Aviation Technology

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Discussing the ancient airline tech.

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Well well well, what's this

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the latest airline tech

is this a joke

we still rocking the gds 🔥🔥🔥

jkjk I’m trolling

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Lol

you would be terrified to hear how ancient and held together with just enough hopes and prayers to pass FAA/CAA inspection some of those "modern" aircraft are

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Wonder if i still have the pics from my last jet work

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Tbf the space shuttle had a Fly-By-Wire system with less power than the phone I use to watch funny reddit videos

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cough boeing nearly killing 20 military jets because they didn't do FOD control cough

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Uhh which ones? I know about boeings civvie fuckups but not that

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Uh it i remember right it was new F-22s
Basically Boeing hadn't checked them fully and the military found loose nuts and bolts freely inside the fuel tanks.

They sent every single one back and demanded a full inspection and not a single more till all of em passed the military's final inspections.

Boeing has been shitty for like a decade on QA
There's whole documentaries about it

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Ahh boeing the gift that keeps on giving

that really shouldn't

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Boeing's been going downhill since they bought out McDonnell Douglas and got their braindead MBA executive ghouls

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Mhm

But Yea

Thankfully General Aviation tech is pretty up to date

Oshkosh 2019 i was at there was a booth for open source off the shelf consumer electronics for avionics systems

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huh. neat

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https://makerplane.org/ found it

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now that's really cool.