Very interesting stuff. Homer would probably have a little smile on his face if he was still with us.
A shaft stress measuring device coupled with a grip pressure point sensor would make for an interesting diagnostic tool ......... in the right instructors hands.
Ive been thinking about radial acceleration in my swinging pattern. I think I used to overload my pp3 radially going back which sent me under plane. I tended to adopt a punch elbow going back and now think it was a subconscious blocking action. Now when I just load my pp3 (in the first knuckle!) at top and arrow from quiver my start down Im good. No hooks, pitch elbow is back, more lag etc. Eureka.
Nowhere else did I find these concepts but right here at LBG. Hope Im getting em right. Even if Im not Im still further ahead.
Very interesting stuff. Homer would probably have a little smile on his face if he was still with us.
A shaft stress measuring device . . . would make for an interesting diagnostic tool ......... in the right instructors hands.
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Homer was a true genius.
An appropriate "stress measuring device" already exists. How the clubshaft manufacturers use it -- or even if they use it -- I do not know.
I do know that Homer Kelley used it to build airplanes and to measure the stresses his finished product would have to endure in 'real time'. Did he know what he was doing? Toward the end of his career, only one signature (of tens of thousands of employees) could release a Boeing aircraft as technically fit for sale. That signature was his.
An appropriate "stress measuring device" already exists. How the clubshaft manufacturers use it -- or even if they use it -- I do not know.
I do know that Homer Kelley used it to build airplanes and to measure the stresses his finished product would have to endure in 'real time'. Did he know what he was doing? Toward the end of his career, only one signature (of tens of thousands of employees) could release a Boeing aircraft as technically fit for sale. That signature was his.
Yoda....I work for Boeing...are you sure you're correct about that comment..."Only one signature could release a Boeing aircraft as technically fit for sale"....what aircraft??? A commerical aircraft??? a military aircraft???
What area did Homer work in for Boeing???
DG
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Yoda....I work for Boeing...are you sure you're correct about that comment..."Only one signature could release a Boeing aircraft as technically fit for sale"....what aircraft??? A commerical aircraft??? a military aircraft???
What area did Homer work in for Boeing???
DG
I know only what Homer Kelley told me in recorded conversation. And he stated that fact humbly -- no braggadocio -- in the context of a story involving functional testing and his assigned duties.
The aircraft was the B-47.
Moreover, Homer didn't work in an 'area'. His bosses had tried that years before, and from the shop foremen to the engineers, it didn't work. What was most important to him was to be proven right, and, early on, that mindset did not win many friends in the ranks. But he had the unusual talent of being able to solve "rather intricate problems", and ultimately -- under the time and production stresses of war -- people 'got it' and left him alone to pursue his work. He went where he was needed.
In his last years, he had no title.
Nor did he want one.
He was a maverick.
In more modern times, talents such as his have been institutionalized as 'skunkworks' by large companies drowning in bureauracy but still desperately seeking innovation. As an example, see Lockheed in the Viet Nam days when the C-130 was the big dog. Things couldn't get done fast enough within the corporate flowchart, so major changes had to happen apart from it.
Bottom line: Homer Kelley was outside the norm . . .
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