Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?

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

Hey,

My good friend- we are going flying, retina trouble or not, legally or not,
as soon as my millionaire aunt decides to fall over. She has me marked down
for the price of a good Stearman. All of my mother's side of the family goes
on schedule, according to my brother, who keeps notes on these things. They
either go when they are 77 (my aunt is 77) or they wait until they are 90
something... (sigh).

The most advanced giant luxury airliner ever build (over 5.5 million cubic
feet of hydrogen, 777 feet long), was built of little dinky stainless steel
tubing- it was considered to have the strongest hull of any giant airship
ever built- just had the wrong engines). All of the stainless steel tubing
was made by a proprietery process where it was wound, spirally, from a long
strip of flat stainless steel.

No one was ever "smashed", or "pulped" in the crash of a giant airship; they
either burned or were drowned (about 90 some sailors in the case of the
Akron; her sister ship was then fitted with lifesavers, and only about 2
drowned when she went down). R-38 and R-101 were "Callenger cases", lost to
criminal negligence.

Stainless steel by all means.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?


> My mother's next door neighbor, who was a high school class mate of mine,
is
> a urologist.   He implants hinged rods of steel into a man's gum rubber,
and
> it does, indeed, become stiffer.   Last job I did for him was a long time
> ago: programming a serial port interface for a PTM (penile tumescence
> monitor).   You wear this thing on your telescope tube at night when you
> sleep, and it measures when the tube is stiff and when it is not.   That
is
> how they can tell if you really need the steel rod or the v1gra, or if you
> really need a session with a Las Vegas or Hollywood "therapist".
>
> No v1agra required, but I wish my retina could be fixed.
>
> . . . Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>
> To: <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [ATM] Aluminium or stainless steel?
>
>
> > <<
> > Huh?
> >
> > Suppose the tubing is made of gum rubber.  I stuff it with a
> > tight-fitting rod of steel.  Doesn't it become stiffer?
> >
> > Instead, suppose I plug each end and then fill the tube with something
> > under pressure, doesn't it become stiffer also?  (V14gra effect,
> > so to speak).
> >
> > When a piano string is tightened, does it require more force to deflect
> it?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > >>
> > Lets all be stupid together!
> > Bob May
> > bobmay@nethere.com
> > http://nav.to/bobmay
> > http://bobmay.astronomy.net
> >
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