Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Mentour Now!"
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It is a shame that airlines and even other employers have no way in which to track the age of their employees and potentially predict the utterly unpredictable, completely random age in which employees may retire.
Maybe we should ask governments to suggest a retirement age, which could make predicting such things possible.
Oh wait, that would require management to jump off of the just in time bandwagon and anticipate predictable things, prepare in advance for them and retain a certain level of excess personnel to act as a buffer should there be a sudden loss and that is definitely not lean six sigma!
Decades of promoting just in time ordering and lean philosophy has gone as we predicted, disruptions in supply chains and traffic flow have disrupted everything up and downstream and retirements are adding to the hot mess.
Again, as predicted when we took that training that is only ever effective in an undisturbed steady state environment. But, people that were in the field for 20 - 30+ years didn't know what they were talking about and needed to have a positive attitude.
I was quite positive it'd blow up in their faces.
So, we're short flight crews, infant formula due to one plant going offline out of a dozen and a tampon shortage, that due to hand wave cotton and plastic shortages...
And the ones that need to be shown the door for such business harming shortsightedness will retain their platinum parachutes, while everyone else gets lead parachutes.
</0.01% spleen venting completed, detonation averted>
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Well, the upside is that there are several options besides US or Russian birds for position information.
Still, an out of band method, like VOR is always a good idea, just in case orbital conditions are insanely too noisy, such as from solar activity.
The propeller hat community goes nuts over EMP, never realizing or accepting that Sol, our own treasured sun hits our planet with radiation that makes an EMP look like a cheap firecracker next to a nuke.
I've known that for decades, as I had to rely upon satellite communications and on occasion, things got tricky, to put it mildly. I also tend to have to reboot devices whenever a geomagnetic storm hits, likely from ground currents in the local geology. :/
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At first, the UltraFan seemed to basically be a dusting off of some rather older designs and in some ways, it is. With the twist of variable pitch. Initially, I was confused as to the lack of an outer ring to both duct and spread out stresses, but the variable pitch would render that idea impractical.
Then, I pondered stresses involved and the next item listed was gear reduction, lowering RPM's and hence, those stresses.
So, overall, intriguing designs and may result in the reintroduction of gull wing designs as well. A greater advantage is, now we've got excellent computer modeling, which was impossible when such things were briefly experimented with in the past.
And given we've gotten a helicopter to fly on Mars, this should be much easier!
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Heh, steam gauges. Yep, EMP is rather serious, both local or if it's a major hit above the thermosphere, where it's far nastier.
Animal sourced fertilizer, I'm gonna have to steal that one.
I am a tiny bit surprised at the 8 - 10 requirement, it was previously a half dozen.
Wiring, that's largely fiber now. Can't discuss that further at all.
Or booze bottles found inside of an aircraft under construction.
Boeing is doing Boeing, it's looking out for its own interests, rather than previous prestige.
And I anticipate a change of course, post door blowing off impacting, well, prestige.
See excrement striking primary impeller...
And right alongside uncontained fan failure.
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Hydrogen fuel, wonderful stuff, ignore hydrogen embrittlement, that got fixed by a hand wave.
Boeing, they do have a space division that explored hypersonic flight and lifting bodies, which may be leveraged into their commercial aircraft. Giving a wider body, additional lift and smaller size.
As increasing size has another side you didn't cover. Revenue flights that could, say, as a thought experiment, have a capacity of 1000 passengers, but paying passengers only number 100.
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