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Re: Plotting tools
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 May 30, 08:24 -0400
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 May 30, 08:24 -0400
Gary writes:
Bill wrote:
I still carry in my flight bag a set of dividers for measuring distances on sectional flight charts (scale 1:500,000) based on the same idea. The tips of the dividers are the toes of the young lady's feet and a scale reads out distances based on their separation.
gl
Bill wrote:
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Bill wrote:
My favorite French Curve is a profile of an unclad young woman. Green plastic. Based on the pose she is apparently seated on a flat surface (but no butt indent), with one leg extended and the knee of the other leg raised. Same genre as the naked woman (in chrome) on a truck mud flap. While it has limited practical use, it does make digging through a taboret drawer full of French Curves/ship's curves, circle and ellipse templates, flexible curves etc. a bit more enjoyable.
I still carry in my flight bag a set of dividers for measuring distances on sectional flight charts (scale 1:500,000) based on the same idea. The tips of the dividers are the toes of the young lady's feet and a scale reads out distances based on their separation.
gl
Bill wrote:
Don't recognize that title offhand, but wasn't he the one who invented the French Curve (hopefully that remark doesn't date me even further... ;-))? Woof!My favorite French Curve is a profile of an unclad young woman. Green plastic. Based on the pose she is apparently seated on a flat surface (but no butt indent), with one leg extended and the knee of the other leg raised. Same genre as the naked woman (in chrome) on a truck mud flap. While it has limited practical use, it does make digging through a taboret drawer full of French Curves/ship's curves, circle and ellipse templates, flexible curves etc. a bit more enjoyable. Bill B.
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