More Sportplanes Hype

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Ernest Christley wrote:



No the pencil pushers (at least the ones that know what they're doing)
will get their pencils from the supply closet of the other company. The
one that pays them. Because they sure as hell won't be working for
Smitty Airplane works, where pencil pushers work in the heat on an eBay
desk and buy their own paper 8*)

Gotta give it to you, though. That was a funny rant. Thanks.

Glad you like my humor. Here's an enco

No, the pompous arrogant airhead pencil pushers will work for the other
company. You know the ones. The pseudo-engineers who make drawings of
parts that can't be made, because they've never gotten their hands dirty
actually making things.

Like the drawing I got two days ago. A post that stands up from the
floor of a pocket. The edge of the post is 0.020 away from the wall of
the pocket. Sure. Just go to the tool store and tell them you need to
pick up a 0.020 diameter end mill with 1/4 inch flutes.

The ones who want to build airplanes, the really brilliant, dedicated,
hard-working ones who'd rather make a contribution than suck latte, will
work at Smitty. The kinds of people who built the Spirit of St. Louis.
The kinds of people who built Liberty Ships in three days. They aren't
extinct, are they?

Have you ever heard of Bridgeport? The best damn milling machines in the
world at any price? A machine shop without Bridgeport mills was a
laughingstock. Well, Bridgeport is gone. Bankrupt. Why? Because someone
with vision came along and said, there's no goddamn reason in the world
that a single-tool, 2-axis CNC with clumsy programming should cost forty
thousand dollars. And they started making machining centers - that is, a
machine that is about fifty times as automated and sophisticated as a
Bridgeport EZ-trak, and selling them for thirty thousand.

Paradigm shift. You might have to wait a while to see it, but when it
happens, it might as well have been instantaneous.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. (insert emoticon of your choice
here)