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Oops! I thought I had submitted this already. These are some sketches I did at Babscon while sitting in the sports bar at the hotel. This is an example of a little challenge I'll give myself now and then. Come up with some design ideas within a certain period of time. Think of three, fill in the blank, designs within the time you eat your lunch. Since we were close to SFO Airport and I like planes anyways I decided to see how many aircraft designs I could come up with in the normal time it took me to finish a pint of beer.
I had no preconceived ideas in my head and waited until the waitress delivered the beer before starting. In fact I purposely watched the game on the bar TV to keep myself from pondering ideas. One pint later I had four designs.
Now you are probably counting planes and saying. "But Baron there five not four planes." I started the air racer in bottom right but ran out of beer before finishing, but since it was part of this design exercise I decided to throw it in anyways.
I had no preconceived ideas in my head and waited until the waitress delivered the beer before starting. In fact I purposely watched the game on the bar TV to keep myself from pondering ideas. One pint later I had four designs.
Now you are probably counting planes and saying. "But Baron there five not four planes." I started the air racer in bottom right but ran out of beer before finishing, but since it was part of this design exercise I decided to throw it in anyways.
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I do admit that one of the defining moments for me as a young kid was meeting Burt Rutan at the Mojave Air Races in the 1970s. His designs looked like something out of science-fiction and the fact that he was willing to take the time to answer questions about aviation from a young kid left an impression on me.
I think it was a Poul Anderson novella I read about a spacecraft powered by beer and pretzels. "A bicycle Built for Brew" Wonderful story, funny but entirely plausible within the setting. Well worth checking out of the library. Buying a copy is collectors zone.
This is one of the stories that was allegedly written in a three way bet between Heinlein, Anderson, and Hubbard, where they posed each other a ridiculous premise for a story and the had to write and sell the story.
This is one of the stories that was allegedly written in a three way bet between Heinlein, Anderson, and Hubbard, where they posed each other a ridiculous premise for a story and the had to write and sell the story.
You know? the design in the lower right corner reminds me of the racing plane named "Tsunami." I'd see the aircraft over at the Chino Air Museum when I used to go to the IPMS meetings there. I was told that the aircraft was not a fancy, fixed up P-51, and was built from "The Ground up."
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