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  1. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    No... we've been subtly 'Tugged' off the track. Any shore-side diesel or turbine aux power unit [APU] must run on high purity turbine, diesel, SAF or CNG fuel to avoid localized air and water pollution... and NOT use low purity ship diesel, turbine or bunker fuel.
  2. WKTaylor

    Air Force Diverts Missile Funds To Modify Qatari 747... Money is being taken from Sentinel ICBM program, which is over budget.

    I feel like I am hallucinating this... participating in a on-going nightmare by buffoons who have no limits... and believe in fairytales and the impossible. https://avweb.com/aviation-news/air-force-diverts-missile-funds-to-modify-qatari-747/
  3. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    I hope this makes sense. I have been accused of TMI... TLDNR... Musk/SpaceX want to play by their own rules and the Law of Unintended Consequences = ShitHappens. ---------- Starters... A few of my favorite sayings are... "Play by the rules, but be ferocious." --Phil Knight, Nike founder...
  4. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Never forget that taxes are the price of our civilization. Look around you and try to visualize what taxes have paid for... and the SUBTRACT what you see from the picture... it would be incredibly desolate 1800's image... Tariffs on-the-other-hand are excise taxes on the purchaser. Pure BS...
  5. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Mexico threatens lawsuit against SpaceX over Starship explosion 'contamination' https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/mexico-threatens-lawsuit-against-spacex-over-starship-explosion-debris
  6. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    ??? The RS-25 New Gen liquid fuel rocket engine... Finally, NASA test-fired a new flight-rated RS-25 engine for the first time last week at Stennis Space Center. The agency has often provided a livestream of its engine tests at Stennis, but it didn't offer the public any live video On the...
  7. WKTaylor

    Shaved CSK NAS1097 rivet strength allowables

    Ahhh... I had a mental f*rt... My brain jumped tracks... thot BB was a typo for B alloy rivets... but You meant the NAS523 code BB... OHhh Duhhh... I avoid B at all cost...
  8. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    OK, a head spinning 'new plan' being floated... It's mind-blowing! SpaceX Starship new Solution to Launch NASA Astronauts to the Moon to Beat China Warning... systems and vehicle cross-compatibility is everything. Test-test-test.
  9. WKTaylor

    Shaved CSK NAS1097 rivet strength allowables

    rb... BB rivets are just a weee bit stronger than A rivets aren't they? OK, reverse bucking with protruding head on inside, bucked-tail into 'what's-left-of-the-countersink' and above flush... shave the tail 'flat' +0.010-to-+0.025 above flush.
  10. WKTaylor

    Southwest Airlines implements changes to address heat hazards amid sweltering summer temperatures

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southwest-airlines-changes-extreme-heat/ In the deep heat of the desert SW USA... the interiors of service-trucks [and parked Acft] can get blistering/insufferably hot... +130F... there is a real threat from distorting and 'exploding soda cans'. Coincidental to that...
  11. WKTaylor

    JetZero Blended wing proposal

    "How do You make a small fortune in aviation? Start with a large fortune." –Howard Hughes
  12. WKTaylor

    Shaved CSK NAS1097 rivet strength allowables

    Comment... NAS1097 what Dia/alloy??? #4, #5, #6... AD, D, KE...etc?? I concur with RB... #1... Remove rivet(s) with shaved-down heads and 'shoot' new NAS1097xx's wet with primer... and allow the heads to 'ride' slightly above flush. #2... Remove rivet(s) with shaved-down heads and install...
  13. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    A cold stare at SpaceX operations 'Star Base' operations in S Texas... https://avweb.com/insider/guest-blog-starbase-isnt-isolated-its-reckless/?oly_enc_id=3425H2623990J2H
  14. WKTaylor

    JetZero Blended wing proposal

    A no name company building a super evolved giant-sized aircraft. Hmmm may be a 1/3 scale prototype... then...
  15. WKTaylor

    what's mine is mine, what's yours is mine ?

    Of course the VN era Vertol CH-47 Shithook long ago became the Boeing CH-47 Chinook or the VN era Hughes UH-6 LOH which is now the Boeing UH-6 or AH-6 Cayuse... or the Hughes AH-64 which is now the Boeing AH-64 Apache... or the Ted Smith Aerostar... which became the Piper Aerostar...
  16. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    LH2 is brutal @ -425F on any composites. Perhaps the use of LM [Liquid Methane] @-258F would be a more viable and safe solution...? After-all, LO2 is -295F and I think that was NOT a problem.
  17. WKTaylor

    Fatigue justification of a thread bolt

    I thought I was a 'fastener guy'... but this is unintelligible to me.
  18. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    OH YEAH lets not forget Titanium O2 tanks in Apollo 13 Service Module... of course they had already experienced unknown damage during proof testing. If I remember correctly the Lockheed Venture Star couldn't shed enough tank mass and was not successful with composite LH2 tanks...
  19. WKTaylor

    SpaceX Starship missions

    Did everyone notice these composite-wrapped-tanks are in the nose of the vehicle?... Forward of the payload/crew compartments... I'm pretty sure the Space Shuttle had titanium propellant tanks in this area.
  20. WKTaylor

    what's mine is mine, what's yours is mine ?

    This reminds me... The General Dynamics F-16 is now the Lockheed-Martin F-16 The McDonnell-Douglas AV8, F-15, F-18, T-45, C-17 MD80s DC10 etc... are NOW the Boeing AV8, F-15, F-18, T-45, C-17, 717, etc...

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