Wing Flappers

AAC Cadet Leader · 16 April 2004, 09:04 AM

Rod,
Parle vous?

Moi, un puh.

jempie,
Sprechen Sie?

Moi, un puh. Merci vous spell check, jempie on un puh?

timjnf · 16 April 2004, 05:19 PM

And still others call me many things that aren't fit for print.

-Tim

AAC Cadet Leader · 16 April 2004, 05:36 PM

Aw, I don't believe that!

Rod_Filan · 17 April 2004, 12:03 AM

Jempie,
Why would you have to translate English ? You speak it fluently. I just thought you typed with an accent !

AAC Cadet,
Being Canadian I've had to live my life reading the entire French side of cereal boxes before realizing it and turning it around just to read it all over again in English ! Thank God for bi-lingual packaging and online translators.

VBR
Rod

AAC Cadet Leader · 17 April 2004, 07:26 AM

Rod_Filan Posted: Apr 16 2004, 11:03 PM

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AAC Cadet,
Being Canadian I've had to live my life reading the entire French side of cereal boxes before realizing it and turning it around just to read it all over again in English ! Thank God for bi-lingual packaging and online translators.

We oui, Monsiuer!

jempie · 17 April 2004, 09:27 AM

Hi everyone!

I am Flemish , Dutch speaking and if you don't take heavy to my typos and some incorrect spelling of some words, I manage it to express me indeed quite well! Problem is I don't use very much the spell check avialibility here when answering!
Should have to do it more!

It's a bit the same for my French where I have by times the spelling problems at hand when needing to use é,è,à,ê and ç for more!
But mainly the correct words are there!

German , I followed 2 years evening school to learn it 1992-94 somewhere being 48 years old! Didn't use it quite much, so it's my worst language to write in it! Althoug I do understand it quite well and speak it quite well too!

In general quite good speaking all three languages for common daily use!
But technical expressions and such and for sure my vocabulary is a bit poorly stuffed! It's more elementary knowlegdes in languages I have indeed!

I need by times to read and reread some messages to understand everything!

VBR

Jempie

P.S. With spell check I had 3 errors made in here!(from which 2 typos&#33

AAC Cadet Leader · 17 April 2004, 12:06 PM

jempie Posted on Apr 17 2004, 08:27 AM

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But technical expressions and such and for sure my vocabulary is a bit poorly stuffed! It's more elementary knowlegdes in languages I have indeed!

jempie,
I find your English quite a lot of fun to read. Puts a whole new perspective on expressing ideas with words. Not poorly stuffed, but rather poetic! And educational! Indubetibly so!

Rod_Filan · 17 April 2004, 04:22 PM

Ms Cadet, I agree whole heartedly ! Please visit the JPL Airship collection sometime. Wherever possible, I've tried to retain the expression of Jempie's lectures in the annotations I've written for the images. And educational indeed !

However, another Ornithopter... this one should turn your crank

http://204.83.160.230/archive/m/images/190...Ornithopter.jpg

Jempie may find a plan drawing of the 1908 De la Hault Ornithopter as the "wings" are not evident in the photo. Correctly stated, the lemniscate exceeds the boundary of the image.

I hope my description of the mechanism isn't too vague and pseudo-technical. But until I see a drawing its all a figment of my imagination.

I'll quote Jempie here to help twist your brain around it :
"There were indeed two (&#33

horizontal two bladed horizontal "8" sized propellers! They were placed on a vertical axis on top of this structure. A bit alike those helicopters with two rotors on same axis! These turned around horizontally, meanwhile as well around their horizontal axes!"

VBR
Rod

AAC Cadet Leader · 18 April 2004, 10:21 AM

Rod_Filan Posted: Apr 17 2004, 03:22 PM

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Ms Cadet, I agree whole heartedly ! Please visit the JPL Airship collection sometime. Wherever possible, I've tried to retain the expression of Jempie's lectures in the annotations I've written for the images. And educational indeed !

??? More info please!!! Spell it out and underline it for me.

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However, another Ornithopter... this one should turn your crank http://204.83.160.230/archive/m/imag...rnithopter.jpg

It surely does! And the handlebar moustaches lift my sk... sk... er, scarf!

What's the structure made of? Lead pipe?

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I'll quote Jempie here to help twist your brain around it :
"There were indeed two (&#33

horizontal two bladed horizontal "8" sized propellers! They were placed on a vertical axis on top of this structure. A bit alike those helicopters with two rotors on same axis! These turned around horizontally, meanwhile as well around their horizontal axes!"

Poetry in motion!

AAC Cadet Leader · 18 April 2004, 10:33 AM

...and Rube Goldbergesque! BTW, did Rube Goldberg ever design any flying machines?