The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[MagicaPractica]

Maybe a knee against his kidneys and a big nudge.

Or a bed with an adjustable frame. We have a Sleep Number beds. It's amazing how tipping the head of the bed up a little gets rid of a lot of snoring.

It is better these days.

Tonight, munchkin got me up. I was actually sleepng. sigh

Tomorrow will be the first of three nights with my mother visiting. Not much chance of uninterrupted sleep.

 

[TxRad]

Got dragged to bed early, not that I'm complaining you understand. And now I'm wide awake early. Housemate and Houseguest are all cuddled up and snugly under the covers. I should wake them up for spite but all I can do is smile.

Chloe, my brain might get things wrong but very seldom is the seat of my pants out of calibration.

Okay, fresh coffee for the early crowd. You know who you are.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Maybe a knee against his kidneys and a big nudge.

Or a bed with an adjustable frame. We have a Sleep Number beds. It's amazing how tipping the head of the bed up a little gets rid of a lot of snoring.

Lol. My guy's big, he doesn't notice nudges from me and he only snores when he's on his back. He's well trained now to respond to violent assaults in the darkness of the night. He either grunts and turns over and all is good or he grunts and wakes up and all is much more interesting.

Good morning Tex. Inhales. Aaahhhhh, Coffee for sure. Early morning writing underway. 3 chapters is today's target. Maybe 4 if things go fast. I have the first sex scene coming up so no further research needed for that but she's off to West Point soon so there's a chapter on "Beast" and those first few weeks of First Year.

 

[Handley_Page]

Definitely. and thx

Now Stella's learning to fly in an old Cessna and then a small civilian helicopter. So today was writing 2 chapters that weren't in my original plan. I hit my 5k words for the day but I'm not any further ahead. - have to write harder tomorrow and over the weekend to catch up.

I have to figure out where to post this when it's done. It's definitely a lot lower on the sex as a % of the story than any of my others. Altho' there's still a lot of sex. But the action/battle sequence at the end is great. I think. IMHO of course. LOL.

30 degrees was right according to the manual. I'm going to have to go to an Air Show now and look at one. Not sure about going for a ride though.

Never forget that a Helicopter does not 'fly'. the general consensus is that it's so bloody ugly, the Earth repels it.
Have you considered trying a Flight Simulator ?
You may get a lot of practical stuff there. (try "Flight Gear")

I have a few photos somewhere of a helicopter standing on its nose, and another few of a helicopter doing a roll. (See also HERE)

The Westland Lynx is said to be capable of rolling, (due to a titanium head??)

 

[TxRad]

Never forget that a Helicopter does not 'fly'. the general consensus is that it's so bloody ugly, the Earth repels it.
Have you considered trying a Flight Simulator ?
You may get a lot of practical stuff there. (try "Flight Gear")

I have a few photos somewhere of a helicopter standing on its nose, and another few of a helicopter doing a roll. (See also HERE)

The Westland Lynx is said to be capable of rolling, (due to a titanium head??)

Morning HP, your coffee is on the counter.

I was aboard a CH53 when it did a loop de loop. Talk about a wild ride. The engineers said it would work, the pilot and the rest of us were, "Uh huh, this we got to see."

It worked but we found out later the engineer had left out one word. Theoretically.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Well, I've been skydiving since I was 17 so I'm used to going up in little aircraft and jumping out. The best ones are when you climb out and hang on to the struts and jump from there. That's a buzz. But there's something unnatural abut helicopters. I'll have to go take a look at one this summer. Maybe an Air Show this summer as well.

 

[TxRad]

Well, I've been skydiving since I was 17 so I'm used to going up in little aircraft and jumping out. The best ones are when you climb out and hang on to the struts and jump from there. That's a buzz. But there's something unnatural abut helicopters. I'll have to go take a look at one this summer. Maybe an Air Show this summer as well.

Helicopters and airplanes use the same principles to fly. A wing moving through the air creating a positive pressure on one side and a negative on the other. The difference is in the fact that one is stationary and the other rotates.

On fixed wing aircraft you see emergency parachutes. You never see them on helicopters. Does that mean helicopters don't crash? Check out auto-rotate as a way of making an emergency landing.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Helicopters and airplanes use the same principles to fly. A wing moving through the air creating a positive pressure on one side and a negative on the other. The difference is in the fact that one is stationary and the other rotates.

On fixed wing aircraft you see emergency parachutes. You never see them on helicopters. Does that mean helicopters don't crash? Check out auto-rotate as a way of making an emergency landing.

Yes, been reading up on helicopters - jumping out with that giant lawn mower overhead kind of gives me the shudders. Sitting right under a giant blender.

All this research is fascinating. And looping in a CH53? Guinea pig time?

Once this story is up you guys are going to have to tell me how I did. Coz Stella is not Chloe, Stella loves Apaches.

 

[TxRad]

Yes, been reading up on helicopters - jumping out with that giant lawn mower overhead kind of gives me the shudders. Sitting right under a giant blender.

All this research is fascinating. And looping in a CH53? Guinea pig time?

Once this story is up you guys are going to have to tell me how I did. Coz Stella is not Chloe, Stella loves Apaches.

If you really want to get into a bad ass bird, look into the "Spook" and "Puff the Magic Dragon".

From what I read earlier, so far so good.

 

[Handley_Page]

If you really want to get into a bad ass bird, look into the "Spook" and "Puff the Magic Dragon".

From what I read earlier, so far so good.

Do you mean that Hercy Bird with the bad-ass cannon mounted in the middle ?
There was a Mosquito in 1944/5 which had a 6lb gun mounted in the nose; and interesting concept; pilots were quoted as saying that the aircraft seemed to actually 'stop' when it fired. (See also HERE)

but do please tell me more about the "Spook".

 

[ChloeTzang]

If you really want to get into a bad ass bird, look into the "Spook" and "Puff the Magic Dragon".

From what I read earlier, so far so good.

Now Puff I have heard of, but Spook?

 

[TxRad]

Now Puff I have heard of, but Spook?

Spook was a C-130 with Gatling guns and a belt fed M-79 (40mm) grenade launchers down one side. The first one I saw was at Dang in '69. They were painted flat black so the first you saw of them was a dozen tracer lines falling out of the sky.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Puff and Spook are basically the same platform, one that constantly evolves. Now they sport a 105mm out the side!

 

[TxRad]

Puff and Spook are basically the same platform, one that constantly evolves. Now they sport a 105mm out the side!

Welcome back Bear.

Yeah, I've seen some video on that monster. Talk about raining hell and metal.

 

[Handley_Page]

Puff and Spook are basically the same platform, one that constantly evolves. Now they sport a 105mm out the side!

Good Evening, Bear.
I've a camera lens that is that size.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Good Evening, Bear.
I've a camera lens that is that size.

A 10cm wide lends? What are you doing with that , HP? Taking portraits of aliens in another galaxy?

And I found a great Cobra Air Show ride video

And here's what Stella will be up in "Fields of Gold" to after she qualifies

 

[Handley_Page]

A 10cm wide lends? What are you doing with that , HP? Taking portraits of aliens in another galaxy?

And here's what Stella will be up in "Fields of Gold" to after she qualifies

Not quite Chloe. That length refers to the 'focal length' of the lens (see here - although I use Canon generally). I have a Telescope for remote galaxies!

Now my guts seem to have settled, I think I might manage some breakfast;
this WILL include COFFEE !

 

[ChloeTzang]

Not quite Chloe. That length refers to the 'focal length' of the lens (see here - although I use Canon generally). I have a Telescope for remote galaxies!

Now my guts seem to have settled, I think I might manage some breakfast;
this WILL include COFFEE !

Me is here. I'll join you for breakfast and coffee, HP. Trying to decide on a new coffee mug while I write this story. Decisions decisions.....

Sorry guys, I'm a little fixated on this story right now.

Only for another week.....

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/frontright/mug/images/artworkimages/medium/1/ah-64-apache-attack-helicopter-randy-steele.jpg?&targetx=240&targety=56&imagewidth=320&imageheight=221&modelwidth=800&modelheight=333&backgroundcolor=494747&orientation=0&producttype=coffeemug-11https://www.lionheart-designs.com/inventory/coffee%20mugs/Military%20Patriotic/AH-64%20Apache%20coffee%20mug%20CUP52207%20single.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

Not quite Chloe. That length refers to the 'focal length' of the lens (see here - although I use Canon generally). I have a Telescope for remote galaxies!

...

I have one of these (Zenith Photosniper supposed to have been designed for the KGB):

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SMUAAOSwofxUmJr6/s-l300.jpg

http://www.novacon.com.br/lenses04a_arquivos/image002.jpg

I had two but I gave one to a nephew whose job was to look for infringements of planning law. With a photosniper he could take pictures of illegally constructed buildings without getting close enough to be detected.

The metal box can be used as a stand for the photographer. It has been tested to 350 pounds weight.

But after carrying that around I need coffee.

 

[Hypoxia]

Not quite Chloe. That length refers to the 'focal length' of the lens (see here - although I use Canon generally). I have a Telescope for remote galaxies!

105mm is medium size for artillery and not especially long for traditional photography. That's a 'normal' lens for 6x9cm camera formats like my old folders. I think my physically *widest* lens is a chunky Rodenstock XR-Heligon 120/1.8 xray lens (German). It's 70mm wide and weighs about two pounds (870g) by itself.

Maybe I have something wider? [/me scans lens library] Oh yes, the Rubinar MC 1000 Makpo 1000/10 mirror lens (Russian) is 115mm across the front and weighs about four pounds (1760g). Mounted on a shoulder stock, it looks like a rocket launcher. Use prudently.

BTW here's a nifty cheap trick. I don't know if it works with a Canon metering system but it's just great with Pentax. Obtain a cheap bellows and various lens-mount adaptors for it, and enlarger and projector lenses. ELs are razor-sharp; PLs give a period look. I've found great glass by Nikon, Leitz (Leica), Schneider, Zeiss, others of the best, sometimes literally for pennies. Use them to MAKE pictures, not TAKE pictures.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm blushing at my ignorance. - the only camera I've ever owned is my iPhone.

 

[oggbashan]

I'm blushing at my ignorance. - the only camera I've ever owned is my iPhone.

This was my first camera:

http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/images/Houghton-Ensign-Ful-Vue.jpg

It is barely more than a simple box camera such as a Kodak Box Brownie but it looked as if it was more complex. Before that I had used my mother's Brownie:

https://www.petervis.com/electronics%20guides/No%202%20Brownie/brownie-box-camera-no-2/brownie-box-camera-no-2.jpg

 

[ChloeTzang]

OMG. That's a camera? Okay, I have to come back to this after Fields of Gold is done and take a look. I've never been that interested in photography. The images, yes, but not the camera's themselves. But now you have me intrigued. I guess these are early post WW2 or around then?

But now, back to writing. Done 4k words so far this morning as draft, got 8k more to write and then editing to do! And the same again tomorrow.

Inhales coffee !!! Aaaaaaah! Neurons are sparking again. Back to my keyboard. My hero just amputated his own leg. And now I have to write a chapter about Blackhawks coming in.... I think I've crossed the line to war porn here....

....Before that I had used my mother's Brownie:

https://www.petervis.com/electronics%20guides/No%202%20Brownie/brownie-box-camera-no-2/brownie-box-camera-no-2.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

OMG. That's a camera? Okay, I have to come back to this after Fields of Gold is done and take a look. I've never been that interested in photography. The images, yes, but not the camera's themselves. But now you have me intrigued. I guess these are early post WW2 or around then?

...

The Ensign Ful-Vue is a late 1940s simplified version of a camera produced in the 1930s.

The Kodak Brownie is early 1920s but similar ones were made as starter cameras until the 1950s.

I also used one of these and still have it:

http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/Images/C89-2.JPG

It is a Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic camera. You could open the flap on the back, write with the metal stylus to record date and place or whatever and hold the open flap to the light for a couple of minutes. Whatever you wrote would appear in black on the negative and white on the print.

It was popular with soldiers during World War One. They weren't supposed to take pictures at the front but could hide a Vest Pocket one. The Autographic feature was introduced in 1915.

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/the-vest-pocket-kodak-was-the-soldiers-camera/

Coffee? More coffee available with scones, clotted cream and a choice of jam.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Morning. Turkey in the oven. Breakfast made, coffee in. Birthday lunch for sibling number two in about 4 and a half hours. What shall I do until then? I'm thinking shower, get laundry together and make apple salad. Then poetry writing and searching for old ones. My poem didn't get into the show I wanted but I'm going ahead with the book and will put it out anyway.