RE: College Qualifications , Degrees………

Check out a thread a while back called “what do you work as”. It amazing, noone here works in the aerospace/aviation industry, noone flys for the military, civil or sport aviation (except for wysiwyg). What we all need to do is go to our local AFBs and ask pilots and technitions to visit this site to offer hands on info, instead of the oddball fluff thats been cloging the AFM forum as of late.
BTW-Ive never been to uni, and have no professional experience in aviation.

RE: Guy Fawkes

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-11-02 AT 05:33 PM (GMT)]When I lived in Peru, they clebrate christmas with fireworks at midnight. Fireworks are such a big thing in peru that litterally a fog of gunpowder smoke covers the city.

RE: Boats!!

I have an interest in sailing yachts and yacht racing. I dont really care as to whether or not someone would refer to my interest as “spotting”, whatever terminology someone uses makes no difference to me. I have to say I dont like yacht design in the past 10 years or so as it has been completely dominated by Bruce Farr. Hes know for ultra light “dingy” yachts which are overly sensitve and in my opinon unseaworthy. Farr was given charge to head the IMS rating fomula, so basically every IMS racing yacht built today has to conform to his stupid design concept. He also designed the formula used in the volvo round the world race (formerly whitbread), and you can tell by the drastic changes that were made between the yachts that raced in 94 to those in 98, that the reality of the southern ocean forced him to abandon his wide skimming designs for a more conventional narrower deeper displaced designs. In my opinion the best racing formula today is the IACC (americas cup class) is the ultimate in the history of yacht racing, the last americas cup challange in the heavy NZ conditions bringing a level of racing never before seen by mankind. You have to be carefull when buying a cruising yacht nowadays as many builders try to emulate current racing trends and creat boats that are really tender and sqirrly.

RE: Which countries build the best cars and why?

I dont know much about car mechanics. But Ive been told by people that german cars are overly complicated and difficult to repair compared to say japaneese cars which are very simple and easy to repair.

RE: For dcfly and Hand…and anyone else whos interested.

Not to insult anyone, but I think the whole charvel/jackson thing is bunk. It started in the early 80s when Eddie Van Halen told everyone that the custom guitar he uses was built by charvel(The white & black striped one that appears on the first VH album which he later painted over red which resulted in the red, black and white guitar he was famous for). So ofcourse charvel goes from being an absure custom guitare shop to a world renown guitare maker, and jackson, their best guitar tech spins off is own label. But guess what, a while later after some research, its found out that charvel never made that guitare at all, and that it was just something made by some guy that charvel sold for him.
I personally believe that guitare makers are missing out big time on sustain by not using more solid materials for body and neck of guitars. Do you know why the les paul only has a thin layer of maple laminated to the surface of the body? Because the original les paul was solid maple, and this hard, dense wood made the guitare sustain TOO MUCH.
Kabir- I know of some guys whove had custom fretted necks with indian scaled microtones. You should take advantage of your rich musical heritage and bring something new and advanced to the rock world.

RE: Which countries build the best cars and why?

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 26-10-02 AT 06:54 PM (GMT)]I personally like sedans with hot engines, acura, infinity, BMW and mercedes all makes these type of cars. But the absolute best looking sports car is the lotus elige.
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RE: The European Music Industry Is A Joke

There is one good group from europe, T.A.T.U. , 2 hot (for eachother) ruskie teenage girls, yowzah!
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RE: rapid fire artillery

It was definately an artillery piece rather than a morter because of the simple fact that you see 3 shell casings ejected upwards torward the barrel. I appeared to be a standard caliber barrel for an arty, not wide and short like a morter. The barrel was pointed up in a high elevation. Unfortunately they didnt show much of the base of the weapon as the photog was pointing his camera high to get a view of the rounds being fired. You could also see the barrel recoil rapidly in what I would guess is a 3 round bursts shot in about a half a sec followed by about 3 or 4 secs for the next burst.