[eric strt6]

and all of us that leave our bikes kinda dirty

The Waddington Effect

http://blog.aopa.org/opinionleaders/2014/01/14/the-waddington-effect/

 

[stevew]

he's still looking for the guy who took his jacket.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

In 1943, a British scientist named Conrad Hal (C.H.) Waddington made a remarkable discovery about aircraft maintenance. He was a most unlikely person to make this discovery, because he wasn’t an aeronautical engineer or an aircraft mechanic or even a pilot. Actually, he was a gifted developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist, philosopher, poet and painter who wasn’t particularly interested in aviation.

I read that as gynecologist and thought it was no surprise he was intrigued by unmaintained hangars.

 

[jdcamb]

Embryologist.... yeah sure he was...

 

[Pesqueeb]

Yea, I don't think you have to be involved in maintenance very long to realize all that's true. Scheduled maintenance is one of the worst things we do to these airplanes. It's the reason I have the particular position I have right now. My job is basically free safety/triage for all the things that got missed/forgotten/fvcked up during scheduled maintenance the night before.

 

[Pesqueeb]

he's still looking for the guy who took his jacket.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Also, not to be pedantic, but:

Hangar

Hanger

 

[eric strt6]

I figured it was where you did this to jacket thieves:

NSFW

 

[Pesqueeb]

I figured it was where you did this to jacket thieves:

NSFW

I doubt that's painful enough.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Don't bring mandown into this.

 

[eric strt6]

I doubt that's painful enough.

yeah but you could hang a set of tires off his nuts

 

[yellowdogx]

So don't do maintenance, find nothing broken, planes still fly?

Doesn't exactly ooze thoughts if safety dies it?

I guess the 13 years I did as a AME were for nothing.... I wonder if the same thing holds true for trains (my new job) as well?

 

[Pesqueeb]

So don't do maintenance, find nothing broken, planes still fly?

Doesn't exactly ooze thoughts if safety dies it?

I guess the 13 years I did as a AME were for nothing.... I wonder if the same thing holds true for trains (my new job) as well?

I'm pretty sure that's not what that article says at all.

 

[kgm]

Yup, there is definitely a sweet spot between maintenance intervals! I try to balance this on my bikes as well as my cars. Doing enough without having it apart all the time and screwing stuff up.

 

[jimmydean]

Also, not to be pedantic, but:

Hangar

Hanger

Must spread rep...

I recall my first air lift in the navy. There was a hydraulic hose leaking when we took off and I pointed it out. The guy said "Keep an eye on it, if it stops leaking it means we've run out of fluid and will be going down soon..." I felt much better after that.

 

[X3pilot]

Still use that theory today, except is called RCM Reliability Centered Maintenance. Only do the jobs that are required based on analytical study of failures. If you can prove a part only fails every 400 hours, on average, why inspect it every 50? Drives maintenance planners nuts, but it works.

 

[Colonel Angus]

Embryologist.... yeah sure he was...

so he liked to eat eggs, so what?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

so he liked to eat eggs, so what?

That's an embryophagist.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

homophobe

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I noticed that on the way by.

 

[jdcamb]

I like to throw rocks at innocents to instigate random rock wars. Does that make me a soldier?

No, it makes me the asshole that goes to the park and whips rocks at the other park users.

 

[MMike]

that was you?

 

[jdcamb]

that was you?

Maybe... As a Irishmen I am genetically predisposed to throw rocks. Sorry about that.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

So that's how you get your RRocks off?

 

[jdcamb]

So that's how you get your RRocks off?

What are you a phugging Cop? I can't talk about that on here.