Posts by sanmigueelbeer 764 posts • joined 5 Oct 2016
alternating with every flight
No, that is not how Boeing designed it. The flights (plural) before the fatal JKT one had experienced the same thing. The pilot flying mistakenly did the correct thing and disabled the MCAS from the circuit breaker. Unfortunately, he failed to make a note in the sheet and failed to passed this information to the next flight.
Boeing's MCAS takes the reading from the two AoA vanes and picks the worst reading as the "truth".
There is another flaw to this whole MCAS saga that everyone seems to forget: Angle of Attack vanes
In the MAX, there are only TWO (2) of them. In both incidents, one of the two vanes was feeding faulty information back to the MCAS. MCAS picked the WORST reading as "reliable" and then started pitching the nose down.
Guess what, MAX will continue to have two AoA vanes.
If there were three vanes, it is an easy "election". But with two ... Just sayin'.
why did the FAA resist grounding the plane after the second fatal crash
Because the FAA was taking their "cue" from Boeing. Boeing instructed recommended to the FAA that the MAX was still safe to fly (after the 2nd crash), however, all-bets-are-off and the-fat-lady-has-sung when China immediate suspended all MAX operation from it's airspace and Japan followed a few hours later.
FAA had a tough choice to make: Cut your loses or be the world's laughing stock
Let's put it in a different perspective: IF the FAA didn't ground the MAX, the only place where the MAX would still be flying would be in America.
And in Rockhound's famous quote: You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
And if that doesn't give anyone a "warm fuzzy feeling", how about this: KC-46 delivery to Seymour Johnson delayed after debris found in fuel tank
My point is this: Boeing can't even do a simple quality control on a FUEL TANK of a single airframe. What are the chances they've "fully tested" the software?
My confidence level on the MAX will improve if the entire Boeing Board, President and VPs, including the upper echelon of the FAA are on a test flight of a MAX flying from the east coast to the west coast and back -- y'know, just to be sure.
By the way, how can the government pay for these new cloud services when they've already borrowed billions for COVID relief which they've said is not enough?
China will pay as long as the Philippines will install Huawei-only infrastructure.
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Political Correctness has gone from bonkers to fully-bonkers.
There is no turning back.
The phrase "illegal alien" needs to be changed to "unauthorized entry" or "person-not-allowed-to-be-in-this-country".
"black pen" will need to be "deep, deep blue pen".
We can't use "yellow" because it might offend other sensitive racial people. How about substitute yellow for "sunflower colour"?
CISCO June 2020 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication
Get patching, everyone!
Hackers hit remotely rootable SaltStack systems (04 May 2020)
The flaws were found by Finnish security vendor F-Secure early last month, and affect the SaltStack Salt master which sends updates to Salt minions that control servers, often large amounts of them.
F-Secure said that the vulnerabilities that are rated as the highest 10.0 severity, and added that they are reliable and simple to exploit.
They do, however need clearance to fly the plane commercially
Boeing needs approval from aviation regulators from other countries and not just the FAA.
Because of the MAX fiasco, the FAA has lost all "credibility". All the world aviation regulators, from Japan, China, EU, AU & NZ, Russia, etc. now have a "say" in it as the FAA "rubber stamp" is no longer worth any currency.
I doubt if he will lose.
There are so many ways to be the winner in the US elections: How come Donald Trump won if Hillary Clinton got more votes?
Unlike in other countries, voting in the US is not compulsory.
I can image the NHS call will go something like this:
You have received this call because you may be infected. We know who you are. We know exactly where you are now. An armed response unit is on their way to your location now. Get down on your knees, put your hands behind your head and get ready for their arrival. We hope you'll have a pleasant journey. Good-bye.
New Raspberry Pi 4 update beta lets you boot from a USB mass storage device
TSMC want to spend $12bn building a semiconductor plant in Arizona USA and senators are complaining?
And NVIDIA gets sued because it made money. WTF has the world turned into!
Lets see: Jack Reed is a senator from Rhonde Island, Patrick Leahy a Vermont senator and Chuck Schumer represents the state of NY.
Yup, they want a piece of the $12bn pie.
This is how US politics works: For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
The guy called me some naughty things in an East Indian language then slammed down the phone
Oh that's nothing. I once inserted the word "Pakistani" in the sentence to an Indian scammer (describing his nationality).
Let's just say, he didn't hold back.
NOTE: I regretted not recording that call.
When the US spearheaded globalization they handed the "keys", lock-stock-and-barrels, to China. Because the US no longer manufactures, the schools, colleges and universities stopped churning out graduates that once provided the backbone and lifeblood to the US manufacturing "might".
The late Steve Jobs summed it all when he had dinner with then US President Obama (original article HERE or HERE):
He called America's lackluster education system an obstacle for Apple, which needed 30,000 industrial engineers to support its on-site factory workers."
"You can't find that many in America to hire," Jobs told the president. "If you could educate these engineers, we could move more manufacturing plants here."
And we all know how much the current and previous "get along".
The US sold the "goose that lay the golden egg" and now it wants it back.
Like with Apple's announcement (opening a manufacturing plant in Texas), I'll wait for the TSMC factory to produce chips (in commercial quantity) before believing.
One last bit, remember this article: A tale of Apple, the iPhone, and overseas manufacturing? China has set a very high "standard" of expectation that no American manufacturing can match: When Apple revamped the design of the iPhone's screen at the last minute, a foreman (one person!) woke up 8000 workers in the middle of the night with nothing but a fookin' biscuit and a cup of tea. Overtime? Nadda. How about a biscuit (only one) and a cup of tea instead? Try doing that sort of stunt in the US and the mighty labor union will be all over you like an itch in places you can't scratch.
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