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.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Chugger

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The above is a sketch of 'Chugger,' a minimum cost design meant to be fabricated using wood from the typical lumber yard. The engi...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Harvesting Data

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Most guys call it blueprinting. You measure the part then check the measurement against the 'blueprint.' Which hasn't been a r...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

The Follower Phenom

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Uh-oh. What's this? In the military one of the targets used on the pistol range was a silhouette of the upper torso. To maintain our ...

On the Wearing Out of Things

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. Strop my old cut-throat razor as good as I can, that ten-cent throw-away it's laying on will give me a better shave. Oh, maybe not fo...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cure!

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Gotcha! Well... sorta gotcha. It's actually ' cure '. Lower case and quotes... because it is a magazine. Yup, they seem to hav...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Need to Bleed

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Every Tuesday or Wednesday my wife drives me to a blood-lab over behind Tri-City Hospital where one of several phlebotomists accepts my dona...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Getting Started

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. "Okay," the newbie sez in his message. "What do I have to do to get started? I've got almost a hundred dollars saved ...
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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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