V_Terranova_Jr

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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
> Nobody does this, not even the most outspoken anarchist libertarian. Listen to any debate aired in the press about regulation and it almost invariably degenerates into "more vs. less". This is consistent with U.S. political
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
More important is to appoint someone with the right motivations and with a technical background. A pilot with a good formal technical background might be a fine FAA leader, but so might someone with technical expertise in the operations of
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I should have been more clear and said "foster a culture of regulatory competence and good judgment". This is certainly achievable with the right leadership, wide-basis political protection (cannot be achieved when an agency'
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
FAA acquiescence to Industry, especially these days, is probably not much worse than a lot of other Government regulatory agencies. As much as the current administration has zealously populated high-level leadership roles with people whose
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Having worked with Boeing on other aerospace programs (not commercial though) and having been on the Gov side, the basic findings ring true. Boeing's culture really is as flawed as the report reads. The idea that Dennis Muilenburg, h
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
This just isn't going to happen.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Seconded.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
The saddest thing about NASA is that the remarkable engineering and scientific capability it possesses... is managed by NASA. It's a great example of one of the most profoundly dysfunctional bureaucracies within the U.S. Government.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
This is likely an oversimplification. There are multiple organizations, even within Boeing Defense & Space, that write their own flight software. All stovepiped and largely working in parallel. This doesn't even include the comm
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Months and thousands of miles on our Model 3, and I would still prefer tactile controls over the way Tesla does it. And this from someone who experienced input on the iphone working way better in practice than the keys on a Blackberry.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Privacy is not something Elon or the U.S. writ large cares much about beyond the superficial, so it's not something Tesla cares about handling well for those of us who do value it. Not saying it will necessarily be any better with oth
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I'm a Model 3 owner who loves the underlying drivetrain technology, and a fair number of Tesla's design decisions, but am largely in the camp of the GP (I've posted on this before: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I'm an Aerospace Engineer, currently working for the U.S. Gov, but have spent time on the Industry side. I don't have a thesis per se after reading this, but several thoughts: - I don't think it's unfair to vilify Boein
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Cool, thanks! I hadn't spent any time researching options to deal with this issue yet, so take this message as tempering that line of criticism.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
To imply that there hasn't been some kind of serious inflection point with the current administration is to be disingenuous. That being said, I agree wholeheartedly with holding all administrations to equal account. But that doesn&#x
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I think a far deeper issue is lack of domain expertise on the part of most journalists, and the field of journalism implying this is fine or that journalists build expertise just through reporting. How many times has there been an unrigoro
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
That's a fair point - I had taken it as a specific political targeting as opposed to part of the whole "the press is the enemy of the people" line of rhetoric. On the other hand, anyone pushing that line probably approves of
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
This is crazy. Ben Watson writes/edits for DefenseOne, which has certainly published a fair bit critical of Trump & his team; but then if you are a member of the reality-based community, and a public writer about stories in the na
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Counterpoint, as a Model 3 owner. The lack of tactile controls for things like climate controls, sound system, etc., is very frustrating. I find myself having to mess around with the touchscreen much more than I'd like while driving.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
>> Yeah, C++ has been working out great on the F-35. The number of scary C and C++ architectures flying currently is quite troubling. While DoD is coming to grips with the fact most aerospace primes take a 1990s approach to software d
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Ada has been on the way out, at least in recent U.S. DoD flight system developments (and likely NASA as well) for a long time. I don't see this trend reverting any time soon. On the other hand, we can, and I hope will, move to much mo
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
MIL-STD-1553 is still alive and well in a lot of places, including newly-designed DoD aircraft.
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
The technically-minded will enjoy Prof. Bill Mason's inside detail regarding his time as one of the principal aerodynamicists on the X-29: http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/AnX-29StoryV3.pdf Also, NAS
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I work with these large aerospace primes and see no consistent display of vision, long-term thinking, or integrity among them. I'm not saying these qualities don't exist within their ranks, just that they never become overriding
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
Air France 447, Qantas 32, and Qantas 72 all highlighted significant flaws in Airbus' Guidance/Nav/Controls subsystems and their automation approach. That doesn't make the article's criticisms of Boeing the slighte
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by V_Terranova_Jr 7y ago
I'm an aerospace engineer who does work for the U.S. Government. When it comes to journalism, I'm a stickler for not oversimplifying the technical in attempt to make things understandable to the layperson or to support feeling-ba