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  1. JohnRBaker

    Air Force Diverts Missile Funds To Modify Qatari 747... Money is being taken from Sentinel ICBM program, which is over budget.

    Yes, I worked 35 years for a company that developed and sold software, and we had to constantly be aware of the tendency to try to get that last little enhancement into the next version of the software, and I worked in the that part of the company that had to decide what we were spending our...
  2. JohnRBaker

    Already Proven Technology Meets Milestone

    I don't see what the issue is here? This reads like a standard press release, announcing that some mechanical device, which appears to be the first that was put into commercial use, has reached a milestone, which would seem to imply that similar systems haven't previously achieved this length...
  3. JohnRBaker

    Air Force Diverts Missile Funds To Modify Qatari 747... Money is being taken from Sentinel ICBM program, which is over budget.

    We'll check back in "1 to 2 years" and see where they are. If the program that's replacing the current Air Force One aircraft(s) is anything to go by, they'll be lucky if it ever carries a sitting president. And if they are able to get it up to spec in "1 to 2 years", what does that say about...
  4. JohnRBaker

    Standard Practice for Drafting in NX

    Yes, I still watch this forum, even when I'm on vacation like I am at the moment ;) And you've got it about right. What Toost described is what we called the 'Master Model' concept where you only had to create the geometric model of your item once. After that you referenced that original...
  5. JohnRBaker

    Through Curves command

    Also, you shouldn't post the same question twice.
  6. JohnRBaker

    Truetype Fonts

    Sounds about right.
  7. JohnRBaker

    Toronto place crash

    In the video, it looks like the right landing gear collapses, which leads to the wing hitting the ground.
  8. JohnRBaker

    Last Darwin Award for 2024

    Yes, I saw that and was tempted to post it in the either the Crazy People thread or the Jokes thread.
  9. JohnRBaker

    Twin screw extruder modelling

    Those look like the screws out of a Baker Perkins MP Mixer.
  10. JohnRBaker

    Thread Failure in Aluminum Casting

    I agree, a threaded insert would seem to be the best way to go.
  11. JohnRBaker

    Voyager I is trying phone home once again...

    It appears that Voyager I is not as dead as some had assumed that it was: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-voyager-1-spacecraft Note that the old Voyager I thread has been cloased.
  12. JohnRBaker

    NPT vs NPSM thread for conduit nut

    I've never asked myself that question, but looking back on the times where I've had to install cable glands using those very narrow castellated conduit lock-nuts, I'm not sure that I could've noticed a difference if there was any. In a quick look at vendors for conduit lock-huts (using Google)...
  13. JohnRBaker

    Australian Bridge

    This reminds of what happened to the Zilwakee Bridge over the Saginaw River in Zilwakee, Michigan back in the early 80's. They were building this high-rise, multi-lane bridge to carry I-75 over the river bypassing a drawbridge, and one of the sections of bridge tipped out of alignment, and what...
  14. JohnRBaker

    Ferry Dock Collapse

    Given it was a special weekend, I'm surprised that none of the people there were shooting videos at the time, or if they were, none seems to have made it to the web. You'd think in something like this, what with everyone having a smartphone and people's penchant to video everything these days...
  15. JohnRBaker

    Boeing again pt2.

    Do they have it or not... Boeing And Machinists Workers Union Reaches Tentative Deal To End Strike The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said early Saturday that it plans to hold a ratification vote on Wednesday...
  16. JohnRBaker

    Milton Crane Collapses

    Since the covering of the rook was canvas I suspect that the statement that it could withstand 115 mph wind was respect to the structural members holding up the roofing material, as it looks like it did pretty well. In fact, when I read that the roof itself was made of canvas I figured that it...
  17. JohnRBaker

    Boeing again

    Oops, yes I always get a kick out of the hair styles in that film. Also, it wasn't very PC with poor "Janette" being the person who was working hard, but not being able to keep up with the new tech. John R. Baker, P.E. (ret) Irvine, CA Siemens PLM: The secret of life is not finding someone to...
  18. JohnRBaker

    Boeing again

    This is what CAD/CAM looked like when I first started using it, back in 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9F5zIKuLBw John R. Baker, P.E. (ret) Irvine, CA Siemens PLM: The secret of life is not finding someone to live with It's finding someone you can't live without
  19. JohnRBaker

    Boeing again

    A bit of trivia. After Boeing decided that they couldn't develop a new system, they sold off that group to another company which our company eventually acquired while we were part of EDS. While we didn't really care much about the software package itself that they had been working on, it...
  20. JohnRBaker

    Boeing again

    McDonnell Douglas went through that same phase only in their case they went out and bought a company which had already developed a CAD/CAM system and while there was a lot of initial resistance on the part of the people that developed MDC's internal software, the handwriting was on the wall as...

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