Aerospace nut

I've been building military and non military aircraft since 1976. My eyes were never good enough to fly the military ones so I opted to build them. If you can't fly'em build'em!

I've been building composites, then designing them, and experimenting with manufacturing methodology since the early 70's, the materials have changed properties a lot but the methods have'nt changed much. I think this is still the real wave of the future with new methods, improved properties and more knowledge of how they work and perform long term. There are just too many minds working at making changes to the way composites are done and improving how they work.

I think there will be some big paradigm changes in composites and manufacturing in the next 10-15 years and they will continue to become more mainstream in everyday life.

Always trying to build a better mousetrap!

Scooter

music enriches the soul

What can I say; I grew up in a household that played classical music during the waking hours of the day. I started playing violin at 8, flute at 10 and then my world got turned upside down. In the early 60's my older sisters played "rock and roll" in their bedrooms and I was captivated.

My first "electric instrument" was a Gibson EB-0 bass and a Fender Bassman 50 amp with 2x JBL D120 speakers purchased from a pawn shop in Seattle with the help of a musician here while touring with his band (a tall skinny Brit named Jack Bruce) they had visited a family member, also a musician, he knew I liked bass and asked him to help me out. I never saw this gentleman again but he changed my life and bought me a bass (I bought the amp). This was 1968 and I was 10 years old.

When I was 16 years old I met another man who changed my life, his name was Dick Glass. He had a band called Elephant and took a shine to me. He had been in the "industry" for many years, had run security for Jimi Hendrix, had recorded about 10-12 albums was extremely charismatic and seemed to know everybody in the music business. I loved him like a brother and he treated me as an equal. Pretty heady at 16. At 17 I moved to LA, Dick was working on an album with Rick Derringer. I don't know if Elephant came apart before or after the Rick Derringer album but after that he was doing a series of solo gigs and I did sound for him. Dick's career had its ups and downs as happens to many musicians; I moved back to Seattle about 2 months before I turned 18.

I went to work for Boeing at 18 as a model maker in the Wind Tunnel. Got downsized to a tool and die maker.

Years later I started reconing speakers as a hobby. Since I'd been working as a tool and die maker I realized that this was just a bunch of machined and formed parts. Since then I've been making my own modifications to old alnico JBL's and making my own speakers from scratch with composite cones of various materials, Kevlar, carbon, ceramics and various mixes.

Happy to be from the USA

I don't take it for granted. I've been to places that are much worse than we would ever want to be. We take too lightly what we have and have too little respect for what our founding fathers have presented to us.

Scooter

Pro Audio Speaker Designer

I've been designing drivers since the mid 70's. I work on pro audio cone drivers for bottom end and mid. I do some work on horn flares but haven't done much with compression drivers.

Aerospace ME

I've been building aeromodels since I was 8. I did an apprenticeship as a wind tunnel model maker then worked as a tool and die maker. In 1986 I went into the engineering side of aircraft manufacturing at Boeing working as a ME, Tool designer and N/C programmer. My grandpa was a carpenter and my dad a machinist then electrical engineer, building and fixing stuff is in my blood. I love it!

Airplane nut from aeromodels to 747's

I build and fly aeromodels as well as working as an engineer at the largest US aircraft manufacturer.

I love 'em! I need 'em! Ah yeah!