Topic: The "Must Post" Thread

[@re]

I'm enjoying the autopuzzles, and most are really tough.  I have a lot of car books, and even then, few clues to look things up.

The thing that really keeps baffling me is how a puzzle that seems like a piece of cake to me, is just unsolvable to others. Like my puzzle #7, which was one of the first I posted, and still sits unsolved in the Pro section. Now, most puzzles I put up here now (in the Expert and Pro sections, anyway) are cars I hadn't heard about before I actively started searching for difficult puzzles, but that one was one that had been left on my harddisk for several years - and now there hardly seems to be any information about it at all, even though it comes from a relatively well-known manufacturer. And then, I post some obscure car that I had never heard of - and within minutes, three people fight to give me the answer...

So, as I said months ago in connection with one of my puzzles that I thought was difficult, but proved to be ridiculously easy: I guess it all comes down to which books you've read and which web pages you've visited...

[Ultra]

They almost all baffle me.

 

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm certainly not the expert I once fancied myself. With a fair bit of Googling, I could solve most of them, back in the day. Now that there are so many sharp-eyed members with Googling skills and automotive libraries, coupled with the restrictions I hatched for "Pro" level puzzling, my solves are now rare, indeed.

[Ultra]

I'm certainly not the expert I once fancied myself. With a fair bit of Googling, I could solve most of them, back in the day. Now that there are so many sharp-eyed members with Googling skills and automotive libraries, coupled with the restrictions I hatched for "Pro" level puzzling, my solves are now rare, indeed.

Nothing if not modest.

 

[@re]

I'm certainly not the expert I once fancied myself. With a fair bit of Googling, I could solve most of them, back in the day. Now that there are so many sharp-eyed members with Googling skills and automotive libraries, coupled with the restrictions I hatched for "Pro" level puzzling, my solves are now rare, indeed.

For us 'newcomers', you will always be one of the Original Masters

[Otto Puzzell]

Awww, shucks - you guys flatter me.

[@re]

You're welcome!

[Ultra]

This place exists because I was inspired with an idea by witnessing Otto's skills.

The Original Master is the perfect descriptor.

[Allemano]

@ @re: I wanted to send you a PM, but obviousely your InBox is full!

[porridgehead]

Do you know your aircraft as well as your automobiles?

I'm in the Italian Air Force.

[Ultra]

PlanePuzzles?  Anyone?

 

[Otto Puzzell]

We've had them before - quite fun:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=645.0

[Paul Jaray]

Do you know your aircraft as well as your automobiles?

I know it`s strange but I don`t...I meet a lot of people asking me about that version of the new F-16 or if the Eurofighter has got that device or if that plane is a Boeing 737 or 727... I`m not interested in planes even If I really do like my job. I know the performances of the planes I work with because I need for my job...I can not put a C-130 before a Boeing 727 in a sequence, otherwise the 727 will have to slow down too much, I won`t ask an AB212 to report on final with the landing gear down and locked...but that`s it. I use to take a lot of pics of every aircraft because I like them, but I do not know them.

[Ultra]

I haven't been on a plane since 9-11 and I am not looking to get on one again anytime soon.

[Paul Jaray]

I try to make a flight every time I can.... overflying the Tuscany on a PA28 is really a great experience...(in my base we do also have a civilian flight school...) but commercial flights ain`t the same, I agree.

[Ultra]

I try to make a flight every time I can.... overflying the Tuscany on a PA28 is really a great experience...(in my base we do also have a civilian flight school...) but commercial flights ain`t the same, I agree.

I would love to be flying private aircraft.   I don't think I have the desire to deal with the imbeciles from Homeland Insecurity.

[Paul Jaray]

I see, let`s hope not to hurt anyone from the H.S. comunity!

[Ultra]

I see, let`s hope not to hurt anyone from the H.S. comunity!

Non-violence is the credo of my belief system.

[Paul Jaray]

Or you are just afraid of a deep control next time you take a plane?

[DHoffmann]

I must be one of the only people that I know that enjoys public flights. I usually arrive at airports about 2 hours before the reccomended time of 45 minutes before a flight because I just enjoy being there, and the longer the flight the better....

[Paul Jaray]

I like travelling on commercial flights too, It`s always a thrill when you lift ftom the ground, but ...the longer the better... I don`t think. I made a 20-hours flight with a C-130 and I arrived like this:

[Ultra]

Or you are just afraid of a deep control next time you take a plane?

 

[DHoffmann]

I like travelling on commercial flights too, It`s always a thrill when you lift ftom the ground, but ...the longer the better... I don`t think. I made a 20-hours flight with a C-130 and I arrived like this:

Well I think that the method of travel is slightly different there. I've flown 14 hours straight in business class and loved every minute of it. The old economy isn't that good, I'm too tall to fit comfortably in the seats, but the newer economies suit me just fine as well.

[Bezor]

This last time I flew to Korea, 18 hours, I did not take the U.S. carrier United.  Instead, I took Singapore Air and was greeted with a new plane, new telematics/entertainment, frankly decent food and service that was beyond what I had ever received on an American airliner.  Politeness, breeds politeness and relaxation.  I hate flying, but this isn't the usual anxiety filled reason.  No, I hate being treated like a product.  I love to fly smaller commuter planes with out all the safety layers.  I love to fly private, and after my wonderful flight with Singapore, will not take an American carrier for that flight in the future.

Now what I'd really enjoy, is to be shot off the bow of the Carrier USS. Abe Lincoln in a prowler.

http://ftp.fas.org/irp/program/collect/ea-6b_prowler.htm

[Ultra]

Now what I'd really enjoy, is to be shot off the bow of the Carrier USS. Abe Lincoln in a prowler.

http://ftp.fas.org/irp/program/collect/ea-6b_prowler.htm

I'd be up for that!