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Title: No Jet Engines
Post by: earl1937 on April 22, 2015, 03:14:53 AM
 :airplane: Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the days of no jet engines and no nukes? Then if you got into a fight with another country, you would have to do it face to face, so to speak and you would have to use "dumb" bombs to bomb anything!
With todays attitudes there would be jobs for everyone, building military equipment to defend them selves, gas would still be 30 cents a gallon and women wouldn't be wearing "pantie" hose!
Would we then have global warming? Are so many jet engines in  the skies now really disrupting the normal atmosphere temps? I read a pc recently by a British author who thinks that! LOL
You could still find a "gopher" job at the local airport to wash and clean aircraft for flying time! there would be no "pot" around, just rabbit tobacco and stealing "Prince Albert" from grandpa's stash and trying to roll a cig from the Sunday newspapers!
You could hitch hike anywhere in the U.S. and had no trouble getting a ride! You could ride a bus from Chatt to Atlanta for $1.65.
Those days are gone forever my friends, but I wouldn't trade those times for anything, except maybe the Lord giving me back my beloved wife!
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: Nypsy on April 22, 2015, 07:30:53 AM
Earl, everything is relative.
That $1.65 bus ride would seem expensive if you are making .50 cents an hour.
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: eagl on April 22, 2015, 09:35:35 AM
Lots of horrors visited on mankind before nukes.  Before nukes, global warfare was still considered "reasonable" by many people, leading to millions of deaths.  Now...  not so much.

So no, I don't want a return to pre-nuke times.  Plus jet engines means I can order custom slippers from China on ebay and they'll be delivered in 3 days. 
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: PR3D4TOR on April 22, 2015, 09:51:34 AM
Age of sail, now THAT was something...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/AH/Sea-battle.jpg)

Getting scurvy and have all my teeth fall out would suck though.
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: eagl on April 22, 2015, 08:38:48 PM
My fave era would have to be the 50's and 60's.  Amazing things happening, sky's the limit, and the liability/entitlement culture hadn't set in yet.  We could still have a few astronauts or pilots die each year pushing forward the boundaries of the possible, and it was tragic but certainly not something that would actually STOP us or get litigated to death.  People who were willing to take great risks could do great things.  We've lost that here in the US.

Per the '50s and '60s attitudes, spacex would have already sent a dozen or more astronauts up in their dragon capsule, which has yet to suffer a catastrophic loss of the capsule but which still isn't "certified" for human flight.  50-60 years ago, we'd be like "with all that money being spent you STILL haven't sent up a human in that thing?"  We built the Apollo program step by step, the SR-71, X-15, computer chips and a TON of new medical technology, Teflon, etc etc.  Then we got so risk adverse that our idea of a really risky idea is starting uber taxi service in a city with unionized cab drivers, or coming up with a new service that uses the internet which was invented decades ago.  Or putting a camera on a pair of glasses.  Meh.

Give me the optimism and energy of the '50s and '60s please.  I'd fly anything scaled composites builds, and ride along in anything spacex lofts into orbit.  I'd do that tomorrow or as soon as the ink dried on the liability waiver.  I'd do it for free.  A whole lot of my heroes died in the first half of the last century doing great things, things that the nanny state simply doesn't let us do anymore even though it would be my neck I'm risking, not theirs.
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: earl1937 on April 23, 2015, 04:24:13 AM
My fave era would have to be the 50's and 60's.  Amazing things happening, sky's the limit, and the liability/entitlement culture hadn't set in yet.  We could still have a few astronauts or pilots die each year pushing forward the boundaries of the possible, and it was tragic but certainly not something that would actually STOP us or get litigated to death.  People who were willing to take great risks could do great things.  We've lost that here in the US.

Per the '50s and '60s attitudes, spacex would have already sent a dozen or more astronauts up in their dragon capsule, which has yet to suffer a catastrophic loss of the capsule but which still isn't "certified" for human flight.  50-60 years ago, we'd be like "with all that money being spent you STILL haven't sent up a human in that thing?"  We built the Apollo program step by step, the SR-71, X-15, computer chips and a TON of new medical technology, Teflon, etc etc.  Then we got so risk adverse that our idea of a really risky idea is starting uber taxi service in a city with unionized cab drivers, or coming up with a new service that uses the internet which was invented decades ago.  Or putting a camera on a pair of glasses.  Meh.

Give me the optimism and energy of the '50s and '60s please.  I'd fly anything scaled composites builds, and ride along in anything spacex lofts into orbit.  I'd do that tomorrow or as soon as the ink dried on the liability waiver.  I'd do it for free.  A whole lot of my heroes died in the first half of the last century doing great things, things that the nanny state simply doesn't let us do anymore even though it would be my neck I'm risking, not theirs.
:airplane: In my view, the 50's and 60's were the true "golden age" of aviation! Your post is right on sir!
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: Someguy63 on April 23, 2015, 08:42:56 AM
Age of sail, now THAT was something...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/AH/Sea-battle.jpg)

Getting scurvy and have all my teeth fall out would suck though.

They found a cure for that in the 1750's. Didn't become widespread till the 1790's.
Title: Re: No Jet Engines
Post by: Toad on April 23, 2015, 09:15:53 AM
Oh Eagl!  Your post is so FULL of MICROAGRESSIONS!  I need a safe space!



LOL.


What we were….what we are now. Sad to contemplate.

Good post, Eagl…right on the money.