NerdNite[37]: What goes up must come down!
Happy Nerd Year!
This month Nerd Nite is bringing you two fabulous talks on John Cusack’s dramatic decline to artistic mediocrity and the wild world of homebuilt airplanes. Be there and be square!
Nerd Nite Seattle
LUCID
Monday, January 19
7:30 (Doors open at 6:30)
Admission: $5
An experimental homebuilt aircraft with no wings
Robert Ingle
What will you do when YOU retire? How about something wacky like building a homebuilt airplane? There are lots of homebuilt designs that are conventional, with wings in the middle and control surfaces in the back. There are some that are backward, with control surfaces in the front, wings in the rear. And then there is the FMX4, with no true wings, longer than it is wide.
Why would anybody build such a plane? Why would anybody try to build it with 0.001” accuracy in every dimension? How would you build it with 0.001” accuracy in every dimension? Come to Nerd Nite and learn more than you want to know about the FMX4, CNC machining and the Experimental Aircraft Association.
Me: Mild mannered, retired physician, board certified in Aerospace Medicine, (otherwise known as 1001 ways the aerospace environment can be harmful to your health).
The decline and fall of John Cusack: a case study in quantifying artistic mediocrity
Tola Marts
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