Toyota UA-LAC
Kent McLean
kentmclean at comcast.net
Fri Jan 29 09:08:28 PST 2010
Scruggs Family wrote:
> I recently retired from 24 years at the Office of Naval Intelligence as a
> Scientific and Technical Intelligence Analyst of... you guessed it...
> aircraft platforms. I've been to the Paris Airshow and to the Farnborough
> Airshow many times. I've been to the production facilities of every major
> military and commercial airframe and engine manufacturer in the West. I've
> seen platforms and technologies that I still can't talk about.
Scruggs, you are making it awfully difficult for me to believe that
you're an idiot. :)
Ob Pratt & Whitney. I did some consulting there (E. Hartford location) years
ago. There was story passed around about a new engine that miserably failed
the chicken test, until they found out the new the test engineer wasn't
thawing out the chickens before launching them at the engine.
--
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"
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