X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.103] (HELO ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 943552 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:44:41 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.103; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.10] (cpe-065-187-243-074.nc.res.rr.com [65.187.243.74]) by ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j4E3hpL4015109 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 23:43:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <428573F7.3030407@nc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 23:43:51 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Aluminum side housings References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine George Lendich wrote: >Ernest, >Don't get me wrong I'm actually working on aluminium housings as we speak - >however the truth of the exercise is fully evident when costs and weights >are real, rather than anticipated. Machining anything is a hugely expensive >part of any development and there's a lot of machining in end housings. > > > Oh, I'd never try to machine my own. The only way it could happen is if someone had them to sell. A guy has to know his limit and own up to them, you know. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."