Doug you have not been to the shop recently. There is a big blue box of
mysterious temporal origin in the middle of the shop. There is also a bag
of jelly babies on the table near it. This particular blue box was a dream
for the past 3 years, but its almost complete. I agree, lets keep talking
about impossible sounding ideas, and then like the blue box, these
impossible things will appear.
-Geno
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Elijah Richter <elirichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
well, yes, this too
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And a shop that was five times bigger than our current one...
On Apr 6, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Elijah Richter <elirichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If only we had someone at the shop who knew something about simulators...
On Apr 6, 2016 9:24 AM, "Doug Philips" <dgou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Whoa, that is cool!
I might not be able to get there during the week until I am retired
people myself...
As to having a simulator at the shop, that'd be pretty rad, esp. one
that goes upside down.
I wonder what kind of maintenance that takes...
Shop tour:
... and over here is our flight simulator similar to the one...
... and over here are the modified maintenance robots for the simulator.
Think of them as roombas with wrenches :-).
This also makes we want to revisit the Railroad Museum in Strausburg
PA...
(Last time I was there I was on vacation, but was also sick so really
didn't enjoy it)
-=D
On 4/5/16 8:58 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka wrote:
Went on the trip yesterday. Managed to see most of the exhibits (onlyspent a minute at some of them) Its a little overwhelming. Thousands of
airplanes. Many amazing airplane engines on display also. They have the
airplane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, an SR-71 (my favorite), F-117,
Spirit bomber, and pretty much every other airplane you ever wanted to see.
They also have some space exhibits. It was funny to see the staff trying to
use an ordinary handtruck to lift the gemini space capsule... I wonder how
they did after I left.
aircraft. You control the simulator with the joystick and the simulator
The simulator was awesome. You fly a fighter jet and shoot down enemy
literally rotates 360 degrees. Its programmed such that to get the enemy
planes you have to go upside down, A LOT. It was a little intense at first,
but then you get used to it. I wish I had one of these at home, or like I
been saying a while ago, we should have one at the shop when we get a
bigger shop.
retired people, the place was empty.
Definitely go on a weekday. Other than a couple of schools and
<mailto:gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
-Geno
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Gene Kern <gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I only managed to get thru 2 of the 3 buildings in 4 hours.
Good luck getting thru the Nation Museum of the USAF in 5 hours.
putting 600 miles on my car!), and driving out to Dayton Ohio early monday
Still worth the tour.
Enjoy
Gene
On 3/30/2016 11:21 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka wrote:
Hi, if anyone is interested im renting a car (because I'm not
morning to visit the air force museum (properly, i.e. I will take my time
and drool at every airplane and jet engine for 30 minutes) and that
includes riding their awesome awesome fighter jet simulators which
physically rotate you 360 degrees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzMOaPaq1gc
Akron. They went to NYC Maker faire with us last year, and I have been
Also I want to visit our good friends at SynHak makerspace in
wanting to come check out their space.
am planning to be on the road at 8am. Get there by noon, explore the museum
It will take 4 hours to get there and 4 hours to come back. I
until it closes at 5, and head back to Pittsburgh with a quick stop in
Akron at SynHak.
because the museum will be almost empty, and I need a 3 day weekend.
This will be an all day thing. It will also be on a Monday,
working, and interested in joining me, let me know.
On the off chance that someone is free on Monday and not
swamps me with errands on weekends, and the only way to get some vacation
It was originally going to be on a weekend, but my family
time is to take a day off from work.
Cheers!
-Geno
