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On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them anyway.

Cute. I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.

I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

What I remembered was fabulous bbq ribs on some floating restaurant on
Lake Champlain. Ribs? In Vermont?



--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

 

[Phil Hobbs]

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them anyway.

Cute. I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.


I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

My favourite technique for that sort of thing is the Helmholtz
resonance, which (to leading order) depends only on the air volume in
the tank, and not on its shape.

What I remembered was fabulous bbq ribs on some floating restaurant on
Lake Champlain. Ribs? In Vermont?

They have to compensate for the weather somehow.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

 

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On Sun, 8 May 2022 18:49:36 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them anyway.

Cute. I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.


I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

My favourite technique for that sort of thing is the Helmholtz
resonance, which (to leading order) depends only on the air volume in
the tank, and not on its shape.

We had two capacitive level probes and two inclinometers.

What I remembered was fabulous bbq ribs on some floating restaurant on
Lake Champlain. Ribs? In Vermont?

They have to compensate for the weather somehow.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--

Anybody can count to one.

- Robert Widlar

 

[rbowman]

On 05/08/2022 03:35 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them anyway.

Cute. I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.


I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

Excellent decision! That was the longest winter of my life and since I
grew up down around Troy NY, that\'s saying something.

What I remembered was fabulous bbq ribs on some floating restaurant on
Lake Champlain. Ribs? In Vermont?

Burlington is, um, different. Part of it is NYC escapees like Bernie
Sanders. UVM leavens the mixture, and IBM had a chip plant at Essex
Junction that they sold to GlobalFoundries when they went out of the fab
business.

I have to say UVM has a hell of a winter carnival. They should; they
have enough raw material to build a full size snow sculpture of the
World Trade Center.

I really can\'t judge how it is to work there under normal conditions.
The DISCO thing brought clearances to a screeching halt. They weren\'t
letting people go but there was little to do. It would have been
interesting since the test kits were to be programmed in FORTH for
extensibility. I did get to go to the FORTH conference in Rochester NY.

 

[rbowman]

On 05/08/2022 05:31 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Sun, 8 May 2022 18:49:36 -0400, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them anyway.

Cute. I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.


I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

My favourite technique for that sort of thing is the Helmholtz
resonance, which (to leading order) depends only on the air volume in
the tank, and not on its shape.

We had two capacitive level probes and two inclinometers.

Measuring the fuel is only half the fun. Moving fuel to maintain the CG
within the envelope is the other half. One person at Simmonds was either
a hero or a pariah depending. Rather late in the project she pointed out
that in some configurations of the B-1 you couldn\'t pump enough fuel to
maintain the CG.

Then you have something like the AH-64. There are a number of auxiliary
tank configurations both internal and external to worry about and the
configuration determines how many Hellfire and/or 70 mm rockets you can
carry as well as how much 30mm ammo. Missiles, rockets, and ammo may be
expended at odd intervals. It gets more complex than bad math on the
Gimli glider.

As an aside, many military aircraft can\'t be flown by an unaided human.
Hopefully commercial aircraft aren\'t as \'advanced\'. At least in the
Gimli generation a good pilot could set it down without engines or
instrumentation although I\'m curious about the control surface
actuators. At least the hydraulics must not depend on both engines running.

 

[Phil Hobbs]

rbowman wrote:

On 05/08/2022 03:35 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:08 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 11:45 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2022 10:37:17 -0600, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 05/08/2022 02:48 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2022 17:23, rbowman wrote:
On 05/07/2022 02:12 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/05/2022 17:31, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 10:46:00 +0100, Martin Brown
\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:


High end car theft gangs in Belgium did a pretty good job with
lining a
largish HVG with supermarket grade aluminium foil and if
memory serves
lead flashing seals on the opening joints. Good enough Faraday
cage to
steal high end cars with notional satellite tracking on them
anyway.

Cute.  I assume that HVG is some kind of lorry.

Its a typo!
For HGV = heavy goods vehicle 44T tractor trailer combo.
US  = big rig (but yours are max 64T?)

80,000 pounds, to avoid the ton ambiguity. Some states will license
105,000 for intrastate traffic.

It is only really a problem in the US where short tons are used to
defraud the buyer of 10% of what they paid for. An Imperial or
British
ton and a metric Ton are close enough for most practical purposes.

US short measure sharp practice gets you problems like the Gimli
glider.


A ton is defined as 20 hundredweights but a British hundredweight
is 112
pounds for some obscure reason going back to stones, another strange
unit of measurement. Why there are 8 stones in a hundredweight also
escapes me. Actually Canada uses short tons.

They did use the imperial gallon so I always thought I was getting a
bargain when buying gasoline in Canada. After going to the liter
and the
loonie (Canadian dollar) falling to .75 USD, I gave up trying to
figure
out how badly I was getting screwed. The US uses the Queen Anne\'s
gallon
and wasn\'t about to adopt the Imperial system in 1826. We also
retained
the Winchester bushel. I can\'t find a citation but it wouldn\'t
surprise
me if a hundredweight was 100 pounds before 1826 too.

Anyway the Gimli Glider was the end result of many more problems
than a
simple conversion. It wasn\'t a high point for Air Canada. Boeing
certainly didn\'t help. I once worked for a firm that did fuel
measurement and management systems. We didn\'t assume the engines would
be running to keep the system powered up. Admittedly the systems
primarily went into military aircraft where a little wear and tear is
expected, but still...



This is one of my designs, or at least the hardware part is:

http://www.highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P330DS.shtml

Fuel volume measurement is tricky with a funny-shaped tank in a
tiltable vehicle.

Did you work for Simmonds?




Yes, briefly. That was my first and last brush with DoD projects. It
didn\'t help that it was in the middle of the walker debacle and DISCO
put everything on hold as far as clearances went. I\'d been hired to work
on the test kit software but when there\'s nothing to test...

The upside was I had plenty of spare time to go down to Middlebury and
learn how to fly. The FBO was run by an ag pilot whose family had
originally built the strip for their spraying operation. It was
interesting to say the least. He had a couple of elderly Larks, one of
which added pumping up the brakes to the usual final approach protocol.

I was moonlighting for another employee who had a side project going. He
contacted me almost a year later about some tax paperwork. I asked if
he\'d written any code yet. The answer was no, they were still haggling
over the design document. I can fully understand why projects like the
F-35 have problems.

I\'d taken a contract at GE Ft. Wayne to develop a copier power supply
testing system and it was very refreshing to actually make progress.


I did a tank gauging system for Simmonds, for LNG tanks on a giant
barge, when I was with someone else. I did later interview with them,
but I didn\'t think I\'d like Vermont.

Excellent decision! That was the longest winter of my life and since I
grew up down around Troy NY, that\'s saying something.

What I remembered was fabulous bbq ribs on some floating restaurant on
Lake Champlain. Ribs? In Vermont?


Burlington is, um, different. Part of it is NYC escapees like Bernie
Sanders. UVM leavens the mixture, and IBM had a chip plant at Essex
Junction that they sold to GlobalFoundries when they went out of the fab
business.

If only. IBM had to _pay_ GF $1.5B to haul their fabs away.

I did a bunch of work with the Fishkill and Burlington folks BITD.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

 

[rbowman]

On 05/08/2022 08:24 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
> If only. IBM had to _pay_ GF $1.5B to haul their fabs away.

I didn\'t get that part of the story. A high school/college friend spent
his career in Essex Junction and retired prior too the sale. He
mentioned IBM was out but didn\'t go into details.

https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/06/21/ibm-globalfoundries-suing-over-east-fishkill-deal/7768785002/

It sounds like it\'s getting chewy.


My cousin worked there in Burlington in the \'70s. There was a space
problem so her group was temporarily located in a former supermarket.
They would get the random person wandering in looking for pork chops.
True to the I\'ve Been Moved philosophy she wound up in Tucson. At least
it doesn\'t snow there very often if you stay out of the mountains.

> I did a bunch of work with the Fishkill and Burlington folks BITD.

My friend worked at Fishkill on sort of a work/study program. As might
be expected RPI had close ties with IBM. Between IBM and the little
companies they spun off to avoid monopoly scrutiny it helped to offset
the manufacturing fleeing NYS.