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In addition to what Jim posted, both unions at Boeing decided to go on strike just when airlines were jumping to Boeing when Air Bus was having...
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You are right Terry. On the DOD space programs I was associated, DOD wanted oversight and also NASA expendable programs. NASA’s man space flight...
If you want decent BBQ, try Lonny Boy’s BBQ in Hurricane which is just north of St. George.
First race was Sebring 1959. All the races at Long Beach with the last being 1983.
Glad to see slide rules were being used in the first picture (1949 engineers)…especially the pocket slide rule.
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Born and raised in St. Pete. Albert Whitted was where my dad kept our plane. Al Lang field was where the Cardinals spring trained a long with...
Congratulations Bob on being recognized in Boeing News.
Impressive Bob!
Interesting article. More fun to read the comments. Boeing Huntington Beach has only a few buildings still standing and they will be gone shortly.
Your lab experiment reminded me of my physics experiment. I made a liquid rocket engine. I used a small bottle of compressed air, glass bottle...
Bob/Jeff- I was Boeing Huntington Beach, and as I have written before, we couldn’t understand just when commercial aircraft had Air Bus up against...
Atlas is now a family of launch vehicles just like Delta. Both Atlas and Delta were derived from ICBM/IRBMs. I worked on Delta, Delta II, Delta...
Jim - the Shuttle solid motor grain was designed to produce max thrust at lift off then lower thrust so that at 50 seconds, which was the time of...
All of our launch vehicles that used solid propellant strap on motors, the grain design were tailored to minimize Max Q effects on the vehicle.
Will - They still do it, if fact they did it twice at the November Air Show at Nellis.
With you Bob!
You do not have to subscribe to read the other two parts of the article....just click on the X in the upper right corner of the box asking you to...
This article is right on, having lived through the infusion of GE into an engineering company. RONA and the Japanese business model of “Just in...