"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
01/22/2016 at 21:32 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
01/22/2016 at 21:32 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 5
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This past week I’ve gone from the person who is supposed to know about a lot of little airplane pieces to the person who is suppose to know about these things. It should be fun. I get to play with additive manufacturing, lasers and things on fire.
DasWauto
> f86sabre
01/22/2016 at 21:53 |
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Laser sintered titatium for the fan blades? Colour me jealous.
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f86sabre
> DasWauto
01/22/2016 at 21:58 |
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That would be the one. Turbine blades though.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
01/23/2016 at 11:15 |
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I’m reminded of Skunk Works, where Kelly Johnson would call Ben Rich into his office to say, “Rich, go find out all you can about
xyz
,” even if it wasn’t Rich’s area of expertise. But don’t worry. Those things are just made up of lots of little airplane pieces anyway.
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f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
01/23/2016 at 11:20 |
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Kind of the way I look at it. I know how to engineer and run an engineering team. I'm not worried about the new subject matter.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
01/23/2016 at 11:26 |
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A few years ago, I was teaching trumpet lessons at a small private college north of Austin. The department asked me if I’d be willing to teach brass methods (teaching mus ed students about all the brass instruments) and arranging (writing for all the instruments of the orchestra). The former is a course taught by music education professors, and the latter is usually taught by music theory or composition instructors. All of my degrees are in trumpet performance, a pretty specialized field. I was a little dismayed about my new assignment, so I called my dad, who had been teaching music history and theory in college for 40 years. He said, “Bottom line, you know more than the students do. You’ll do fine.” And it was fine, and a good experience.