Good Afternoon Base Campers!
We are still the same diligent crew
- and we still lead the Small Teams Race

It's been a while since I have been seriously off-topic.
So since this trek runs so smoothly, I'll run off-topic.

You have probably all heard about my buddhist friend whose model daughter said
'No, thank you'
when Mr Trumpf asked her for a date. This will probably not be the last time I tell it.

I have a new friend who worked as a French teacher and I spent the day with her.
She cannot drive.
Not that she hasn't tried.
Her teacher at her driving school said he had only had two students
who needed 103 driving lessons and flunked the test two times:
Karen herself and Niels Bohr - Nobel laureate in physics.
Niels Bohr was said to have crashed his car after which he gave up driving completely.

Little Mermaid,

Il faut vraiment de très gros problèmes de vue, pour ne pas pouvoir conduire. Etre borgne par exemple, qu'on n'a plus aucune notion des distances.
Sinon, c'est juste n'importe quoi. Enfin, du manque de confiance, ça peut se comprendre, je ne veux pas juger. Mais ça s'apprend, c'est comme tout.

Quand on conduit/pilote, on ne fait pas des tas de calculs, on simplifie. En voiture, la distance de freinage, est environ égale à la vitesse au carré.
Si je roule à 50Km/h, il faut environ 250m pour s'arrêter. A 60Km/h, 360m, etc ... (Plus vite, il faut quand même prendre le facteur dérapage en compte)


Le 'petit bébé' qu'on voit là, il va à 200Km/H en gros, rien pour un avion. Et celui que j'ai piloté, était d'une version antérieure. Mais, le kiff ?




It really takes very big problems of sight, not to be able to drive. To be one-eyed, for example, we have no longer any notion of distances.
Otherwise, it's just anything. Finally, lack of confidence, it can be understood, I do not want to judge. But it's learned, it's like everything.

When we drive / pilot, we do not make lots of calculations, we simplify. By car, the braking distance, is approximately equal to the speed squared.
If I drive at 50Km / h, it takes about 250m to stop. At 60Km / h, 360m, etc ... (Faster, you still have to take the slip factor into account)


The 'little baby' we see there, it goes to 200Km / H roughly, nothing for a plane. And the one I piloted, was from an earlier version. But, the kiff?

Are
we
going
to
the Moon
in that little blue and white thing, stefada?

And back again
-i hope?

Well, even if the age is right I don't think I need to spend the extra money for a 'Speedy Body Pass' on this flight ...
Stampede?
To go to the Moon
- AND BACK
on a came-just-after-the-biplane blue and white one!
Hmmmpf!
Losing the fish bowl hats is an advantage, though

I love flying (non-commercial of course) but it hates the heck out of me . Dad had planes and I loved flying with him. He tried teaching me but I simply don't have the feel for it and can't stand not being able to see directly ahead. Not to mention I like "gravity" so I tend to keep it in a slight climb .
As with cars, I like speed and maneuverability so I'd probably be better suited in a Tomcat or Blackbird.

1906? It is amazing what people were doing back then. My grandfather lived in Luxembourg. I've read some old material that says he bought a kit from Mignet. Since he needed somewhere to fly, he was involved in founding an aviation club and getting the first airfield established in Luxembourg. The plane has only one seat as-built, but we can always add another like this.



Since this is a virtual journey we can add as many as needed. Like the roof riders on Indian passenger trains.

Cheers