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Old 02-11-2012, 05:24 PM
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...you are right about the lurking
Unfortunately 2+ of those years involved working way too hard and being completely out of the aviation world. I'm back in it now though, and back up in the air, so hopefully those dark dismal non-flying days are behind me .
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Old 02-12-2012, 09:47 AM
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Kelly,
I am very impressed. This is human space flight at it's simplest, and most elegant form.
Thanks! Sometimes I think I had the easiest job in the program
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Old 02-12-2012, 04:08 PM
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Thanks! Sometimes I think I had the easiest job in the program
Reminds me of the book.."Come up here and get me" by the guy who almost went past Mach 1 from over 100,000 feet!

Best,
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Old 02-14-2012, 12:44 PM
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Old 02-14-2012, 02:04 PM
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Default I have the best job!

You guys ALL have cool jobs, but since I spend every day working with you guys I feel like I have the best job. Most of you have already seen me at my summer office...



And my office the rest of the time pretty much looks like a cube in an old pole building.

It truely is an honor to work will all the talented builders out there. I wish more could feel the sense of joy, pride, and fulfillment that this hobby and subset of society brings.


P.S. Love the ATC pictorial!!

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Old 02-15-2012, 05:17 AM
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tk I'm forwarding that to all of my controller buddies. Hilarious.
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Old 02-15-2012, 03:17 PM
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Outstanding TKATC. As a pilot I really do appreciate what you do. It has been a long time ago but a guy just like you vectored me out of REALLY bad storms in St. Louis, with a really heavy load in c206. In those days we didn't have all the nice weather stuff we do now.

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Old 04-09-2012, 08:02 PM
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Talking Not rocket science but....

I have worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for the last 39+ years. I am an electronic engineer and Deputy Division Head.
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Old 04-17-2012, 02:41 PM
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Mechanical Engineer for a USAF (and commercial) contractor you've never heard of. We do aging aircraft support. I've spent a BUNCH of time on this:

Which is the center wing/outer wing joing on a C-130. The center wing fitting is a piece of junk that has to be replaced regularly. I designed the tooling that the USAF Depots will be using to replace this part, hopefully faster and with fewer mistakes.

I also do structural testing, up to 250,000 lb on something up to 15 ft long. We've done wing joint parts for military and commercial companies (Piper Jet, which got canned right after we finished our testing...), composite stringer panels for a commercial jet maker, BIG bolts, 4" wide titanium friction plug weld coupons...you name it, I've broken it.

Also design and analyze aircraft components including lately a LOT of stuff for the MC-130W (now renamed AC-130W, so yeah, that means guns!). Mostly REdesign actually, to fix other's mistakes. I don't understand how some people sleep at night knowing they design airplane parts while being such awful engineers...

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Old 04-17-2012, 05:17 PM
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And here all this time I thought GTMULE was because you liked the rock band.
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