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Odabo
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Location: Florida USA

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He saw me coming, I could'nt catch him.

I can't find no Sapogi Skorochody no where: not UFa, not Trjohgornyj, and not Tomsk, so I'll catch this thing ...

To here ...

Untill EkoMotor makes it's once every three years press release, late 2006. Oops, here it is.
http://www.ushkalenko.ru/gorod/gorod_13_2.html

Blah! http://eng.poweriser.co.kr/company/preface.html time!


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Odabo
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NECRO DECO

http://www.erbzine.com/dan/h1.html
http://www.memphismagazine.com/backissues/april2001/coverstory2.htm
... RICHARD HALLIBURTON was a man of great adventure. In this book SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS, ... Annihilating distance with his Seven League Boots, Halliburton strode to Yekaterinburg, in Siberia. Here he found one of the chief assassins who had carried out the massacre of Czar Nicholas the second and all six members of his family. Under extraordinary circumstances the assassin, half dead from a throat malady, revealed to the Author the complete and final truth about this world-famous tragedy. Not one smallest of details was withheld. The reckless confession of the dying Bolshevik,...

http://www.joefrank.com/deathtrotsky.html
Individual Show CDs -- The Death of Trotsky -- 1979 NPR Playhouse
Cast: Joe Frank -- Music: Miles Davis, "Solea", from Sketches of Spain
Assassin Jackson Mornard arrives in a sleepy town outside of Mexico City. His intention is to kill the Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, while he works on Stalin's biography and corresponds with a Korean schoolchild. Mornard recalls visiting a grave outside of Barcelona in the rain and takes up with Sylvia, Trotsky's secretary, thereby infiltrating the inner circle. We learn of Kierkegaard's conundrum and the problem of revisionist history. Everything leads to the murder of Trotsky.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1025879,00.html
Death of Trotsky · Attacked by "Guest" · Skull fractured with pickaxe · A famous Bolshevik
Thursday August 22, 1940 The Guardian
Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik leader, died early this morning from injuries received when he was attacked in his home in a suburb of Mexico City some thirty hours earlier. His skull was fractured. ... CONTINUES AT WEB PAGE.

http://www.bodiesrevealed.com/index-home.html
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
http://www.mosi.org/
http://www.rmstitanic.net/
http://www.dlmedu.edu.cn/english/
http://www.dlmedu.edu.cn/english/international.htm
On April 8th, 1993, Dlmedu signed an agreement with the Anatomy Institute of Heidelberg University of Germany, to set up the Plastination Research Center. Now Heidelberg University has invested near one million yuan and supported the instruments worth 100,000 yuan. The Plastination Research Center not only first develops the plastinative technology in China, but also becomes the biggest plastination center in Asia.
http://www.dlmedu.edu.cn/english/science.htm
18.Institute of Bio-plastination Products: Engaged in the study of replication of anatomical samples by high-polymeric techniques. Director: Sui Hong-jin.

A couple of interesting search engines butted into google search:
http://news.surfwax.com/biology/files/Plastination.html
http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/amusement_and_family_entertainment/premier_exhibitions,_inc/

http://press.namct.com/content/view/2413/9/
http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20050726/26jul20051024.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081701818.html

As of August 19, 2005 Via Miami cathode ray
The Tampa MOSI exhibition is opened, authorities at this time are not going to litigate.

All the above body hits were developed from a just recently opened body exhibit in Tampa, it's strongest controversy is that the bodies are of unidentified Chinese. The exhibitions of the following URL have no relationship to the Company that formed the Tampa exhibition. It's also my idea of a supurbly done web page, loads quick, contains actual information, and a lot of it, it is pretty too.
http://www.koerperwelten.de/en/pages/home.asp
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Odabo
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something else I must buy after I win a big state lottery. A Su31, but differnt colors than pink over white.

I remember the early Su26 models as having a one piece U shape as the landing gear, it was one big piece of titanium.
The little triangles on stalks jutting forward on the bottom of the airelons are called spades. The early Su26 s I saw had about 3 or 4 on each airelon. They reduce the amount of effort by the pilot to move the aerilons. Spades were pretty much unknown, untill Curtiss Pitts put them on a new plane he had built, as a patch for poor handling. It drove him a little crazy when other people started tacking them onto thier planes. He had a strong opinion that if the plane was designed correctly, spades were not needed. The wire triangle trailing the left wing tip is a horizon guide. In competion maneuvers there are verticle, horizontal, and 45 degree lines. In IAC rules 1 point off for each 5 degrees off, can be scored 1/2 point off for 2-1/2 degrees off.
Just barely visible is a bit of string trailing from the horizon guide, it indicates relative wind and so I presume indicates to the pilot how close he is to stalling. Long ago sometimes bits of thin tape on the inside of the canopy were used as horizon guides.
The thick bar jutting forward out of the left wing is probably the Pitot tube used for the air speed indicator. I don't know what the little forward bits on the landing gear are, maybe steps? For sure the u shape below the cockpit is a step to get inside. The Sukhoi has a radial engine, most aerobatic aircraft have a flat 6 engine. The Russians also use something that looks like a camera lens iris just behind the propeller to control cooling air flow around the motor. American planes usualy have a flap on the fuselage below the engine that can be closed to control cooling air flow. Once upon a time a nearby business named Pompano Air Center had an exclusive contract for world wide sales of Sukhoi Aerobatic planes. A champion pilot named Rick Massegee (could be spelled wrong ) took delivery on a new plane, and during a early practice flight in Imokolee Florida pulled up for a 6g loop, well within his and the planes design ability. One wing folded up and he died. Pompano Air no longer exists, I presume the business was sued into oblivion. The cause of the failure in the NTSB records is revealed to be a incorrect connection of vacuum lines, to a bag used to press form the composite wing, from the plant having been closed down and then reopened, probably with some personel changes. Curtiss Pitts died just a couple of months ago from natural causes, he was about 80. He lived in Homestead Florida, also not a long drive from where I live. I went to his shop on just one occasion. He was just finishing a new Biplane using the same Russian motor as the Sukhois, it later became known as the Super Stinker. The name has nothing to do with the quality of the planes performance. Decades earlier Pilot Betty Skelton had done pretty well flying a Pitts Special named Little Stinker, that had a cartoon skunk painted on the cowl.

See also:
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=371
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vettra
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Odabo wrote:
http://mamayevhill.volgadmin.ru/
The tour info mentions 102 meters , so close enough.
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does anyone feel disgust from that statue? violence is solved by violence. That is the moral of the Russian story. Perhaps it's the American upbringing: hope, forgiveness, love / maybe it's a fantasy, but that sure appeals 1000x more than staring a giant killer bitch with a sword.
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Odabo
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vettra wrote:
does anyone feel disgust from that statue? violence is solved by violence. That is the moral of the Russian story. Perhaps it's the American upbringing: hope, forgiveness, love / maybe it's a fantasy, but that sure appeals 1000x more than staring a giant killer bitch with a sword.


The evil lying manipulators at CBS and NBC have my eternal gratitude for what they have done to vettra's brain.

Vettra, your lunch money please.
Thankyou vettra.
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vettra
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Odabo wrote:
eternal gratitude for what they have done to vettra's brain. Thankyou

Пожалуста. I watch 60 minutes every chance possible. Score 1 for me - yet another self-proclaimed enemy.
Я питалься читать твой текст, но на сколько вроде у тебя фокус нет, мне кажеться что ты може немношко сумашетший. можить быть что они контролирують мне - но мой можги не зделано от железа.
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Odabo
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vettra wrote:
Odabo wrote:
eternal gratitude for what they have done to vettra's brain. Thankyou

Пожалуста. I watch 60 minutes every chance possible. Score 1 for me - yet another self-proclaimed enemy.
Я питалься читать твой текст, но на сколько вроде у тебя фокус нет, мне кажеться что ты може немношко сумашетший. можить быть что они контролирують мне - но мой можги не зделано от железа.


Eloquent, ain't he, a big fan of liar Dan Rather and scored too.
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vettra
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Odabo, man wow. your patriotism is something amazing.
I'm assuming you're Russian, wow. просто твой енергия замичательно.
И на сколько владееш Англиским - ГЕРОЙ. power to you mon.
Florida??? ---I LOVE IT. Miami looks like the center of my universe -
strangely enough, for Europe (Russia, Kazakstan, etc) too. CHEAP travel
from there. +.. I *love* Florida. A wonderful place for my future [theoretical, sigh] bride and the multitude of kids.
Your posts are something awesome, keep it up.
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Odabo
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vettra wrote:

I *love* Florida. A wonderful place for my future [theoretical, sigh] bride and the multitude of kids.
Your posts are something awesome, keep it up.


Thanks. Be sure to show your posts to prospect mates, feign pride.
I want you to wind up with someone you deserve. Have as many kids as you can early, then abandon them before the oldest turns twelve. I think they will be more likely to do you harm to gain inheritance than to hunt you down for emotional satisfaction.
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