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My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

"Northwest Jet Suffers Similar Malfunctions to Air France Flight

[D]uring the brief but dramatic event, the Northwest Airbus A330's crew was left without reliable speed measurements for three minutes. In addition, the computer safeguards designed to keep the aircraft from flying dangerously too fast or too slow were also impaired. Like the Air France A330 jetliner, the Northwest plane entered a storm and quickly started showing erroneous and unreliable airspeed readings. ..."

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My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

My impression, with more reflection, is a no Boeing engineer would fail to report a potential problem because of fear job termination.

My Thoughts on Bernanke, Boeing and Citibank

"... the reason they kept coming up 7s and 11s on their previous commercial programs was that all were rather conservative forward moves from existing platforms."

I was coauthor with Pat Corey and ? of the 767 software certification policy document in 1980, a consultant to Boeing Commercial Aircraft Corporation..

I worked at Payne field in Everett, WA commuting by plane from Pullman, WA.

Corey was the project leader.

Corey and ? were experienced with the AWACS software.

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AWACS software apparently ran on a mainfram type computer.

The 767, if I recall correctly, had a large numbers of microcomputers [microntrollers] connected via an ARINC 429 bus.

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Cory was concerned about the software cost since AWACS software apparented costed-out to over $100 per line of code.

Number of lines of code in the 767 were very high and Corey was concerned that software costs migh cause Boeing financial trouble.

My view was that microcomputer/controller software can be very different from mainframe software in that micocontroller are frequently shorter and simpler to accomplish a required task.

Point is that my impression was that Boeing engineers are very conservative, careful, smart, SUPEREXPERIENCED so I am not suprised by delays in the 787.

Boeing and Sandia Labs labs made me job offers in 1980.

I went to Sandia because I thought the work would be more interesting. Right on.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

We're trying to recover $22,036 the US government stole from our pension-protected Sandia Federal Credit Union savings account using a bogus court order in our NSA/Nojeh visibility lawsuit.

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Looks like National Credit Union Administration is going to help us.

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Then we will buy some more CDs, not CDS.

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