Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:53:12 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product
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That's quite a story.
Iv'e been around military fighter aircraft myself, and have been an avionics
crew chief on an air force fighter, and I can't imagine anyone using a
totally unauthorized, non-aviation product on a multi-million dollar high
performance aircraft, tho don't doubt that it happened.
As simple a thing as an automotive clamp on an aircraft has killed people,
or nearly.
He sure must have used a lot of it for it to get on the brakes so seriously.
Say ! .....maybe some aircraft disc brakes would work well on a vanagon !
Somebody'd better start checking for that in military surplus online.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Evan Mac Donald
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:18 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product
Yup. BTDT. B-52s have wipers for the crews' forward windscreen, but not for
the two forward-looking cameras. Guess what us ground-crew types used on the
cameras' windows... had to be careful, tho, because one of the screens was
electrically charged, and could easily be damaged with the wrong stuff used
on it.
The Air Force had its own in-house magazine directed at its ground
maintenance crews, to help raise awareness of common dangers, thier
consequences, and how to avoid them. One of my personal favorites was the
F-15 fighter crew chief who was at a fighter competition (Red Flag, a yearly
exercise), who wanted his airplane to look good. He used Armor-All on the
tires, for that shiny look. Unfortunately, it also got into the brakes, and
made the brakes not work - no friction! The unsuspecting pilot taxied right
off the maintenance ramp, and into the dirt at the end of the flight line.
The moral of the story was "Armor-All = broken bird"!
"Paul N. Oliver" <bpbuyers@TDS.NET> wrote:
Rain-X is a "weaker" solution of a product that is used in aviation on the
windshields/windows of airplanes. The "good" stuff must be applied under
very "strict and clean" conditions or you will make the dirt and grim a
perennate part of the surface. Great but wicked stuff (most aircraft does
not have wipers)
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers"
To:
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product
> Anybody tried Rain-X?? Which side of the fence does it fall on? It is
> for real and really work - like a pistol-grip fly gun , or is it like
> Sky-hooks, Blinker Fluid, Paper Bag Stretchers, Bird-tail salters, moose
> catchers, Polar Bear pea traps, and the like?
>
> As for the fly gun, it's for real and does work - I have one. I can nail
> a fly in mid flight with that sucker. Immensely useful when camping and
> on picnics.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Tabe Johnson wrote:
>> The Blinker Fluid thread got me thinking about other actual
>> products that exist. The one I see all the time that cracks
>> me up is windshield washer fluid with Teflon. Because it,
>> you know, uh... makes the wipers slippery?
>>
>> Anyone got anything else like that?
>>
>> tabe johnson /87 westy
>>
>>
>>
>
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