No break in on the clutch, that's the spirit! Well, you did break it in how you were going to use it pretty much. I'm not going to say I didn't relish having a fresh clutch in my car with a couple hard launches before 500 miles.

 

Sweet. Of course my discipline of engineering is different from yours (structural) so we just did a bridge design for our senior project. Only highway bridge I've ever designed in my life lol.

 

Yeah I haven't done anything in my career as cool as what I did for my senior design yet. Of course mine wasn't as cool as Alex's either.


Alex, is the plane going to account for wind when deciding to drop the payload?

 

Old? Really? That thing is practically new compared to our heap....

 

What was your project?

Yes essentially the aircraft will be flying directly into the wind and with the air speed sensor put that into the calculation of when to drop.
Of course it won't be perfect, but I think we have all of the variables included.

We'll know more once the plane is built and we begin testing stuff with the sensors mounted on it.


Building a bridge sounds cool! I did a toothpick bridge competition thing for scouts a ways back.

 

We didn't actually build it, we just did all the engineering, drawings, and specs for it.

Come to find out a few years after graduation that one of our professors was affiliated with the engineering firm that did the final "real" design for the replacement of the bridge we chose (it was a 1908 steel truss bridge on a rural back road that was due for demolition/replacement). We did such a thorough job that they actually utilized significant portions of our project as a part of the final roadway realignment and bridge design.

 

So many different careers and schooling on here. Just think if we all got together at a shop what we could come up with.

 

Cabin? Hmmm, now ya got me thinking. Pulling my trailer to Texas twice this year is enough for me.

Nice one brodad!! I am stoked for you! Hopefully I'll get to see it in person!

 

We could come up with one hell of a monstrosity. Not sure how good or bad that really is, but it would be guaranteed to be as cool as anything out there though.

 

Nate, now you are gonna need some power mods to help pull the bigger camper! Yeah they have cabins there. Better reserve one befor there all gone. And i would say we could come up with something with a obs psd in it haha. As far as drones go, my work bought one to survey stock piles of coal, the pits, reclaim land and other ground. It has a camara on it and the images can be printed out in like a map form.

 

I thought you were putting a dual disk organic in the SD?


Nice camper Nate! It does look to be in really good shape!

Well, Nate isn't the only one who got a new/used camper. I bought a 1990 32' 5th wheel. Going to pick it up Friday about 2 1/2 hours away. It is in pretty good shape for it's age. It has a brand new $1200 refrigerator in it and brand new tires on it. It needs a good cleaning but it's a solid old camper. It doesn't have a slide out, but it is a front living room model where the living room is up over the 5th wheel part. It makes a lot more room inside that way when there is no slide. The best part of it is I got it for $2300!! I couldn't pass it up for that price and as good of condition that it's in. I'll get some pics of it posted sometime this weekend after I get it home.

 

Good deal Bill!

 

Thanks buddy!

 

I forgot to mention this but I always thought the living room up top was a 'new' thing. For a 24 yr old camper, it was ahead of its time!

 

Kinda like us huh? LOL!