That’s amazing.
Tolerances in mechanical engineering means the space between two materials, such as between a bolt and a nut.
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Pure hilarity! Or is it nauseatingly pitiful? Whatever.
Utter nonsense. The temperature in the room makes more of a difference than the moon does. The heat transfer from your hands make a bigger difference.
huh
Huh?????
Ok, so the ground shifts say 2mm at the nose of the plane, and 2mm at each wingtip, and 2mm at the tail of the plane.
So isn’t the plane in the same alignment as all of it is 2mm different???
And another thing...”Tolerances in mechanical engineering means the space between two materials, such as between a bolt and a nut. “ If the nut and bolt are put together properly, there is no space in between at all. They should be completely touching.
Frankly, I’d be more worried about this kind of thing:
http://defensetech.org/2007/02/27/that-deaf-dumb-and-blind-jet/
Amazing! I would have never thought about that.
It sounds rather silly that a combat aircraft will be more sensitive to tidal gravity than, say, a fragile edifice like the Crystal Cathedral.
The writer must be scientifically illiterate. The vertical amplitude of earth tides can be as much as 15 inches. And yes, ocean tides do load the edges of the land masses to a very small but measurable degree.
If only we had a candidate with such a ‘far fetched’ engineering vision...
Hmm, how does this fetish with tight tolerances affect field and depot level maintenance? Can you realistically expect to maintain scientific lab level tolerances with 20 year old maintenance techs in an open hanger 500 miles from nowhere?
Oh.....this is why the towel bar I put up in the bathroom keeps falling off.