From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   BP wrote in message news:vtb8qp$1pkas$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   I don't think it'll be a problem to get the right key. I just wasn't   
   paying enough attention. In fact, "hobby store brass tubing" will be   
   considerably harder to find, at least around here.   
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   I'm seeing that too, all techie DIY stuff that requires manual skills is   
   disappearing.   
      
   In the 1950's PopSci and PM carried projects "for the man who can weld" or   
   owns a lathe. They faded away in the 60's.   
      
   "Boys' Life" had scalable patterns for a paper hot air balloon, which I   
   built. The "UFO" in the Exeter Incident seems to me very much like one.   
   Paper hot air balloons carrying enough fuel to first inflate them were   
   initially too heavy to rise like a Helium balloon and tended to stay low and   
   move randomly in ground turbulence. Road flares were a source of powder that   
   burned bright red as the falling fuel level exposed it, lighting up the   
   whole envelope like a Japanese lantern. Rocking back and forth and rising as   
   they lighten are typical of model hot air balloons.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_incident   
      
   Testimony from the Titanic inquiry shows how much eyewitness accounts can   
   vary from each other and what the evidence shows happened. Sci fi movie   
   effects show how easily the size of and distance to unfamiliar objects can   
   be misjudged.   
      
   The Physics professor from Phillips Exeter Academy lived nearby and build   
   toy gizmos, and my guess is some students were trying to impress him.   
      
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