jimhorner

At $2.8 mil (and I'm not saying she isn't worth it) if you can afford her, you can afford to pay her feed bill. But, sadly, I just...

Flapping and fluttering? No, not really. I've got around 1220 + hours in airplanes with fabric covered control surfaces (and only about...

Oh my goodness. Wow, I really goofed there, didn't I? Huge oops!

Well, as I mention previously, my 91 year old father and 86 year old mother, both of whom I would classify as old timers, correctly...

Yea, but that equation is not the appropriate way to interpret the linear equation. It's simply wrong.

What your actually doing here is incorrectly evaluating the multiplication and division right to left instead of left to right. Your...

I don't understand. That seems like asking for validation that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Never mind that it was...

Not correct. Maybe stop thinking of these problems as fractions with denominators and think instead in terms of dividends and divisors...

I'm on your side on this one. Valid for all the stuff we do on airplanes as well. A better understanding of aircraft systems makes you...

Because mnemonics help you learn faster, and if you can learn faster and have a better way to commit it to memory, you can learn more...

When I learned this stuff starting in 7th grade in 1979 or so, there were no mnemonics at all being taught. It was more like this: The...

Agreed about the usual convention of Parentheses first. I've made that point multiple times in this thread with the last being in my...

The confusion isn't really about the order of operations, it's about the meaning of /, and it is generally accepted that the slash is...

Generally accepted rules for order of operation conventions accepted and successfully applied by generations of mathematicians...

The distributive property certainly applies, but it's important to apply it properly and with the conventions appropriately followed...