"The required ascensional motion is given to my aerostatical apparatus (which I intend denominating aeronef or helicoptere,) by means of two or more superposed horizontal helixes combined together."
And a translation of Jules Verne has it in 1872:
"We can look forward to such contrivances..which we can call streophores, helicopters, orthopters..by means of which man will become the master of space."
[BUT: I'm being told that an autogiro is not a helicopter.]
I leave it to you to read about...
1. treasure hunting by blasting rock in Palisades Park
2. the sad death of Apple Annie
3. the importance of developing "solitude capacity" in children
4. the misguided "obsession" with sending everyone to college
The one I really want to read is "Athletic Awards for Girls Opposed/Those Who Are Acclaimed in Sports Become Emotionally Upset, Parents Told." Some expert was warning that if you praise girls for sports achievement, it will make them egotistical. Sports should be about "the development of sportsmanship and character, rather than competition and reward."
Somehow that article includes this passage, which I like because it gets me back to my original topic"
You can call your antagonist a "dictator," but that means he's quite something.
And you can't beat something with nothing.
Meanwhile... if you're out in Palisades Park and inclined to "blast" "rock," blast this:
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Helicopter is actually helico-pter, pter being wing.
The craft is an autogyro, the rotor not being powered except by airflow from forward motion. A regular propeller provides the forward motion.
The rotor sees itself as a wing always gliding downhill.
It's not a helicopter, it's an autogyro. They are not the same thing.
Regarding autogyros and wingless airplanes versus helicopters -- the autogyro does not power the rotating wing while the helicopter does. Just drive an autogyro down the runway with a powered front or rear horizontal propeller and the wind gets the top rotating wing spinning. The "Little Nellie" aircraft of James Bond's You only live twice is perhaps the most widely known example of an autogyro.
https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Nellie
So, feminism in fact means never sticking to one story or consistent set of goals? What's old is new, as JK Rowling and a TERFs initiate Wave 438,249,281 feminism to defend against transgendered males.
The Joe Biden account tweeted what they think they have accomplished:
Over 14 million jobs added
Historically low unemployment
Three of the strongest years ever for small-business creation
Fought to cancel $137 billion in student loan debt and deliver relief to over 3.7 million Americans
Yeah, Mary Beth, but what they aren't telling you is that under Biden a record number of people lost their jobs and their businesses. Thanks to Covid policies.
Thanks for the correction about the autogiro/helicopter distinction. Noted in the post.
Ann, you’re a beauty. That front page of the NYT is a classic.
Chances are pretty good that the autogyro was a Harold Pitcairn one. He was the son of John Pitcairn, founder of PPG, of Bryn Athyn, PA, a close suburb of Philadelphia. Henry tried hard to get an autogyro into every garage.
Fascinating family. The house tour of their home, Cairnwood, was the most personal I've ever taken. John was a significant member of the New Church and a labor and health reformer - he was anti-vaccination and would not live in the city because of bad air. So, 50% right is not too bad (note that he was against all vaccines, which I venture to state those who recognize the problems with the Covid vaccines generally are not).
PPG is still a Fortune 500 company. Pitcairn Aviation, which Harold founded to promote his planes and autogyros, became Eastern Airlines - seems that I vaguely remember them; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., his manufacturing arm, closed its doors in 1948.
"The "Little Nellie" aircraft of James Bond's You only live twice is perhaps the most widely known example of an autogyro."
I'd forgotten that one. I remembered the one in Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior).
"X is bad and we're not X ≠ a winning strategy."
But that isn't the Dems' strategy. They are also running on open borders, abortion on demand, debt cancellation, green subsidies, bigger "tax credits," trans support, transitory inflation, Iran coddling, Russia-Russia, and as always, tax and spend.
Vote rigging is not nothing.
Roosevelt was not a dictator, though he would not leave the office and he did threaten to increase the Supreme Court to as many as necessary to get his way. Just some of the fears so many have about Trump.
As for athletic awards to women? It's interesting that they were worried about the female egos getting too large. We've gone from wanting to keep the female ego in check, to promoting the female ego beyond men, and all other living (or dead) creatures in the universe (seen any movies or limited TV series lately?). And we've gone from all of that to awarding men, who claim to feel like women, with women's awards. And if we frown on that, we're told that we need to support those men who feel like women because we need to build up their egos.
I'd say I'm confused, but I'm not. Just wondering where it turns next. You cannot make this shit up.
I've long argued that 9/11 was the mortal blow to the GOP, although it was slow to take. It saved W's presidency- absent the attacks the Dems would have won Congress in '02, impeached him, and he likely would have lost reelection- but at the cost of cementing the Bush faction in positions of influence over the party. The GOP could run on "kill terrorists and cut taxes" for a couple of election cycles, but by 2008 it had worn off and suburban whites resumed their leftward shift. The result now is a party where a large portion of the people running it and financing it don't actually believe in the party platform, and have in fact failed to advance it whenever they've been given the opportunity. They're still trying to run as if it's 2004 and they can get away with "Dems bad!"
A wise woman once told me that better than nothing is a surprisingly high standard.
Sebastian said...
They are also running on open borders, abortion on demand, debt cancellation, green subsidies, bigger "tax credits," trans support, transitory inflation, Iran coddling, Russia-Russia, and as always, tax and spend.
right! the Dems' strategy is: X is Bad and We ARE X
"That front page of the NYT is a classic."
It's page 17!
An autogyro cannot hover. Without forward motion the rotary wing will stall. Furthermore, the stall is a symmetrical, typically to the right. The advancing blade has more lift than the treating blade, which if not handled skillfully, can be fatal in a heartbeat. This is why autogyros are so rarely seen at exhibitions and kit plane fly-ins. In the early 1930’s, autogyros were frequently cover art subjects in enthusiast magazines like Popular Mechanics and Electrical Experimenter as “the flying car of Tomorrow”, or some such nonsense. The Germans experimented with them and got little more than a few dead test pilots, though the Kriegsmarine bought a rotary kite from Focke-Achgelis called the Sandpiper to use as an elevated observation platform. The bridge of a u-boat was only about four meters above the water, so a man-carrying kite could provide a lookout with high “crow’s nest” to spot the enemy. The Sandpiper was essentially an autogyro without a motor. It depended on the surfaced u-boat to tow it into the wind on the end of a long cable. It worked except when it didn’t. Most u-boat captains left the Sandpiper ashore.
The whole front page is fascinating.
Before FDR, there was WW, and before McCarthyism, there was Palmerism. Paint it black.
Trump has promises...
the best promises are promises kept.
Draining the swamp.
Deporting all the illegal entrants. (no small task)
Killing every Biden executive order
The NYTimes was a remarkable newspaper at one point, wasn't it- that was page 17. The insipid stuff they print today on the front page can't hold a candle to what is on that page from 1934.
The "Apple Annie" movie mentioned was directed by Frank Capra and was remade by him in 1961; titled Pocket Full of Miracles, with Bette Davis as Apple Annie. I remember the 1961 version as being quite funny and sweet. It started as a Damon Runyan story. Worth seeing.
"The NYTimes was a remarkable newspaper at one point, wasn't it- that was page 17. The insipid stuff they print today on the front page can't hold a candle to what is on that page from 1934."
And this is a screen shot of only part of the page. There are 2 more columns, one on each side of what I'm showing, and there's the whole bottom half of the page.
At the bottom of the page there's a story of a man needing to pay a $30,000 judgment and the receiver trying to seize, among other things, his valuable Russian wolfhound, Bozzie. The man won after an expert testified the dog was only worth $10.
Speaking of autogyros, the world's biggest fly-in is held just 90 miles from Madison. Meadehouse ought to make a day trip to Oshkosh next July, an interesting subject for a photo essay.
… and the deleterious effects of athletic awards for girls.
Since in the 2020s whether or not a woman’s team is a winner seems often to be determined by how many biological males it has on it, maybe the Times really was right all those years ago.
Wow! I missed the page 17 reference right in the post.
"Lady for a Day"
How prescient of them...
A very large lady just 'won' a professional golf tournament the other day and now hopes to parlay that into a spot on the LPGA tour.
A minor league with minor players, but they did hand out cash that went to a man.
And to be honest, I've played with better players at my old club. Plus 4 won the event.
The good news is, that score doesn't stand a prayer of doing any damage with the real professional gals...they're really good.
Lincoln needed someone other than Little Mac to command the Army of the Potomac, and it was suggested that "Anybody" would do.
He replied that he needed somebody, not anybody.
Althouse writes, "At the bottom of the page there's a story of a man needing to pay a $30,000 judgment and the receiver trying to seize, among other things, his valuable Russian wolfhound, Bozzie."
Russian wolfhound, which was current in 1934, was changed to Borzoi in 1936. Borzoi just means swift. Maybe the man knew that word and derived Bozzie from it. That's not the breed name in Russia, however, it's Psovaya Borzaya Gonchaya, silky swift hound.
How can girls compete for athletic awards against trans athletes since it is literally a competition of something with nothing, at least externally?
Correcting my 9:45 comment:
Furthermore, the stall is asymmetrical, typically to the right. The advancing blade has more lift than the retreating blade, which if not handled skillfully, can be fatal in a heartbeat.
iPadOS tries to be helpful, but often only achieves treachery.
Freddy Cannon was giving of a little bit of a creepy vibe at the ole park there.
In 1962, 26 was the new 42, er, uh something like that.
Vote rigging is not nothing.
And, I wouldn't characterize Democrat strategy as "X is bad and we're not X" - I'd characterize it as "X is existentially bad, the stakes are literally life and death, and we are your only hope to hold off X!"
Palisades Park was written by Chuck Barris of Gong Show fame.
The first 45 I ever bought was Freddie Cannon's "Transistor Sister". Thanks for the memories.
I think the most well know known use of an autogyro was in the Mad Max movie, The Road Warrior.
The first 45 I bought was a 1911. Sold it to a college buddy in Isla Vista. He was one of those chubby super smart libertarian rich kids who looked and acted like Philip Seymour Hoffman. We blasted a few caps off his Del Playa bowling alley apartment deck into the Pacific. Good times
Do you have a reference for that, Q? The only stalling I could find caused by low Forward airspeed in an Auto gyro was the horizontal stabilizer. As you know in a helicopter retreating blade stall is due to excess forward airspeed.
Hands Ward beat me to it, but I too remember the Apple Annie story. Really was a sad ending for her and hubby.
Incredible that was page 17. I was suprised at the Apple Annie death, I thought she was just a made up person.
Freddie Cannon?
Nature's takin' over my one-track mind (f**k-me-aah, ooh)
Believe it or not, you're in my heart all the time (f**k-me-aah, ooh)
All the girls are sayin' that you'll end up a fool (f**k-me-aah, ooh)
For the time being, baby, live by my rules (f**k-me-aah, ooh)
When I settle down
I want one baby on my mind
Forgive and forget
And I'll make up for all lost time
If she's put together fine and she's readin' my mind (stop!)
I can't stop (stop!) I can't stop myself (stop! stop!)
Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again and again and again and again
That was the way my 14 year old ears heard it.
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