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After spending mots of the week in Muncie talking to various friends, I found that we are a very diversified group. So, what do you do to support your hobby??
I am a R&D mechanical engineer for GE Medical Systems. I get to work on MR and x-ray systems….Big magnets and shooting x-rays….
I defend product manufacturers in lawsuits. I haven’t run across any of John’s work, so he must be doing a good job. 😀
High School Teacher and Football & Softball coach. Just finished one week of “Triples”. I’m as tired as the players…Well, maybe not 8)
DDockHello John
Interesting that you work for GE Medical Systems.
I am also a Mechanical Engineer and design products on CAD systems like SolidWorks and AutoCAD.
Started a business in the late 1970s building 3 wheel cars, 100 mpg. Built 700 of them.
My daughter wrote the software for GE Medical Systems to make the machines work with fidgity subjects. She worked for GE for 5 years before switching over to the Mayo Clinic.
Now I sell model supplies as a part time venture, non-money making, but fun, while still working full time.
I am a mechanical designer working at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tn. We design mechanical components for various nuclear research projects using ProEngineer 3D solid modeling software.
After 25 years as a manufacturer of pre-engineered wood roof and floor trusses for residential and commercial buildings, I switched careers.
I am now a Redneck (Always Capitalize) Flight Instructor. After 5 years strapping on trainers and inviting people to kill me, I now have a real job with a real company.
I instruct on Piper Navajos for Flight Safety International at the Lakeland Learning Center. I am also become qualified on Piper Meridian/Mirage and the JetProp dlx turboprop conversion.
well, let’s see…
First, I don’t want to every see Bill professionally…..I also don’t want to spend three a days with Denny (went thru that a way long time ago and it was only two a days…That’s how I got my fake knee….)…….I could use some cabinet work…..Can’t say I have much use right now at Oak Ridge…. I also am a flight (fright) instructor, so I know what Dean has gone thru- Just finished getting my son his Private and that was interesting….And I also use ACAD and SolidEdge for most of my stuff….It also does great with designing airplanes….
I think it really is interesting that we have so many skilled folks in the hobby. I don’t think you find this in other hobbies. It seems that it is just the nature of the beast!!!
Bill, we may see ya this weekend and then I will get those beers!!!
I’m a Sea King helo pilot for the Canadian Air Force. Piece of cake compared to trimming a glider and learning how to circle tow!
I retired at 44, made kites but no money for 10 years, redicovered free flight modeling and started a mail order business which does not make money but is a lot of fun. My real job is a full time carer for my father (Alzhiemers) for which the government pays me an allowance and I can model 8 days a week 😀
Ployd
Hmm, lets see. Part time aerodynamicist, structural engineer, cabinet maker, composite manufacturer, machinest, electronics engineer, programmer, designer and draughtman. Guess if I bought models instead of building them myself I wouldn’t need most of these skills ! Rest of my time is spent running stuctural analysis simulations on everything from satellites and aircraft to timing belts and subsea cables.
I am a doctor in Worcestershire in England. I will probably be retiring next year. I got back into flying when my son got interested 2 years ago. I am busy trying to succeed with models that I didn’t have as much success with when I was a teenager. My son now lives in N.Z. and has lots of land .The wife and I are planning no more winters from next year. I am into radio assist free flight locally on a friends field and proper free flight when I am in Oxford at the week-ends, and occasionally mid week, as there is a large area of common land there. I am trimming an F1B model recently bought from glidetek at the moment.
I’m a Design Engineer for Ricardo in the US, my main line specialty is valve train design, but I am involved in all areas of engine design.
Randy
I just retired, but I was a Project Manager on Hazardous Waste Clean-up sites. Most of my career was spent on Ground water, and soil remediation, and water treatment of storm water from these sites.
I’m a newspaper editor. I get a lot of help from my more experienced partner, who is manages our newspaper print shop.
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