Liquid Fueling Layout

[Mark]

http://www.loctite.com/int_henkel/locti ... anguage=en
http://65.213.72.112/tds5/docs/561-EN.pdf

[hinote]

To continue my diligent work on undermining Bill's thread

No problems, Bruno, Mark, etc.

I'm done with this thread, so hijack away!

OTOH I'll be sure to let you know when we should all toe the line.

[hinote]

He developed a pulse jet simulation that was capable of demonstrating cyclic operation, which is better than anything we're playing with now.

I'm still bothered about why the "Kentfield group" (consisting of Kentfield, Cronje--and a handful of others) didn't further pursue the possibilities they must have seen as inherent in valveless pulsejets.

If a small group of "garage scientists" can advance the art--imagine what a well-oiled university group must be capable of!

[Jonny69]

As far as I can tell, they each did the R&D necessary to get their doctorate or masters (as the case may be) and then stopped, as is common in academia.

Yup, this was basically what it would have been like if I went ahead and did my PHD on pulsejets. I'd have slaved away for 3 years and become a serious specialist in the field but then probably never worked in the art at all, so the research would have just gone onto the pile. Bit of a waste really.

But then when you do it for a living, where's the fun in doing it as a hobby?!!!

[Bruno Ogorelec]

But then when you do it for a living, where's the fun in doing it as a hobby?!!!

Well, in the academe, it can be one and the same thing. My late father was a research physicist specializing in semiconductor properties. He headed a semiconductor research department at an institute run by the university and also taught at the same university.

He wanted to be a research physicist since he was maybe 16 or so. Never wanted to be anything else. He became one and spent his entire life doing it and he liked it just as much as he expected to. For him, the division between 'work' and 'fun' was completely nonexistent.

Things he would do for fun, like the examination of relaxational oscillation (which led him to pulsejets, among other things) he'd do both for fun and in line with his work. In the end, he'd publish a paper in some scientific journal.

The university never minded the fact that the topics of his papers often strayed very far from his core specialty -- amorphous semiconductors -- because even his papers on the construction of the crab's eye, liquid telescope lenses, tooth growth, hydraulic rams and energy efficiency, to name a few, brought kudos to the institution, too.

He never quite understood why other people mostly split their lives into 'work' and 'fun' parts.

[Mark]

Or as some captured soldiers said, bend over and take it like a man.
Mark

[Mark]

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[Hank]

Bruno. Your father studied compound eyes! How neat. Could I get a transcription of his stuff?
The Dragaonflys here are an object of my study.

Regards, Hank

[Mark]

Some bad jobs.
Mark
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[Bruno Ogorelec]

Bruno. Your father studied compound eyes! How neat. Could I get a transcription of his stuff?
The Dragaonflys here are an object of my study.

Regards, Hank

No, not compound eyes, but a very peculiar kind of eye that a carb (or a crayfish) has, which uses a pinhole instead of a lens. Apparently, a similar design was used to make an X-ray optical device. I don't have that paper at home, but the university library will probably have it.