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  1. sawinredneck

    Sad, obvious and true.

    I think that is part of it, the other factors, as I see it. You are required a lot more training to become a piolt and about any idiot can get a DL. Take everybody out of a car and put them in a plane for the daily comute, I think the statistics would tip the other way. For the record, I will...
  2. sawinredneck

    Sad, obvious and true.

    Yeah, CATIA was going to "fix all of that":lol: They basically pick a "fixed point" in thin air, and reference the entire plane off of that point. It had just gotten started when I was leaving the machine shops. It was STUPID!!! You have a six by four inch part that is referenced off a point six...
  3. sawinredneck

    Sad, obvious and true.

    I am saying I made the parts the way they were engineered and designed. I would have done some things differently. Then with the advent of CATIA all the tollerances on the plane where to be within +/-.030" (physicly impossible with alum. and the size of these planes). I know many sheetmetal...
  4. sawinredneck

    Sad, obvious and true.

    I've built too many parts for airplanes. I know too many people that build airplanes. I have heard too many stories about how these ariplanes are put together. You are hard pressed to get me to go up in "a perfectly good airplane", much less get me to drop out of one!
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