This is one book I’ll cherish with the best of them. It was the direction vector for the design thinking I had evolved a few years ago, when doing general design calculations, sizing and performance calculations for general aviation concepts.
A very personal dream I have had is to make an airplane of my own, designed from scratch and built to seat only me. It was the sort of dream any self-righteous 11 year old would encourage, and I was more than happy to carry on this dream several years into my adult life. The surfeit of involvements and life events in general get one sidetracked about one’s projects and old ideas, and sometimes, it pays to revive them, just to experience what it should be to examine lofty dreams again. And many times, such examination leads to veritable gains, sometimes with a new direction that arises from a critical self-examination. As a journalist friend of mine put it wittily (on the occasion of my college gang and I sharing pictures of sundry quizzes we took part in and conducted then), “…as if we aren’t embarrassed enough about our pasts!”
When I think of what kind of project this would be, in terms of the scale, complexity or the cost of it, I can comfortably say that I have neither the time, nor the money to execute it, regardless of whether I have the will or the talent. However, that doesn’t mean that the problem is not worth examining, especially if I have a beloved text book right by me, to help me out.
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May 23, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Интересно, я даже и недумала об этом…