Posted on 02/23/2015 4:09:45 PM PST by ckilmer
Amazing what was done pre-computer throughout history.
Tell him to read the book about the Skunk Works, and how they developed and modeled the radar evading designs. Now THAT is a great story. (The Russians actually discovered it and published their their results, but did not understand its significance.)
I later worked with an Electrical Engineer who had worked there at the time - he had nothing to say about what they did, but a lot to say about how they did it. It is a great challenge to be a part of something like that - go for it!!
Location, location....if that home were in my state it might be listed for $350,000....and be lucky to get $290,000...that’s all folks!
Location??
They’re probably 2 degrees where that house is sitting...You’d have to be pretty stupid and on the government payroll to spend nearly a million on that cracker box.
Thanks for the ping. Apparently, they are having difficulty finding and recruiting the kind of engineers they need.
Kinda knew this was coming...there is an age factor, but there’s also the denigration factor.
Those who work in the Skunk Works do so with no glory, recognition or thanks for their work...kinda hard to convince young folks these days to work in relative obscurity.
And then to have one’s efforts compared to $hit day in and day out while being accused of stealing from the taxpayer...sure, sign me up.
The upside is that, at least for now, you have to be a citizen or at least on your way to becoming a citizen in order to work in aerospace. The aerospace companies would love to offshore lots of work or use H-1b's to cut costs, but the government is more afraid of technology theft than busting budgets right now.
Thanks for link to the book.
I’m on it!
Heh, heh...still have the slide rule my Dad gave me at HS graduation.
German Albert Nestler, about 12” long, ivory scales, boxwood, with legends printed in German, housed in nice wooden case. The cursor is glass with chromed frame.
EMP hardened
Dad got while at Rhein-Main during Berlin Airlift for a pack of Luckies.
Dad got while at Rhein-Main during Berlin Airlift for a pack of Luckies’..............
Jeeze Louise, thems some serus bragging rights.
Sehr gut.
I’ve always said, whatever they let you see is at least one generation behind what they’ve got working, and several generations behind what they’re working on.
I still have and use a slide rule that I used in Electronic classes in 1962 and 1963.
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