Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Mentour Now!" channel.

  1. It’s all about homologation rules. Simply fitting a bigger memory would require a complete recertification. It’s ridiculous that rules can’t accommodate such an improvement but that’s how it is.
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  2.  @Mantarr1  It’s not the four missing bolts. It’s the 5th and 6th that really matter.
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  3.  @giancarlogarlaschi4388  The WW2 German analogy is true, yet Germany itself was managed so badly that the railways collapsed due to starvation of operation funds and zero maintenance.
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  4. There is always a troll telling us it’s dangerous to walk without safety boots, pit helmet and walking stick.
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  5. It’s a shame the Rolls-Royce RB211 (Trent) engine was not mentioned. It was the first production three-spool high bypass engine and first ran in 1969. High bypass RR engines went back to RB178 from 1961.
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  6. Never bet against Elon. SpaceX will deliver their suborbital system. Not tomorrow or next month but it will happen.
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  7.  @haqvor Two hoops within line of sight are not really enough to rule out operator “errors”. Three hoops absolutely cannot be rigged to support a hypothesis.
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  8.  @caribbb Flat Earth is a theology. It’s a belief system like any other religion.
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  9. Cracking Hydrogen from natural gas (the usual way it’s made) creates more carbon than existing fuels. Hydrogen from nuclear reactors is a much better idea but we don’t like nukes. Oh no nasty things.
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  10.  @lenger1234 CF wings are intended to flex. This press the loads across the structure. Wings that do not flex will fail at the most heavily loaded point. Metal fatigue.
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  11.  @martinh8784 Accounts knows the cost of everything but they know the value of nothing.
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  12. My car roof is very low. I have to get low to avoid hitting my head. Why is that any different to aircraft passenger seats beneath the overhead storage.
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  13. Spacecraft manufacturers have never been able to fix the bearing failures within inertial gyroscopes. Lasers having no moving parts should be the solution.
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  14. A well managed company is a partnership between engineering and management. The latter know what the market needs. The former often struggle with “good enough”. I’ve seen a very large telecoms company fail from that last issue. The market needed features that engineers had not considered important. Management did not “interfere” in designs and they went broke.
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  15. We can be sure this tech already exists on guided missiles. They’ve not been sent to Ukraine but for sure they exist.
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  16. SpaceX sub-orbital hops (London to New York in 30 minutes) will demolish long range conventional flights. It will take a while but it’s also clear that supersonics and dead and gone.
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  17. Use drones to preflight check the folded wings. They could even be programmed to fly a fixed check pattern while streaming video data.
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