I *love* this picture. I remember finding it when I was maybe 15 in a book about airplanes. The man had invented a helmet to help protect pilots in the event of a crash. What better way to prove how it well it works than to run full tilt into the side of a BUILDING!? LOVE the looks on the spectators face.
Some of my students finally found it again for me a year ago while working on their flight history research.
Made me stop and think. Sometimes, you might have to do something stupid to prove your point. Part of the design process, as I'm always telling my students, is EVALUATE. You can't know if something works unless you test it. Hopefully you can find a little safer way to do it though.
In other news, we are already halfway through the 2nd trimester. Sheesh, time flies. I dropped off Dan's Chariot at the powder coaters last week and they already have it ready! Need to figure out how to go pick it up, our hours don't make for easy access.
Lots of new projects to bring in the new year. Got "Dad's Fiero" to get on the road, planning a motorcycle sidecar build, hoping to finish a couple of my truck projects, do some (little more) serious gardening with the John Deere, and with some luck installing a CNC plasma cutter in the school shop. Still hoping to figure out a way to do a Masters degree. Thoughts have been percolating on that a fair bit lately- more to follow I'm sure.
Have a great 2014, y'all!
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