On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:03, Pierce Nichols wrote:
> At 06:49 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, Doug Jones wrote:
> >Alex Fraser wrote:
> >>Where is the chatter on this list about ERPS projects? Is  the ERPS 
> >>working on any projects? How are things going?
> >
> >I suspect that most of the progress goes on in face to face meetings and 
> >work parties, with reports made at the regular meetings.  We hecklers only 
> >get the side stream on the list :)
>
> I'll let anyone else who wants to 
> boast about what they've been working on pipe up :).

Actually, Pierce could also mention the continuing work on getting the
Ranch up to code. It is an uphill battle with things falling apart
almost as fast as we can fix them. A new hydrant, safety shower, and eye
wash station are now a part of the propellants building, and most of the
junk that was in the way is moved out to the boneyard. Planning and
discussion is well under way for finishing the blockhouse and adding a
building for ERPS use near the blockhouse (we will be evicted from the
current propellants building at some point in the future).

Dave W has started freezing drug-store peroxide to test his freezer
contraption and expects to move it to the ranch to test with real
peroxide any day now.

POGO is starting to move faster than the project manager can keep up
with. The parts for the tank have arrived and Dan is ready to machine
the last few bits for it, but I haven't got the detail drawings printed
out yet! At the rate POGO is moving, POGO will fly before Gizmocopter. I
hope Pierce's simulator works out well. (I should probably mention to
him that it would probably be better to just model POGO. But he'd kill
me after having gone through hell getting all the gizmo parts weighed
and the propellers torques and forces figured out. Oh well, the missing
part for getting Gizmo flying is also a necessary part for flying POGO.)

Dave

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