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I'm back!!
We've arrived safely here in southern California, and are settled into our new house (which we are just renting, but hell, it's a house!). It's weird how fast this has all happened, but things are going as well as can be expected.
I took some self-portraits the other day for the first time in weeks. This is one of them. Also, this is my first self-portrait session at our new house.
It's good to be back on Flickr!! I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone. :)
Lehigh Valley Railroad Alco S-1 252 on display at the Williamsville Depot in Williamsville NY with Arcade and Attica Railroad boxcar 510 and Lehigh Valley caboose 95050.
Static is caused by the imbalance of electric charge between two objects. Here, the balloon has lost electrons, making it positively charged, and is trying to get them back from the bits of paper, causing an attractive force.
Static (ambient) port(s) - they can be on two sides of the hull, opposit to each other and connected in a T - work in conjunction with the pitot (ram air) tubes on the front end of the plane to determine an air pressure gradient for the system to work with, so it gives the correct airspeed, feeds the altimeter, and vertical climbing indicator.
A very clever, and potentially critical system, because it calculates the thinner air at higher altitudes in as well.
It is such an important system, that if the pilots discover incorrect read-outs on their instrument panel before reaching V1, they abort the start so they can brake without overshooting the rwy and return to the blocks to have the system checked.
The system is named after Henri Pitot ( 1695 - 1771 ) a French hydraulic engineer, who discovered in 1732 that if you put an L shaped tube with the opening directly towards the waterflow in a river, it would drive a column of water up precisely to the height from which it would flow down to gain the same velocity as the river water has.
Now you would say that there are other ways of measuring a waterflow, even in that time.
Yes there were, but he was interested in the speed of water on various depths.
2013 Pandoracon held in the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Springdale. From their site before last year's event "Pandoracon is a brand new convention in Cincinnati, Ohio for fans of science fiction, fantasy, anime, LARP, comics, gaming, cosplay, and various other flights of imagination. . . . The programming of Pandoracon is built around genre fans gathering together to celebrate their joy of all aspects of the Dork Side of the Farce."
Static Guy provided us with our first and welcoming introduction to Pandoracon and Steampunk. He seems to be a fixture at the local events and always appears to be having a great time. Much after I took this shot, I was told he is into rat rods. We'll have to have a related conversation when I see him next.
In the areas where my parents live they were having a hard rubbish collection, so I managed to pick up some old TV sets, which used for lighting at my 21-years-and-17-days-old party.
I've got a small problem at work. I'm in a cozy fluorescent-lit cubicle. I sit in this plastic chair, typing at a plastic keyboard, which sits on a plastic desktop.
I have no idea whether I'm getting a positive charge or a negative charge, but believe you me, some electrons are changing hands over here, as whenever I stand up and touch something, I get a nasty shock.
The weather has been anything but dry, so I don't see any relief coming from that direction. I'm wondering if there might be something easy that I could set up to keep myself grounded while I'm at my desk, to leak off those Coulombs as they arrive and not have to do the capacitance discharge mambo whenever I get up to go to the photocopier, or to get myself a bowl of gruel, or whatever it is they keep in that trough.
I sat under a bridge during a lightining storm for 2 hours and this is the only shot out of 200+ thats usable. Still loads of fun. Location is under the bridge at Percy Priest lake off mt.juliet road
The 1982 open day at Brétigny, south of Paris, was one of the best I have ever been to in terms of the static display.
Much of this was made up of oddball aircraft operating by test establishments such as the CEV, or in the case of this Falcon 20C, EPNER which is the unit that trains test pilots.
Back in the day, we did not even stay in a cheap chain hotel, but in a tent some miles away. I remember travelling there in fog, but it cleared just before arrival to reveal a static park almost free of people. As I think it was traditional in France at the time, the place did not begin to fill up until lunchtime being a Sunday. It's very different now, and maybe going to church on a Sunday is not so widespead as it once was?
Falcon 20C no.22 basks in the new found sun wearing the code 'CS'. I believe the aircraft still serves a useful purpose by being an engineering airframe in the Paris area.
As for Brétigny itself, that finally closed in 2012.
Brétigny-sur-Orge
12th September 1982
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19820912 21326 21326 22CS Fa20 EPNER clean std