Vibration Monitor (Hyde, Wanttaja?)

Pete Schaefer wrote:
So, what things on the airplane are you guys going to replace with
self-powered blue tooth devices?

I'm typing out loud here...

When I suggested bluetooth the other day, what I had in mind was a kit
that you would temporarily hang on an airplane for specific tests, much
like we hang all the orange on Navy aircraft for flight tests. Much more
accurate pitot-static, vib sensors, postion sensors, data loggers, etc.
You could, for example, have a kit for flight testing an RV-8. Pop it
on, do the tests, and remove it. Or it could be used for "external
stores" such as a camera.

Afterward, I contemplated replacing all signal wires with wireless. So
any wire not carrying power could be replaced. This might be especially
useful for a refit, where access is far more difficult than during
initial construction.

Other harebrained ideas...two planes in semi-close formation could
network via bluetooth. Why? Could be low prob. of intercept comms on a
private channel, sharing of nav data, text messaging, ipod music files.

There's an ongoing thread on rec.aviation.soaring on bluetooth and
cellphones aboard planes.

nafod40 wrote:
Pete Schaefer wrote:

So, what things on the airplane are you guys going to replace with
self-powered blue tooth devices?


I'm typing out loud here...

When I suggested bluetooth the other day, what I had in mind was a kit
that you would temporarily hang on an airplane for specific tests, much
like we hang all the orange on Navy aircraft for flight tests. Much more
accurate pitot-static, vib sensors, postion sensors, data loggers, etc.
You could, for example, have a kit for flight testing an RV-8. Pop it
on, do the tests, and remove it. Or it could be used for "external
stores" such as a camera.

Afterward, I contemplated replacing all signal wires with wireless. So
any wire not carrying power could be replaced. This might be especially
useful for a refit, where access is far more difficult than during
initial construction.

Other harebrained ideas...two planes in semi-close formation could
network via bluetooth. Why? Could be low prob. of intercept comms on a
private channel, sharing of nav data, text messaging, ipod music files.

There's an ongoing thread on rec.aviation.soaring on bluetooth and
cellphones aboard planes.

Bluetooth: a solution in search of a problem

William W. Plummer wrote:
Bluetooth: a solution in search of a problem

So was the internet for a while.

I'm thinking of just wireless in general, of which bluetooth is an
implementation (with a really catchy name.)

nafod40 wrote:

William W. Plummer wrote:

Bluetooth: a solution in search of a problem


So was the internet for a while.

Not at all. TCP, the original name for "TCP/IP" that we know today,
was designed to meet certain military needs but the bigger issue of how
to communicate through widely-disparate networks was _THE_ problem.
You can look up the IEEE Trans. on Communications paper by Kahn and
Cerf. 1974 as I recall.

William W. Plummer wrote:
nafod40 wrote:

William W. Plummer wrote:

Bluetooth: a solution in search of a problem

So was the internet for a while.

Not at all. TCP, the original name for "TCP/IP" that we know today,
was designed to meet certain military needs but the bigger issue of how
to communicate through widely-disparate networks was _THE_ problem. You
can look up the IEEE Trans. on Communications paper by Kahn and Cerf.
1974 as I recall.

Yea, I guess I meant the Internet as in meaning the http protocol and
WWW, which took what was a nifty way of hooking computers together and
turned it into an incredible way to hook people together. In short, the
"killer app".

Bluetooth is still waiting for the killer app. I think as ubiquitous
computing continues to grow (everything will have computers
embedded...everything) the ability to form networks on the fly will be
needed. But I digress from airplanes...