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| coppercone2:
sounds like everything with a fuel tank is vulnerable, I don't know if you can just say one boeing plane design has some kind of insane fuel tank design that induces fear in mammals so bad that it makes technicians run away screaming with booties flying So, rejection of boeing products in general does sound good (not just one plane). Unless they managed to make a ghost trap by accident :-DD Drop your tools and run/crawl so fast that you loose your shoes in a tight vent. Where have I seen this scene before? I believe its a scene in one of the old james bond where he gets chased by the robowelder in the oil pipe. He might have literally lost a shoe.. Maybe some shoes were lost in the prometheus, the nostromo and the auriga. In reality though, its probably sticky crap on the ground yanking the booties off. I do wonder however if there are any reports of ominous growling and other spooky noises. I will say, if I see shoes left on the ground in odd places, I do get a bit concerned. Thats something that should make the hairs stand. |
| Electro Detective:
I too attended this post for the booties thing :clap: hoping to beat any Moderator 'Imperial Entanglements' :scared: Sounds to me boeing have either disgruntled competition, suss employees or old school 'other peoples money' using ratbags that want to buy them out cheap, after they get a bad rep So what else is new in 2020 ? :palm: :popcorn: |
| coppercone2:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on February 23, 2020, 08:25:38 am ---I too attended this post for the booties thing :clap: hoping to beat any Moderator 'Imperial Entanglements' :scared: Sounds to me boeing have either disgruntled competition, suss employees or old school 'other peoples money' using ratbags that want to buy them out cheap, after they get a bad rep So what else is new in 2020 ? :palm: :popcorn: --- End quote --- i don't think its anything malicious, this happens at NASA all the time but no one cares because its satellites and no one dies (maybe congressmen's heart rate is elevated). They have to clean a bunch of complicated pipe work after testing rocket engines and end up leaving cleaning wipes in them. it's easy to fix it with inspection (they cannot leave the flushing fluid in the pipes because of corrosion and apparently heating them does not work for some reason). I think its still gummy or something after the flush and you just need to scrub it a bit. IRRC there is a prelaunch test, and it tends to die during that phase, when a specially woven cleaning wipe and possibly bit of stainless steel rod hits a turbo pump or something think the andromeda strain where they are looking for contamination on the satellite |
| Nominal Animal:
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| Kjelt:
The good thing it is not intentional as it was in the early 70s carmakers where bored pot smoking assembly line workers put rocks in the most expensive cars fuel tank. But human mistakes do happen, even surgeons leave sometimes instruments and wipes behind per accident |
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