Re: [ATM] David's Phoenix

["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

Thanks, Guys

She will fly again. Thanks to my special adopted son Matthew, who will make 
me look better than I would ever look in person, when he is done with his 
work for the project. He is the co-author.

Howard Hughes' precision made plywood giant flew once; the consensus is that 
he was afraid to take it back into the air again (or to even get it up out 
of the ground effect that was so obviously the source of the lift that held 
the giant aircraft up, for those of you who have seen the motion picture 
documentary of the actual flight; he had 15 degrees of flaps down, and in 
the film, you can see that the Goose was actually flying in a level, or even 
nose down angle of attack) so it did not quite fly in the sense that Howard 
wanted it to. Howard maintained the Hercules in flying condition for 
decades. How sad that he did not have quite enough faith in himself to go 
out, and get in her again, and crank up all eight engines, and fly her over 
Long Beach, and downtown Los Angeles, etc. The giant airplane would not have 
failed him (if he took care not to load her up with a big payload) I am 
sure. Captain Musick, with his "China Clipper", took his beautiful four 
engined flying boat, the "China Clipper", over San Fransisco for a triumphal 
return in his beautiful airplane after the first flight to Hawaii; he said 
he was only flying on fumes when he got back, but he didn't disappoint his 
fans in the golden city by the sea, when he took the beautiful silver Martin 
airplane over the city. Howard should have climbed, turned around, and taken 
the Hercules over Los Angeles.

The "Lunar Phoenix" will fly again; I hope one example of her shows up at 
each of the major star parties, and I am sure that each of the attendees at 
the major star parties will probably have someone who has a fairly large 
truck, or a fairly large older van. And a fairly large fork equatorial 
mounted instrument in it, which he can unload and put together by HIMSELF 
before the stars come out.

The folder for requests for this work is filling up. The design is scalable; 
easily scalable, at time of layout. Perhaps a few will show up with much 
more transportable (more compact) versions of the mount.

Thanks for large response- thanks for many requests. How surprised you all 
will be, after yoiu build your mount and use it, when at 1,000 X 
magnification, one of the simple three versions of the all thread rod sector 
drive holds the planet you are looking at anchored so solidly in the field 
of view at that high magnification that you won't believe it. Not so much as 
a twitch as if a breeze nudged it. Image will appear anchored in concrete at 
1,000 X.

Although design dedicated for large Cassegrain optics, there is no law 
against making this fully latitude adjustable mount in a version, say, for 
10" Newtonian optics. All of you who have requested this work, on the verge 
of being launched, will wonder why you used Dobsonians before; no field 
rotation, no squirrelly-ness aiming and tracking at near zenith, and other 
wonderful advantages. The wheel is a very old idea, and it is still around.

So is the symmetrical equatorial mounting.

Ask Frank Melsheimer. Or, just read his comments here. His large, middle 
sized, and medium small fork equatorial reflectors are all over the world, 
and people pay a King's ransom for each one of them.

http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Harbour/AltAzEq.html

Thanks everyone for helping me fill up that folder with requests for the 
Lunar Phoenix-

Dave
N9606H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GF" <gary@rcn.com>
To: "Russell Jocoy" <russjocoy@hotmail.com>
Cc: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] David's Phoenix


> Yup.
>
> Russell Jocoy wrote:
>
>>To all on the list, I am tired of hearing about AOL, EOL, DSL, and 
>>anything
>>else ending in "L" or the word Yahoo... This list exists as is and has for
>>years. I don't understand the technology but it works for me. No I don't
>>want to pay for words on a screen, and won't... I would rather watch David
>>Harbour's Phoenix fly again, cumbersome or huge as it may be this is the
>>man's swan song and I can respect that..........    Russ Jocoy    This is 
>>an
>>ATM site.... I think?? or has it already ended.. anybody out there???
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