AWildC182

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by AWildC182 6y ago
Are you sure you aren't thinking of ITAR et al? "Customs" is a bit of a broad statement here.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
This is why people need to start rejecting closed ecosystems. If you own the hardware you can control everything that happens on it including companies trying to force their will upon you
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by AWildC182 6y ago
I agree 100%, though in reality these events happen almost yearly at this point, just not quite this widespread. In just the past few years we've seen tons of localized outbreaks such as the ebola and zika scares. It's a pretty
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Sorry for the late reply... Test pilots by definition are pilots with an engineering background. They're often seasoned aircraft mechanics and/or aerospace engineers.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Kit: Yes, in my case it's an RV-8 by https://www.vansaircraft.com/ they're probably the biggest name in town by volume and they make mid-cost kits. There are some more and less expensive options however. Hard: I
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by AWildC182 6y ago
I work in aerospace software so I live in between those two realities. Much like software, they'll do testing to make sure everything is bonded. They've also done plenty of modeling to determine what the expected strength is and
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Depends on the event. I've never heard of anyone doing an xray on hangar rash type damage, at least not within a part 91 environment. Taxiing into a pole would be a different issue however.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Aluminum aircraft go together more or less the same way. There will be some inspection panels but the interesting stuff is already exposed, there's very little reason to go inside the wings, particularly on a composite aircraft where
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Carbon repairs are relatively easy as long as they don't damage any internal structure. IIRC they usually just patch and sand.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Building a plane in my garage. You'd be surprised how minimal yet how strong a lot of these structures are. The vast majority of the material I use is thinner than a credit card.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
And forcing companies to make the of their firmware source code available would fix all of this. The market will always steer everyone to the lowest common denominator and as a result fails when the externalities of pollution and e-waste ar
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Because by allowing companies to market segment through software they inherently have to cripple the ability to repair products/right-to-repair.
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Hence why closed source firmware should be illegal
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by AWildC182 6y ago
Best I can tell, the stock market is trying to look mid-term and investors are assuming (read speculating ) that his whole thing will blow over and life will resume its normal cadence. Obviously this isn't reality but if you have enou
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by AWildC182 7y ago
A light bar for a light bar makes the whole world blind
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by AWildC182 7y ago
They're allowed to have discussion that exist off the record. Classifying things mean they are forcing such discussions to happen in secure facilities and under very specific terms in order to prevent foreign interception. That seems
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Anyone with a better background, are micro surface features required for this kind of thing or could teflon/rain-x type chemical coatings create a more durable/corrosion resistant/easily repairable effect?
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Could be easier said than done. There are lots of edge cases that could become a problem in real use. Stuff like surface contamination from various fluids or environmental factors.
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Would be nice to save weight on full size anti ice systems. Flying around to test anti icing is also not the greatest approach. If ice starts to build up and you shed it, it can come off in chunks and break things.
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Interesting approach and hugely useful if practical, though it bears mentioning that the leading edges on aircraft experience a fair amount of abrasion from dust, debris, and insects. I wonder how long this treatment would be effective for
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by AWildC182 7y ago
I've worked on both sides of that, I think you'd be surprised. I also suspect that it's worse at the TLAs and any organization with access to FBI, license plate and various criminal databases. Obviously CCard databases and
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by AWildC182 7y ago
I'm starting to get the feeling that a lot of these jobs, both tech and government, are low key treating non public data access as a perk. For context, I interviewed with a company that had police videos stored on their systems and wer
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by AWildC182 7y ago
The stuff described would mostly fit in a backpack as it's all backpacking gear to begin with. The only thing that wouldn't would be 30 days of food and water which is probably overkill. A reasonable food supply would fit in a c
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by AWildC182 7y ago
It's as if killing the golden goose is a tale as old as time...
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Wow... I've never read so much bullshit in one blog post. They're basically hoping that nobody who reads this has any embedded development knowledge.
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by AWildC182 7y ago
Why did Yubikey ever close source their firmware? It's really saddening to see a company going back on that
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by AWildC182 7y ago
I definitely see things going in this direction eventually however. They've been trying to push it with cars for a while now, doing it with aircraft is trivial by comparison
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by AWildC182 7y ago
What did you build? Working on an RV8 myself.
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by AWildC182 7y ago
I don't think it's quite so altruistic. Militaries are systematically moving to smaller, more precise munitions across the board. If they're smaller and smarter you need A)fewer of them for a given mission and B)can carry m
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by AWildC182 7y ago
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