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Andrew Puddifer <typhoon@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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>   Please stop cross posting to aus.aviation.

Will comply.
>
I was very saddened to learn of the Russian Submariner victims just now.
Someday I pray we'll see the importance of designing safety and reliability
into our military gear. And to get integrity into machines, you have to
first get integrity in their designers, manufacturers, and users.

 Some things are more dear than money.  I pretty much started and ended my
career working on the DSRV (Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle) since the
Thresher went down and related gear. Tom Clancy was on target about the
Russian Boomerang  Torpedo in RED OCTOBER (Antimissile missiles, same
thing).  He was all wet about the DSRVs though.  He should get his poop from
enlisted sailors, like I always did, rather than admirals, who have no
interest in sailor safety.

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KRC <Shill@usguv'mint.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:32:53 GMT, "Paul Gooding"
> <ppgooding@rocketmail.com> wrote:

I went down to Mexico
> >and bought a few dozen bottle rockets and I've been firing
> >them at passing jetliners.  One of these days, right to the moon!!
> >Sooner or later, one of these guys is going to make a go-around
> >and get a little low over here, and -- pow! -- right in the kisser.
> >I've put titanium tips on these little mamacitas and bundled them
> >into triplets.  They will go right through anything Boeing makes.
> >Mark my words, Stan, you are going to see some fire-works if
> >you know what I mean ;-)

Paul, the pointy end goes up, not down. You light the down end; that's where
they put the fuze. I hope this helps.  Only French missiles go down, not up.
(attempt at humor)  Jerry Lewis and I are really big there - because they're
such short people. If you can't tell up from down, ask the CIA/NTSB
directional scientists.  It's your taxes that pay for answers like that.
Just keep repeating to yourself, "Pointy end up, pointy end up, pointy end
up!"  It works for me.
>
>   There's your problem, Paul, you're think too small.  I personally
> prefer those Estes model rockets you can buy at the hobby shops.  The
> ones ith the payload chamber are really good, you can pack 'em with
> gun powder or other explosive.
>
> KRC

All I know, KRC, is if you see a new heatseeker model rocket on the shelves
in your local hobby shop, don't buy and shoot the very first one. Even if
it's on sale. Give it to Paul to launch. :-) And step waaaay back! That's
where we all came in, isn't it?

 Especially the new BAMM! model model (Boomerang Anti-Missile Missile). I
suggested they call it the LENNY BRUCE, for obvious reasons. I think the
Australians are trying to upgrade their country's Standard Missile. Which
way is up for those who live DOWN UNDER? I hope they have a CIA/NTSB to tell
them like we do. :-) What do you expect from a country whose citizens are
all descendents of criminals/convicts? They already tried to give our acting
President a preproduction BAMM! model model to shoot off on the White House
lawn.  I love their sense of humor.

The top selling feature of the Australian BAMM! heatseeker model model is it
seeks the nearest warm moist black hole measuring on/over 100.2 degrees F.
If it works correctly, when Paul lights the fuze it'll literally blow his
mind - the hard way! :-)

 I can see the headlines now:

 Paul Gooding credited for discovery of unknown mystery location.
 Toy Rocket found stuck "where the sun don't shine" (near L'Enfant Plaza)

I miss Sam Kinison. Anybody that can make Ethiopian/Sommalian
hunger/starvation funny is a better man than me.

PS  Did anybody catch the missileconspiracywacko (FIRO) press conference at
L'Enfant Plaza today?  I just got up.  Were any reporters permitted to
attend? :-)  It's not mentioned on CNN. I suspect this top story is being
pre-emped by an even more amazing story - about the Ellen Degeneres - Ann
Heche breakup.  CNN claims Heche is acting queer.  Who woulda thought it!? I
reckon that's why CNN is number one. They discover stuff we never would have
suspected.   s

"What an asshole!"  Lenny Bruce