Posted on 03/31/2012 2:47:00 PM PDT by U-238
And my statement isn’t specifically to anything especially aeronautical. Anytime you change hardware, software, firmware, and use new things and make new configurations, and change the way control systems monitor and interpret, change vendors for parts, change what computer chips you’re using, hell, even what wiring you’re using to connect everything, new and different problems can arise that were not present in prior planes (or subs, or cars, or boats) because they are different parts and materials and vendors and configurations.
I mean problems can arise in machines that were working just fine but they change a vendor for a part and that part isn’t as good as the prior part, and now they’re getting failures they never had before. It is totally possible given the complexity of these systems.
The THEORY behind how the systems of things is the same, but the physical systems themselves, being designed and made differently can cause problems in one that are not present in another.
You are a cool guy
When things get really bad they send a humanoid up in a saucer to fix it.
Yeah...like the Marine helicopters that fell out of the sky with split rotors a few years ago....
Caused by an operator cleaning her nails with acetone.
On a lighter note....a semiconductor chip manufacturing plant went haywire every few weeks,,,,until it was discovered that some duty one on the night shift was bead blasting motorcycle parts in the bead blaster used for critical fab components.
Really...no more LOX converters?
Watch the training movie, The Man From LOX.
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