tom wrote:
On 12/8/2010 9:47 PM, Art Unwin wrote:
On Dec 8, 8:18 pm, wrote:
On Dec 8, 4:21 pm, Sean wrote:



Art, can you please contact me to my email address directly, because i
feel people dont like us discussing something.

Actually, quite the opposite. I think he's a hoot, and look
forward to his posts. It's better than the comedy channel.
Feel free to carry on.

Sean, the poster is qualified to speak into a microphone as he has a
ham licence. However he freely admits to not graduating from high
school, so please judge his comments on his background. He is not the
only one in this group that has ham licence and feels qualified
in physics to a University level.

There was a man who did not graduate high school that many considered a
fool and a kook. And to prove it, well maybe to prove it, he named his
daughter Shanda. That's a bit odd maybe, but his last name was Lear.
So he made a joke. Whether poor or not I won't judge. Obviously
different than the pack, though.

So this non-high-school-graduate that had probably never even taken
physics or chemistry decided to be an engineer. He read a lot, thought
a lot, worked a lot, and designed something others said was not feasible
- a small, inexpensive and reliable jet aircraft. The Lear Jet.

Bill Lear attended school until the eighth grade when he dropped out
and joined the Navy as a WWI radio operator. That is the extent of his
formal education.

Besides the jet, he invented the first practical car radio, the patents to
which he sold to what became Motorola.

He developed radio direction finders, autopilots, automatic landing systems,
and avionics for general aviation aircraft.

He came up with the 8-track stereo originally to provide music systems for
his business jets.

The Canadair CL-600 Challenger bussiness jet is a Bill Lear design.

The Hannibal Regional Airport, William P. Lear Field was named in his honor.

Not bad for a high school drop out from Missouri.


Putting people down because of their lack of a high school degree when
they are obviously intelligent as well as quite thoroughly self educated
brands YOU as unintelligent, not them.

tom
K0TAR

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Jim Pennino

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