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HAPPY NATIONAL ENGINEER’S WEEK, EVERYBODY!!

Enjoy all the parties and parades, but don’t forget to set aside some quiet time with your children to nurture them in an appreciation of engineering. Kipling’s poem “The Sons Of Martha” makes excellent bedtime reading.
 
Wait, am I supposed to go the whole week without getting laid?


;)
 
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I started work at Boeing in March, 1981. This cartoon was on the toolbox of one of the machinists there....
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Forty years later...some of my memorabilia.

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Ron Wanttaja
 
In all seriousness, sometimes I'll be upstairs in the bunk during pretty serious turbulence, and I'll think about the GE-90s out there on the pylons getting bounced around like crazy. Thank you engineers!
 
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I started work at Boeing in March, 1981. This cartoon was on the toolbox of one of the machinists there....
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Forty years later...some of my memorabilia.

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Ron Wanttaja
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Nice memorabilia!

Before I forget it all, I'll write down the programs/platforms I designed and delivered into:

Hubble
STS
Geoeye
Worldview
JPSS
USA 224
USA 245
F15
F22
F/A18
F35
Apache Arrowhead
Hellfire
Patriot
Gorgon Stare
Argus IS
THAAD
Iron Dome
Davids Sling
GBR
PANSTARRS
LSST
AN/SPY

Probably more I forgot.

When you're working your're always concentrating on the task at hand, it's fun to look back over a career and see what you did and the lives that may have been touched by your work.
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Bill said:
Nice memorabilia!

Before I forget it all, I'll write down the programs/platforms I designed and delivered into:

Hubble
STS
Geoeye
Worldview
JPSS
USA 224
USA 245
F15
F22
F/A18
F35
Apache Arrowhead
Hellfire
Patriot
Gorgon Stare
Argus IS
THAAD
Iron Dome
Davids Sling
GBR
PANSTARRS
LSST
AN/SPY

Probably more I forgot.

When you're working your're always concentrating on the task at hand, it's fun to look back over a career and see what you did and the lives that may have been touched by your work.
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Just for grits and shins, I marked the ones we have in common. (I suspect there are some others.)
 
Half Fast said:
Just for grits and shins, I marked the ones we have in common. (I suspect there are some others.)
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Probably! I at one time or another worked with all the T1 guys and a good number of subtier contractors.
 
Bill said:
Nice memorabilia!

Before I forget it all, I'll write down the programs/platforms I designed and delivered into:
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Been involved in eighteen satellites put into orbit, in one aspect or another. Three I was an operator, nine where I was a lead engineer in a product team, including seven where I was the engineering lead for the whole shebang. Space Station was one, three Defense Support Program satellites, T-1/BATSAT, the rest all black. Last one, the team got a national award, and I was one of the folks that went to accept it.
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Much of my career was involved in studies; looking at the feasibility of various projects. On three programs, I was involved from from the first basic feasibility studies right up to the production of the spacecraft. On one, I led the original feasibility study and was continuously involved until I was test conductor for the on-orbit deployment.

Ron Wanttaja
 
but all 12 were pilots
 
I navigated my entire career as a design engineer, successfully avoiding any kind of management roles. With an aero degree my first job was a Navy civil service ME job designing support equipment for F-18, A-4, AV-8, etc. Then VH-60 mission equipment at Sikorsky, and a bit of Shuttle SRB work Sikorsky was subbing. Then got out of the military thing and into automation, assembly machinery for floppy disks and lots of other random stuff, got bored with automation and into consumer product and automotive aftermarket stuff for a few years, finally back into automation until retiring last year.

It's not a job but a disorder, I'm just on the engineering spectrum.

 
Half Fast said:
HAPPY NATIONAL ENGINEER’S WEEK, EVERYBODY!!

Enjoy all the parties and parades, but don’t forget to set aside some quiet time with your children to nurture them in an appreciation of engineering. Kipling’s poem “The Sons Of Martha” makes excellent bedtime reading.
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I don't know if it's good bedtime reading for kids, but I'll give you that it's probably better than "Gunga Din".
 
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