My choices are:
Old Times
Vitrivius - Roman engineer, some of his works are still in use.
Og - for fire.
Industrial Age
Whitworth - For micrometer and screw.
Tesla - For inventing A/C.
Parsons - For the gas turbine.
Brunel - Father and Son for bridges and ships.
Modern Age
Dr. Stan...
Raptor,
I last saw this materiel being used on IL86 airframes. Try this site to track down a supplier http://www.aluminet.com/forum/alforum.html
Rgds
Allan
The SAE has some on line courses for new CATIA 5 users. Also if you sign up for a course at a local college make sure that it is an "approved" training site. If it is IBM will sell you a full seat for about $300. The software will run for one year on a Windows XP machine. Machine...
As a somewhat crusty engineer - who still has a brand new Pickett 800-ES with belt holster, I have used TDR (Time domain Reflectrometry) to find intermittent shorts on large engine harnesses.
This could be done on a carrier as the EW guys usually have something like this.
One word of...
For anyone in Aerospace the guiding factor should be Augustine's Laws. A good (working) link is:
http://www.laughnet.net/archive/misc/augesti.htm
For this topic law # XV applies:
LAW NUMBER XV:
The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the...
I have found that MS project is overpowered for many of the basic projects. For relatively simple projects especially one where I can use repeating templates I use Milestones Plus by Kidasa Software.
The program is very user friendly and, if needed, the data can be imported from MS Project...
Graham,
If you are talking about a turboprop run up stand then a good place to start is with the negine interfece control document or manual. That will give you the normal (zero) G loading condition for the mounting points and the expected loads in the event of a full power seizure.
A test...