[AT] Check your grounds, OT news, and Portland

David A. Laughead Jr. daljr at bright.net
Wed Jul 20 17:11:09 PDT 2005


Sounds like NASA needed to take Farmer's age old advice.

I just watched a NASA press conference. They beleive a weak ground caused
the faulty reading of the sensor that caused the scrub of last weeks launch.

They are hoping for a launch on July 26th. They have extended the launch
window to Aug 1st with the possiblity to Aug 4th.

NASA TV is great!.

Other news...

Bad Day on the lake here. Took ye ole boat to Lake St Mary's, after about 15
minutes We had a catastrophic failure. What I beleive happened, a crack in
the lower unit formed then through vibration split a peice of trhe aluminum
casting off creating more vibration which cause a bolt to snap under
increased stressed which in turn caused another bolt to snap. When I pulled
the boat out of the water the prop wasn't inline with the motor anymore. Big
Thanks to the nice man who pulled us back to the launch ramp.

Found another LU on ebay that I think will work so in the end everything is
OK.

Portland...

Due to a recent shift change for the worse at work, I  may have opened up
some extra time for me at Portland so I may now be able to bring the camper
up and stay a few nights.
The bad news is that the Allis CA is still in a million pieces. Maybe next
year.

Hope to see ya'll at Portland,
Dave Laughead



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