Monday, March 18, 2024

Dynamic instability strikes again at Boeing

 The company told Duckworth the work to fix the anti-ice issue is complicated.

"Small changes made to the engine inlet can change the behavior of the air as it enters the engine, impacting engine performance. The solution selection process for the potential overheat issue will require a full understanding of safety and compliance impacts on all systems," the company said.



Having gone through all this, I know how a company can be destroyed by the above cheapness.  For the old company, it all started when they eliminated coffee and donuts at meetings.  Who can think?  From then on I just slept through meetings.  I would have loved an AI that stopped me from banging my head on the table.  How embarrassing!

Boeing started with the max being totally unstable.  They strapped huge coyote engines on a tiny plane, and were surprised when it wanted to shoot up like a rocket.  Then they tacked on a 'fly by wire' which should only be done for military planes.  Needless to say, they were cheap about it, and used the arrivecan people.

That was a dynamic instability, and all the latest engineering failures are due to this.  Now they have an unstable engine, so that a few drops of fluid explodes it.  In the old days, we used to kick the new design to see how stable it was.  Now, they use computer design, so that it is perfectly the cheapest to build, but unstable.

Naturally, we have to wait for an earthquake to see how this pans out for buildings.  I'm thinking, not well.

Checking for stability costs an extra 2 cents.  Not going to happen these days.  They also don't check for standard vibration, like what happens to a panel when you leave out all the bolts.

We can expect more of this from all sectors.  All engineering has left the stability building.

ps. I am now out of my thinking time for the day.  

pps. image time!




State of the Oceans - March 18, 2045

 Ocean currents from March 16.  Yeah, they are back on track, only two days behind.




There is nothing new on the video.  The turbulence in the Pacific is increasing, and the Gulf Stream might be back full strength.  We have to see if it wobbles back down again.

Today, we play the game of 'Find the Heating Event'.  


The Arctic is diving to new depths, which is good for my 'Long cold spring' forecast, but the tropics have gone wild.


The influencers can just use this one, but they may have to change graphs soon, when this goes down.  I don't see a reason for this huge tropics zoom-up, but sometimes I never do.


You can see on the anomaly plot, which nooa used to use, is that we have nothing.  The famous zone of El No-no is going to La Ninny.  They'll use this plot soon.  It's amazing that the 'most powerful elnono since 2016 plinked out like a cheap light bulb.  Good thing they never have to worry about logic.

ps.  just thought that the Pacific Belt may be collapsing on itself.  That means no plumes to spread heat energy, and it is in stagnant heating.  We'll know that soon, if the Arctic responds to the heat.


Toronto back to winter

 


We are getting very cold spring weather with sunny-day heating.  Lots of snow.


A Spring pattern is when we just get Pacific air over the mountains.  Looks like another Arctic spill is coming after this one.  


However, the Arctic looks like it is draining again, so this next incursion might be the last.  For Spring, we don't want to see Arctic black or Greenland white.  Then the 'Warmie News' can come back to us.