Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Facebook IPO


WHAT A SCAM! this guy is REALLY GOOD! since most of the elite are computer dinosaurs they don't know they are being scammed.... seems I am the ONLY ONE AGAIN, who sees what's going on here... let me explain.
when FACEBOOK IPO goes public, investors will be buying a BUSINESS MODEL... they THINK they are buying the sucessful facebook model.... what they are REALLY BUYING is a TOTALLY NEW, UNTESTED FACEBOOK.... since Mort recently COMPLETELY CHANGED FACEBOOK to a format that is, to say the least, UNPOPULAR with it's users.
so Mort is selling this NEW model and keeping the old successful model to himself.
MARK MY WORDS! FACEBOOK will soon go the way of myspace and Mort will START A NEW social media based on the original facebook...... since GOOGLE PLUS is almost exactly like the original facebook I wonder if he didn't sell it to them.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

50 Mile hike





This is my Amos Alonzo Stagg award. It was awarded to those who walked 50 miles in less than 12 hours. I earned it by walking 50 miles in 10:48 actually. It was in answer to president John F. Kennedy's physical fitness challenge of 1962.
we carried 25lb. packs with water, food, raingear, extra socks etc. The first half of the hike was in perfect weather. The second half was in a cold drizzle and finished in darkness.
On Feb. 22, 1962 more than 100 participants began the hike. Only four finished. I was one.
I was 14 years old.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Brunch with Hillary





It was 1980. The Clintons were on the campaign trail. I was in BRENDA and LANA'S CENTER STREET CAFE, a restaurant by day and a bar/grill by night. It was the heyday of the CAFE SOCIETY in Eureka Springs Ar. I was reading the morning paper. it was between the breakfast crowd and the lunch crowd. I was the only person in the place sitting at the center table with my back to the door. the entrance wall was all glass and let in wonderful light. I first became aware of someones presence when a shadow was cast across my table. as i looked up someone tapped me on the shoulder. The bright light lit them from behind so i could only tell there were two women.
together they asked if they might join me. at first i was startled, because they could have sat anywhere, and then pleasently surprised when they introduced themselves, though I recognised them immediately. it was Betty Bumpers, the wife of sen. dale bumpers, on one side and Hillary Clinton on the opposite side of me. they were out campaigning and had swung by Eureka, not to campaign, but to visit friends.
they ordered food and offered me something. I politely declined, allowing as how i was waiting for my wife to have lunch. they ate thier food while we discussed just about everything except politics. I suppose my shoulder length hair and full beard made them think they'd be preaching to the choir. it was a very pleasent visit with two nice ladies.
when they left, Brenda, the proprietor, came scurrying over and excitedly asked if i knew who just ate lunch with me. i told her sure i did. i asked her if she found it strange they sat with me? she replied OH NOOOO that SHE called them. seems the night before they had attended a benefit party  there , for KESP our community radio station, that i had DJ'd and they wanted some quality time with me. when she explained that i had breakfast/lunch in her establishment nearly daily they asked her to call them when i was in. she did.
that's how i came to have brunch with HILLARY CLINTON. a very smart very nice girl. -----

Saturday, March 3, 2012

EZ eyes sucks

the EZ EYES computer keyboard you see offered on TV is a PIECE OF SHIT! I have only had mine for two weeks of casual home computer use and the letters on the keys are flakeing off.

Obama a fraud

"President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is suspected to be a computer-generated forgery, not a scan of an original 1961 paper document as represented by the White House when the long-form birth certificate was made public," Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said at a press conference today in Phoenix.

This is the major preliminary finding of a six-month ongoing Sheriff's Cold Case Posse law enforcement investigation into the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president.

Having developed probable cause to believe the long-form birth certificate was most likely a computer-generated forgery, investigators began examining other evidence of President Obama's life history.

Investigators additionally have developed credible evidence suggesting:

• President Obama's Selective Service card was most likely a forgery, revealed by an examination of the postal date stamp on the document;

• Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by airplane passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the United States in the month of August 1961, examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are missing records for the week of President Obama's birth, including the dates Aug. 1, 1961 through Aug. 7, 1961.

Beginning in October 2011, the Sheriff's Cold Case Posse, consisting of former law enforcement officers and lawyers with law enforcement experience, examined dozens of witnesses and hundreds of documents, as well as taking numerous sworn statements from witnesses around the world.

In August 2011, 250 members of the Surprise, Arizona, Tea Party, residents of Maricopa County, presented a signed petition asking Sheriff Arpaio to undertake the investigation.

The Tea Party members petitioned under the premise that if a forged birth certificate was utilized to obtain a position for Barack Obama on the 2012 Arizona presidential ballot, their rights as Maricopa County voters could be compromised.

The Cold Case investigators further determined that the Hawaii Department of Health has engaged in what Sheriff's investigators believe is a systematic effort to hide from public inspection whatever original 1961 birth records the Hawaii Department of Health may have in their possession.

"Officers of the Hawaii Department of Health and various elected Hawaiian public officials may have intentionally obscured 1961 birth records and procedures, to avoid having to release to public inspection and to the examination of court-authorized forensic examiners any original Obama 1961 birth records the Hawaii Department of Health may or may not have," said Mike Zullo, the lead investigator in Sheriff Arpaio's Cold Case Posse.

The Cold Case investigators have not yet determined who, when, or precisely how the long-form computer-generated birth certificate released on April 27 may have been forged, but investigators say the evidence contained in the computer-generated PDF file released by the White House as well as important deficiencies in the Hawaii process of certifying the long-form birth certificate establish probable cause that a forgery has been committed.

The Cold Case Posse investigators advised Sheriff Arpaio that the forgers most likely committed two crimes: first, in fraudulently creating a forgery that the White House characterized, knowingly or unknowingly, as an officially produced governmental birth record; and second, in fraudulently presenting to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large a forgery the White House represented as "proof positive" of President Obama's authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate.

"A continuing investigation is needed to identify the identity of the person or persons involved in creating the alleged birth certificate forgery, and to determine who, if anyone, in the White House or the state of Hawaii may have authorized the forgery," Arpaio said.

Among the evidence released at the press conference were five videos the Cold Case Posse produced to demonstrate why the Obama long-form birth certificate is suspected to be a computer-generated forgery.

The videos consisted of step-by-step computer demonstrations using a control document.

The videos were designed to display the testing used by the investigators to examine various claims made by supporters of the April 27 document.

The videos illustrate point-by-point the investigators' conclusion that the features and anomalies observed on the Obama long-form birth certificate were inconsistent with features produced when a paper document is scanned, even if the scan of the paper document had been enhanced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and optimized.

Additionally, the videos demonstrated that the Hawaii Department of Health Registrar's name stamp and the Registrar's date stamp were computer-generated images imported into an electronic document, as opposed to actual rubber stamp imprints inked by hand or machine onto a paper document.

"That we were able to cast reasonable suspicions on the authenticity of the Registrar stamps was especially disturbing, since these stamp imprints are designed to provide government authentication to the document itself," Zullo said, stressing that if the Registrar stamps are forgeries, the document itself is likely a forgery.

The investigators also chronicled a series of inconsistent and misleading representations that various Hawaii government officials have made over the past five years regarding what, if any, original birth records are held by the Hawaii Department of Health.

"As I said at the beginning of the investigation," Arpaio said, "the president can put all this to rest quite easily. All he has to do is demand the Hawaii Department of Health release to the American public and to a panel of certified court-authorized forensic examiners all original 1961 paper, microfilm, and computer birth records the Hawaii Department of Health has in its possession."

Arpaio further stressed the Hawaii Department of Health needs to provide, as part of the full disclosure, evidence regarding the chain of custody of all Obama birth records, including paper, microfilm, and electronic records, in order to eliminate the possibility that a forger or forgers may have tampered with the birth records.

Arpaio went on to say the President should also authorize Kapiolani Hospital, the birth hospital listed on the Obama long-form birth certificate, to release any and all hospital patient records for Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, his mother, and for the newly born Barack Obama, in order to provide additional corroboration for the original 1961 birth records held in the Hawaii Department of Health vault.

"Absent the authentic Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other credible proof supporting the idea or belief that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, as he and the White House have consistently asserted," Zullo said.

"In fact, absent the authentication of Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other proof he was born anywhere within the United States."

Arpaio concluded the press conference by suggesting a congressional investigation might be warranted and asked that any other law enforcement agency with information referencing this investigation be forwarded to his office.

Obamas a Fraud

for his entire career obama said he was born in kenya.... until he ran for president.

when he was campaigning for senator he said he was born in kenya.

reporters reported him as kenyan born...

his kenyan grandmother said she attended his birth in kenya...

the hospital in kenya put up a bronze statue of him (recently taken down after obamas visit ) ) to memorialize his birth there....

roadsigns at the kenyan border proclaimed it as the birthplace of obama...

his recently deceased american grandmother said he was born in kenya....

michelle obama said he was kenyan....

the president of kenya said obamas kenyan birth records have been sealed...

the kenyan ambassador said obama was born in kenya...

old folks in his village said they remember when he was born there...

obamas first act as president was to sign an executive order sealing all his records...

he has spent million$ blocking all attempts to access ANY of his records....

the much touted hawaiaan COLB ( certificate of live birth ) is not a birth certificate but is actually a legal instrument created by hawaii specificly to record foreign births...

the much touted newspaper announcement, which contained no information like the hospital or doctor etc, was simply a legal announcement required as part of the process to get a COLB...

no hawaiian  doctor, nurse or hospital has claimed his birth..

the people who have lived next door to his supposed residence since before his birth say they never heard of him or his family...

a COLB is not accepted even by hawaii in leiu of a birth certificate.

many FOREIGN BORN people have COLB's..

the COLB has been altered three times by the people who posted it to the internet and tout it as genuine.

there is no other records available.

no one remembers him from any of his schools.

no record of his marriage, no one was there, no one knew of thier engagement.

no record of his name change being legal,

no record of his citizenship at all.

the VERY FIRST thing Obama did as president was sign an EXECUTIVE ORDER sealing all his records.

the newly elected DEMOCRAT governor of Hawaii said he couldn't find a birth certificate

a highly placed official in hawaii dept. health SWORE AFFADAVIT there is no birth certificate.

there is record that he was a indonesian citizen and british subject though.

there is record of airlines refusing his mother a flight to america because of advanced state of pregnancy 5 days before his supposed birth in hawaii.

even a dumbass like me has to wonder????


Obama is NUMBER ONE!

President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts

  • First to bypass Senate confirmation for cabinet level appointees.
  • First to collude with Federal Reserve Chairman to monetize the debt.
  • First to run up $4.6 trillion in debt in his first 2½ years in office.
  • First to appoint a tax cheat to head the Treasury Department
  • • First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government

    • First President to Violate the War Powers Act

    • First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels

    • First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

    • First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law

    • First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party

    • First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs  and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as  Shovel-   Ready Jobs

    • First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters

    • First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat

    • First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across            the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions"    

    • First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees

    • First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space.

    • First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places

    • First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"

    • First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It

    • First President to Threaten Insurance Companies if they Publicly Speak out on the Reasons for their Rate Increases

    • First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory

    • First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)

    • First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago

    * First president to grant amnesty to illegal aliens in direct contravention of the law.

    • First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case

    • First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid  on Government Contracts      

    • First President to Golf 73 Separate Times in His First Two-and-a-Half Years in Office

    But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.


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    Sunday, January 1, 2012

    Mark Levin is a

    Mark Levin you can't understand the TRUTH about why the muslims are attacking us ? it's not because we're free and prosperous ASSHOLE! when we WERE free and prosperous everyone wanted to come here and admired us. it's because we are KILLING THIER FAMILIES, THIER CHILDREN by the 100,000's that they hate us. it's because WE OCCUPY thier lands that they hate us. It's because WE SUPPORT THIER ENEMIES that they hate us. It's because we are killing THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS , including children, in four of thier countries who have done us NOTHING, that they hate us. How many innocent civilians have RUSSIA or CHINA killed in foreign countries ? yet YOU ASSHOLES try to tell us that THEY are the bad guys ? NO YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES , like YOU Mark Levin, are the reason we're are hated all over the world. BECAUSE YOU wrap your flag around the worlds BULLY! WE are the mass murderers. THAT'S WHY THEY HATE US!
     you THINK you KNOW who the tea party is.... but you are just another dis-information agent. I am the tea party, and IGNORE THE WARS all you want... WE place ending them as our priority second only to repealing the patriot acts. all your smoke and mirror issues like the debt and etc. is just the neocon way to hijack the movement and most of us aren't buying it. you're so effin STUPID you haven't figured out yet that why we elected Obama was because he was ANTI-WAR and promised to bring the troops home. he LIED of course, but THAT'S THE DECISIVE ISSUE that put him in the whitehouse. so you just keep shooting your stupid effin mouth off shouting SEIG HIEL at the flag and we'll vote to END THE WARS in 2012. too bad you're such a dinosaur that you can't see that WE caused 911 by forcing them to do SOMETHING to get our peoples attention about the 500,000 innocent civilians we had killed at that time ( many more since ) this was after the reports by ( seperately ) John's Hopkins study and a seperate study by UNESCO ( who said we were responsible for at least 250,000 children dieing in Iraq alone and that was many years ago. ) what would YOU DO Mark Levin, if you were in thier place ? we are still killing thier civilians, even in countries who are supposedly our friends, like Pakistan. HOW LONG, Mark Levin, do you expect the world to put up with our BULLYING? we have become JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY ( pick up some history books levin) and our end will come just like them. in a pile of smoking ruins......

    because of "patriots" like YOU.

    Android, Privacy settings, defeat tracking, clear caches

    Android cellphone ? you can clear all the caches ( cookies, history etc.) open your browser and press the MENU button, more, settings. scroll down. the choices are explained.
    If you want to shut off the LOCATOR which tracks your location it's on the list as is the forms data. it's a good idea to clear everything daily. with a computer you can wipe it all everytime you re-boot but I can find no such thing for cellphone. you can also shut of the phone locator by going to APPS/tutorials. STEP 3 gives you the option to turn off the cellphone locator.
    then if you want to clear FACEBOOK caches on your phone
    • Home Screen
    • Menu --> Settings
    • Applications
    • "All" ( or MANAGE APPLICATIONS then ALL, depending on the ver. )
    • Select "Facebook"
    • "Clear Cache". If you want to delete ALL data, choose "Clear Data"
    These instructions work for all apps, not just facebook.
    note you can also FORCE STOP of any APP on each ones page. this is good to shut down apps not in use which save power as well as DATA amount used and frees up RAM to speed the rest up..
    it's a good idea to turn off your GPS when not in use. not only does it save power but hides your location.
     
    I've finished personalizing the opening display on my pantech crossover.it is for OUTDOOR SPORTS so it is SHOCK RESISTANT and WATERPROOF. it was FREE for renewing my contract.it is fully internet capable and I use it as a WiFi HOTSPOT, eliminating my need for a DSL.I am totally wireless now and saving $30 mo to boot.

    Quit smoking by smoking ?

    I know a secret to quitting smoking. I have done it several times ( yuck, yuck ). it's so easy that I can quit and start at will without fear. the secret is SMOKING HAND ROLLED CIGARETTES. they still sell plain tobacco in a pouch. two brands are BUGLAR ( strong taste for really addicted smokers ) and lighter TOPS brand.
    the first notable thing about them is that they are AIR DRIED PREMIUM tobacco, NO ADDITIVES. it is additives that are addicting ( that's why they put them in factory rolled cigs ) as well as HARMFUL to your health. The additives are also what keeps the cig burning after you set it down. NOTE: I have not smoked in a very long time. but it is my understanding that the government has mandated ANOTHER ADDITIVE to stop cigs from constant burning. Handrolled cigs extinguish when you set them down. this is not only safer but dramaticcly reduces the cost of smoking. whenever you want a cig just relight a butt ( same as roach ;) )
    the hardest thing to overcome with quit smoking is what to do with your hands and after meals/sex. having to roll tobacco eases that and soon it is no longer a problem.
    once you have smoked hand rolled cigs for a few months you are NO LONGER ADDICTED and it's a easy matter to quit entirely.
    it's NOT THE NICOTENE that's addicting ( regardless of what they tell you ) it's the ADDITIVES. a side benefit is hand rolled cigs DON'T STINK nearly as bad as factory rolled. it's the ADDITIVES that are poisoning everyone.
    NOW I am a "recreational" smoker. I smoke maybe one cig a WEEK. I had two last month. I can smoke at will without fear of becoming addicted again.
    a pack of tobacco lasts me so long that the dregs get stale. even when I was a two pack a day factory cig smoker a pouch of tobacco lasted a week.
    TRY IT you'll like it.

    Rohr 2-175 flying wing


                             Rohr Wankel powered Ducted fan two place flying wing. see my note for further.

    In 1974, Rohr Chairman Burt Raynes resolved to move Rohr into the light airplane market. Challenging the marketing base of the Wichita Giants would be an extraordinary step in itself. In order to succeed, Rohr had to offer a product so undeniably superior to its competition that prospective buyers and dealers could not resist it. Raynes summoned Walt Mooney and told him to come up with a quantum leap in light aircraft technology. It must have better performance, greater safety, accessibility and comfort, greater economy and lower production cost than any competitor. It must also, in Mr. Raynes' own words, "drive Cessna nuts." Walt was given an adequate budget and promised the services of any Rohr employee he needed. Within budget and on time, Mooney et al. built three airframes (two flying prototypes and a static test article) and two scale models (1/10 and 1/2) for water landing/takeoff feasibility tests (!). By the time the project ended (for reasons having nothing to do with the merits of the airplane), one prototype had accumulated 23 hours in the air.
    Walt took full advantage of Burt Raynes' license to grab the best people Rohr had to offer. The key players on the project team were:
  • Walt Mooney, Designer and Project Manager

  • Bill Chana, Engineer and Project Administrator

  • Mike Voydisch, Propeller and Duct Design

  • Don Westergren, Test Pilot

  • Bob Fronius, Shop Foreman

    At first glance, the Rohr Two-175 looks like an exercise in novelty for its own sake. It is a low wing Delta of stressed skin, fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) construction, propelled by a buried pusher engine driving a shrouded propeller. Its nosewheel fairing doubles as a "rhino rudder." Both the wing and the vertical tail fold for transport and storage. Seating is side by side; access to the cockpit is through huge polycarbonate (!!) panels that open in gullwing fashion. The single stick is mounted centrally, accessible to both pilot and co-pilot. The landing gear is fixed and rigid...no springs. Oh yes: the vertical tail is attached to the top of the propeller shroud. It is very hard to find a single conventional feature in the aircraft. In context, the bizarre features listed above seem not only sensible but ingenious. Take the Delta wing: the whole machine was intended to fit a standard FHA single-car garage, which limited span to 20 feet. Keeping the wing loading and structural loads within reason led to a deep root chord and sharp taper, and voilà! A Delta with folding outer panels. The vertical tail alternatives were a fuselage-mounted tail which would have to be huge to compensate for its shorter moment arm, or a small-area, high AR tail mounted on the prop shroud. The second choice reduced wetted area, so that's what Two-l75 got...with a hinge so it would fit that low-ceilinged FHA automobile hangar. But why composite construction? Surely that was a big technical risk in 1974. The point of that choice of manufacturing technique was to reduce the parts count and the number of manufacturing operations, which it did. The combination of adhesive bonding and molding major sub-assemblies in one piece kept parts count down to a miniscule fraction of that of a two-seat metal airplane, even counting each ply of laminate as a separate piece. Wing cores for the prototype were cut by the hot wire method familiar to builders of modern FRP homebuilt airplanes, but a faster and more elegant method had been worked out for production. The wing, which was the airplane's primary structure, would be built in clamshell molds. First, foam "sugar" would be placed in the mold. Live steam would then be injected to expand the polystyrene beads to the mold contour. The mold would be opened, the core temporarily withdrawn, and "B" stage fiberglass prepreg would be laid up on the inside surfaces of the mold. The core would then be reinserted and the mold would be closed, compressing the core slightly and ensuring even pressure on the laminate. Heat would then be applied in the usual manner to cure the assembly. The use of prepreg would avoid the weight gain problem of a wet layup and would prevent the laminate from becoming resin-starved. The process as a whole is simple, repeatable and cheap. Polycarbonate is both stronger and harder than Plexiglass, both very desirable features considering the huge "glass" area in the cockpit, but the conventional wisdom said it couldn't be molded. Bob Fronius and his team worked out a way and molded three sets. The landing gear needed only to be long enough for the 'plane to rotate without dragging its tail; prop clearance was not a problem. So why not have a fixed, unsprung gear, with the mains faired directly into the bottom wing surface and the fin-like nosegear fairing attached to the steerable nosewheel strut? Conventional wisdom said it wouldn't work. Of course it did. Deltas need high static thrust for takeoff, when their high induced drag puts them at a disadvantage vis-à-vis conventional planes. Getting the necessary thrust with reasonable horsepower and prop diameter called for a shrouded prop turning at 4400 rpm, faster than any conventional reciprocating airplane engine's output. Fate intervened: Lycoming had two special high speed engines which had been built for a contract that didn't quite pan out; Lyc let Rohr have them cheap. These gave 150 horsepower at 4400 rpm. They had special cam profiles, but were otherwise conventional. That stroke of luck left the problem of cooling a buried aircooled engine for long periods at zero forward speed. A generously-sized dorsal scoop and an exhaust-driven ejector nozzle did the trick. In typical 108°F weather at the test site, the engine never overheated. The cooling system was in fact a bit too effective, and the inlet area would likely have been reduced or louvered if the program had continued. A short extension shaft drove a four bladed propeller. Mike Voydisch's prop, shroud and six-bladed stator gave a 1280 fpm climb with one man on board. Stator and blade profiles and pitch distributions are critical. The wing and fuselage underbody formed a "chassis" which was the major structure of the airplane; the rest (except for the duct and tail) was a fairing. Plugs for non-structural panels were carved out of body clay, Detroit style. Even the engine mount, though otherwise conventional, attached to the structural "pan" instead of the firewall bulkhead. Fatigue tests on the FRP structure showed that a structure that could resist a specified static load had an indefinite life under alternating loads. NASA spent a lot of money some years later to find out the same thing.
    A few details of wing design: the outboard leading-edge droop/extension (Walt Mooney calls it a "dog tooth") was added to correct a pitch-up tendency at high angles of attack. The airfoil section is a symmetrical french curve special laid out by Walt according to exacting scientific criteria: if it looks right, use it. There is no spar, and the structural joint between the center-section and the outboard panel is made up of two FRP piano hinges adhesive-bonded to the stressed skin of the wing. The FRP hinges were developed for the Two-175 because of questions about the reliability of adhesive bonds to metal. Torsional loads were transmitted by trunconic bosses molded into the root of the outboard panel near the leading and trailing edges; these fit neatly into recesses in the center-section. Folding the wing was a matter of removing the lower hinge pin.
    Don Westergren, the project's test pilot, noted that despite the machine's unorthodox layout it had a very normal feel. He got used to the machine quickly and felt comfortable with it, despite the fact that the wing was completely outside his field of vision, requiring the use of the instrument panel as an attitude reference. Only in landing did the Delta's special character demand special technique: approaches must be flown at constant attitude and the machine allowed to flare itself in ground effect; hauling back on the stick C-l50 style would have "buried" the tail. Don had a chance to test engine-out performance somewhat earlier than intended when a driveshaft coupling failed shortly after takeoff. Don 180'd and put the 'plane down on the runway without damage. The pivot point of the nosewheel fairing/rudder had to be moved forward early on. Otherwise the tests were uneventful and there was little down-time for modifications.
    Early in the program somebody realized that the plane was capable of floating on its sealed, foam-filled wing. Tests with scale models showed that the airplane could take-off and land on water with the help of hydro-skis. This opened up the possibility of snow landings as well. With retractable skis, the Two-l75 would certainly have had the cleanest seaplane configuration ever seen.
    So what happened? Rohr got into financial trouble with other projects and the Two was a victim of the ensuing corporate belt-tightening. Reusable equipment was salvaged from the airframes and they were destroyed, as was every speck of technical documentation. The plane lives on only in Walt's collection of color alides,




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