Rainy Sunday

Cool! Time to put together another PT-19 for the fleet. And, you can tell us how those left-handed props work out, too.

The Right Handed Mark

Nice Picture Crank!

Looks like you have a good bit of goodies to keep you occupied Kim. Weather here has been crap too.

Mind you the rain we always need, but I can do without the high winds!   

Spent most of June RVing to WVA and back... crummy long winter and this spring/ early summer has been wetter than normal (good thing down here) BUT, every day is 15 gusting to 35... I have not flown once this year (accident wiped out 90 days)

fredvon4 wrote:
Spent most of June RVing to WVA and back... crummy long winter and this spring/ early summer has been wetter than normal (good thing down here) BUT, every day is 15 gusting to 35... I have not flown once this year (accident wiped out 90 days)

Yeah...had some good days here that I missed due to my schedule, but gonna try to keep an open calendar to let me log some serious time from now on. Just got to deal with the summer heat now...need to be tough, I reckon...

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Probably gonna take the pilots out of Bernie's new fuselage, and will post it here when I do, in case someone's got a PT restoration project going on...

P.S. Fred--------Good again to know you're recovering from your accident !!!

Thanks, doing well and mostly the accident damage is healed. Still have upper back issues but working to strengthen that area.

I need to drag out the stooge and fly a few laps and see if I can keep feet under me and ass off the ground. Grand kids laugh when I pretend fly and get dizzy in about 7 to 10 rotations even using focus techniques. I won't be "contest ready" this year, what the hell, I get another season to practice.

On the other hand...back to weather.

This is a rare June down here where my entire property is still very spring wet n green. Usually by now the strong sun, and no rain, would have most of the yard (that I don't water) browned out and not needing cut. Also we have not hit 100 yet and that is a blessing, usually we creep up there in late May.

Short Political BS that is not intended to hijack Kims thread: I do NOT believe in " Man Made global Warming"       BUT.... me thinks some how the global weather cycles are changing....I am in the camp that believes mother nature is a fickle bitch.

fredvon4 wrote:

Short Political BS that is not intended to hijack Kims thread: I do NOT believe in " Man Made global Warming"       BUT.... me thinks some how the global weather cycles are changing....I am in the camp that believes mother nature is a fickle bitch.

Agreed on that !

If "THEY" say the world is millions of years old and "THEY" only have records back to 1894. How do "THEY" know if the earth is warming? It could be in a cooling trend, we don't know. I just heard on the radio, so I haven't fact checked it yet. But the big new "July 2012, the Hottest month" since 1936, was a big lie, "THEY" changed it back to 1936. Of course in 2012, it was huge news and in 2014 no news about how "THEY" were wrong.

Bigfoot, Unicorns, global warming....... Myths.

I believe God steers this boat. Duke your synopsis is spot on.

duke.johnson wrote:If "THEY" say the world is millions of years old and "THEY" only have records back to 1894. How do "THEY" know if the earth is warming?  It could be in a cooling trend, we don't know.  I just heard on the radio, so I haven't fact checked it yet. But the big new "July 2012, the Hottest month" since 1936, was a big lie, "THEY" changed it back to 1936. Of course in 2012, it was huge news and in 2014 no news about how "THEY" were wrong.

"They" only have records going back a hundred and twenty years. The Chinese have records going back 3,000 years. Guess what? This is normal. The normal 30 year cycle. Remember back in the 70's when they said we were headed for another Global Ice Age? I do.

The Remembering Mark

Global warming is now referred to (in the UK) as climate change. It appears to me as a device for increasing taxation and fuel duties.
 
I find the concept that climate change is a result of man's endeavours. Although there are no precise records - it is apparent that for quite some time from 43 B.C. - England had a Mediterranean and wine production was evident.
 
Yet in the 1600s, we had severe Winter conditions.
 
River Thames frost fairs were held on the tideway of the River Thames at London in some winters between the 17th century and early 19th century, during the period known as the Little Ice Age, when the river froze over. During that time the British winter was more severe than now, and the river was wider and slower, and impeded by Old London Bridge.

Even at its peak, in the mid-17th century, the Thames freezing at London was less frequent than modern legend sometimes suggests, never exceeding about one year in ten except for four winters between 1649 and 1666. From 1400 to the removal of the now-replaced medieval London Bridge in 1835, there were 24 winters in which the Thames was recorded to have frozen over at London; if "more or less frozen over" years (in parentheses) are included, the number is 26: 1408, 1435, 1506, 1514, 1537, 1565, 1595, 1608, 1621, 1635, 1649, 1655, 1663, 1666, 1677, 1684, 1695, 1709, 1716, 1740, (1768), 1776, (1785), 1788, 1795, and 1814. So, of the 24, the by-century totals are: 15th 2, 16th 5, 17th 10, 18th 6. Frost fairs were far more common elsewhere in Europe, for example in the Netherlands. The Thames freezes over more often upstream, beyond the reach of the tide, especially above the weirs, of which Teddington Lock is the lowest. The last great freeze of the higher Thames was in 1962-63.

During the Great Frost of 1683–84, the worst frost recorded in England, the Thames was completely frozen for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 11 inches (28 cm) in London. Solid ice was reported extending for miles off the coasts of the southern North Sea (England, France and the Low Countries), causing severe problems for shipping and preventing the use of many harbours. Near Manchester, the ground was frozen to 27 inches; in Somerset, to more than four feet.
 
These were pre the "Industrial Revolution".
 
Natural events have a greater more immediate effect. The Krakatoa eruption in 1883 resulted in the following climate change

In the year following the eruption, average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 °C (2.2 °F). Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888. The record rainfall that hit Southern California during the “water year” from July 1883 to June 1884 – Los Angeles received 38.18 inches (969.8 mm) and San Diego 25.97 inches (659.6 mm) – has been attributed to the Krakatoa eruption. There was no El Niño during that period as is normal when heavy rain occurs in Southern California, but many scientists doubt this proposed causal relationship.

The eruption injected an unusually large amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas high into the stratosphere, which was subsequently transported by high level winds all over the planet. This led to a global increase in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) concentration in high level cirrus clouds. The resulting increase in cloud reflectivity (or albedo) would reflect more incoming light from the sun than usual, and cool the entire planet until the suspended sulfur fell to the ground as acid precipitation.
Do we always know what is going on?

OK Kim, I am sorry...my comment did hijack your thread


Remembering Mark

I too still grin when I think of the mid 70s and Time or Life Magazine that did a long story on the impending doom of global cooling...they wrote about a government scheme to collect Lamp Black and distribute it on the poles to help warm the climate and melt some of the dense ice pack.... "What moroons!" as Bugs Bunny would say