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Of course, some...
Oh well, I didn't mean to start open season on government engineers. buzzp is right that my main issues on the Navy program were with the program people. Still, I remember the Navy's engineers on that program being continually frustrated by the direction they were getting. ERaymond gives some...
Check with battery suppliers. There are dozens of battery sites on the web. Give some a call.
The lightest battery per watt-hour will be a NiCad. I'm not sure about smallest size per watt-hour. They can be a nuisance, though,as anyone who hassome knows.
You will need to know the operating...
Yes, GregLocock has mentioned one area where math gets used in a production environment. I was remiss to not remember it. Dynamics work is quite interesting.
In my company, an effort is made to hire engineering technology majors (2-year diploma) for drafting work; but in a crunch a lot of the...
Some random thoughts:
It has always been a mystery to me why companies hire degreed engineers to do draftsman work at a CAD terminal. Some like it and find the geometry and design/tooling coordination job to be very rewarding; but I’ve seen many excellent engineers become disillusioned and...
I once managed a very large Navy program for my company. It was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Upon delivering everything required by contract, the Navy refused to pay because the using command never liked what the procuring command had bought. The Navy's contract administrator...
What's a Cessna 40x ? There are no spoilers on the Cesssna 400-series airplanes, as delivered by Cessna. Did someone sell an after-market spoiler mod?
What do you mean by central axis -- the longitudinal (fore-aft) axis?
Why would spoilers cause a rotation about a different axis than...
mac*,
Surely you jest. On a piston-powered airplane, what would provide the required airflow at the temperatures and pressure needed by an OBOGS? (Piston turbos do not provide 2 atmospheres pressure at 18,000ft). And who makes an OBOGS that competes in the same price range as the OX bottle...
How nice. I'd like a million dollars in small, unmarked bills.
Try google. It had to be harder to enter this site than it would have been to go directly to Google. If you haven't got time for that then neither do the rest of us.
patdaly,
Thank you. You make some good points, yourself.
IRstuff,
It may be a good thing that there is no Nobel Prize for Engineering, given they have awarded their Peace Prize to a terrorist thug. I imagine they might award an Engineering Prize to Al Gore for inventing the Internet.
Any...
ChrisatEastAg,
I can't find anything on a search for a five rivers dam, but perhaps you meant the Chinese Three Gorges Dam. Unfortunately, it is already being reviled as a disaster waiting to happen. It's elevation to a list of the world's most impressive projects would be technically...
Democracy and capitalism breed opportunity, including the opportunity for excellence to flourish and prevail.
Excellence dwells in the human spirit and will show itself even in non-democratic states; however, the most repressive regimes can suppress even the spirit of men and produce only...
I can't speak for how highly the engineering profession is regarded in the US compared to other countries because I haven't actually experienced the differences, if any; and I would guess that not many commenters here have, either. In any case, I have never been given cause to think of myself...
IRstuff
Umm, I think the topic is external noise during climbout here.
Of course turboprops are noisier inside, but that wasn't the question. As timbeau has mentioned, even though interior noise in a turboprop is high, the external noise of a turboprop is noticeably less to a ground...
IRstuff,
The initial question seems to involve climbout noise signatures of jet transports, which are said to appear to be flying about the same speed as the propeller {turboprop) transports, though it is not clear why the propeller planes are mentioned.
Humph,
Funny? That is absolutely pathetic; but the Godzilla explanation does seem to make sense after you've waded through the whole mind-numbing thought sewer. These people are products of modern public education, no doubt.
