One moment.

[Yannis]

My son and myself, earlier today, lighting up his 16th B-day cake. Time flies...
In the background, in the blue bucket, the disinfected boat utensils retrieved from the garage to move into the boat's drawers. Summer is approaching!

[mike ohlstein]

That fancy propeller looks like it came from a different kind of boat......

[Yannis]

Ha, indeed.

I bought it on the internet a few (6?) years ago and is supposed to be a reconditioned airplane prop (re-polished and stuff).
I had thought to attach it to a fan rotor on the ceiling for the summer, but it's too heavy for that business, my plan failed, so it became a living room ornament !
If I told you the dimensions, would you be able to tell me what plane it's from? A flying Bertram perhaps ?!

[Navatech]

I bought it on the internet a few (6?) years ago and is supposed to be a reconditioned airplane prop (re-polished and stuff).
I had thought to attach it to a fan rotor on the ceiling for the summer, but it's too heavy for that business, my plan failed, so it became a living room ornament !
If I told you the dimensions, would you be able to tell me what plane it's from? A flying Bertram perhaps ?!

That's a cool mancave item!... I don't think that just the dimensions would help identify the plane... If there's a manufacturer and serial number (there should be unless it's really VERY VERY old or a replica) you could find out that way... Bertrams can go only so fast... Regardless of how much HP you put in them... I don't think the top speed allows take-off...

BTW, you said you've never been married but you have son?!... Somebody's been naughty!... ;-))

Enjoy while you can... It seems that only a couple of years ago I was changing his diapers and now my eldest is in the Israeli navy (like me and my father and also like my brother, a cousin and a nice)... He's an instructor (basic seamanship stuff) with our version of Annapolis (the US Naval Academy)...

This is a picture of my son at his graduation (2nd generation at that school, me and my younger brother preceded him):



You'll notice that our military don't do those funny uniforms the Greek do ;-))

[Yannis]

I served in the air force so I'm not very familiar with the navy's uniforms; I think that the typical Greek navy outfit, dark blue in the winter or just plain white in the summer with the black canvass belt, the round - skillet shaped - hat and the collar strings, all derive from the british uniform. BTW, the funniest of all uniforms is the french one, with the red pon-pon on the hat !

I haven't got married because I didn't feel I needed a "stamp" to prove the obvious. Also, I'm allergic to gods and religions of any sort.