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To: gwmoore
Just getting over spinal surgery, and have no feeling in my left hand ;-),, I am relearning how to type, which is difficult with no "position sense, or how hard you touch the keys.... Greg

Well (tongue in cheek) since your name is Greg - the name of one of my wonderful sons (works on Shuttle Program) you are forgiven. All Greg's with one g on end are good guys :O)

198 posted on 04/03/2005 12:39:54 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: maine-iac7
Thanks, maine-iac7. If he works on the aft bay, please tell him to be very careful with the rudder, speed brake, and body flap position transducers. (They look like zinc-chromate colored orange juice cans with 4 leads coming out the side); one lead for each of the 4 redundant computer systems.

I helped in the design and fabrication for the first units back in the mid 1970's. We all signed one of the orignal flight-certified units,(with NASA approved marking ink, of course, and subjected the signed unit to the environmental tests to make sure that the signatures were compatible with all applicable NASA specs, and were duly signed off by the NASA inspection staff LOL... and I am not positive if it was used in the Enterprise OV-101 or not... I have always wanted to go see the display, and see if I couldn't get permission to go aboard to see if one of the units was the signed one ;-) I still feel proud of that. I have a spare of one of the leads, and a connector, on a plaque which the Company presented to me, with the details of what it was used for, and then a humorous saying "Your Tax Dollars at Work : $2,000/ft) which occupies a place of honor in my ham shack. (I wanted to put it in the living room, but Mrsgwmoore was not particularly happy with the idea... I wonder why??? LOL

It is nice to know that another Greg is carrying on the work on the Shuttle program. I haven't had a chance to see a launch since 1980, on the first mission, when we were invited down. A fantastic time was had by all the engineers concerned [(and then we got to see the launch) (Huge Wicked Grin)]

Greg

214 posted on 04/03/2005 1:03:07 AM PST by gwmoore (As the manual for the Russian Nagant revolver states: "Target Practice:'At the Deserter, FIRE' '')
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