Bob Hoover's Blog

Flying, homebuilt airplanes, working with wood, riveted aluminum, welded steel tubing, fabric, dope and common sense. Gunsmithing, amateur radio, astronomy and auto mechanics at the practical level. Roaming the west in an old VW bus. Prospecting, ghost towns and abandoned air fields. Cooking, fishing, camping and raising kids.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Orphaned Engine

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Most Experts Aren’t. That's something the late Smokey Yunick said back when I was a seaman deuce. Every month my mail delivers one or...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Cancer's End-game

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Multiple Myeloma destroys bone; it literally eats it away, usually starting with the lower spine. But the cancer itself is a disease of t...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Doing Your Vitals

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'Way back when, a lot of teachers were also nurses. Mrs. Doyle was one such lady who returned to teaching Third Grade and serving as t...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Cancer

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Yes, I've got it. No, you can't have it. You have to grow your own. You don't catch cancer. It's not a head-cold or a ...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Chemicals

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The chemicals shown on the left are all you needed to assemble an early Volkswagen engine (ie, 1100 & 1200). The valves were so small t...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Rudyard Kipling

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My grandfather thought Rudyard Kipling was the worst sort of bigot even while admiring him as a man of letters. He had quite a few of Kipli...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

The Apprentice's Toolbox

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They were told to be there at 0730 and, with rare exception, they always were, at least on that first all-important day. There was never les...
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No, not THAT Bob Hoover :-) (ie, Robert A. "Bob" Hoover from Tennessee and perhaps the best pilot in the history of flight.) The problem is that all Roberts get Bob-ed at birth and there isn't much we can do about it. When posting something about aviation I generally use 'R.S.Hoover' to prevent confusion.
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