 3?

The machinists mantra "You can ask for light, strong and cheap but you can only have two".

My favourite computer geek pirate joke
Parity error "pieces of seven"

Hmm a pity it isn't feasible on a small scale. Somewhere in my disorganized list of bookmarks is a link to a proposal exploring a rotary rocket motor. The rotation of the motor provided suction, pressurization and mixing and feed and aerospike type chamber. This link is a step along the way http://w...

http://laffin-gas.com is the web site. The weekend run had really bad luck, lots of rain, someone totaled the timing system so no runs for a couple of hours, track drier hit a wall and then after waiting for 1 hour an air leak. Look in the diary section of the site. Fingers crossed for this coming w...

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The youtube clip is of Jean-Marc Mouligné who died in a Base jumping accident some time after the catapult flights.

http://www.hommevolant.fr/hommevolant/b ... e_GB1.html

I used to watch this chaps progress in building a H2O2 rocket end then the site disappeared about 4 years ago. Any way I went looking and found in 2006 he was going to launch himself with a cross bow at 10G 10 miles up plus he has a jet engine for boost. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/star...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed Sounds like the usual Creatioist ID woo woo clap trap. By the way Velikovsky's books should where you would expect them, the remainders bin in the crap science fiction section. I read them back in the day when they were being touted as "...