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    Rigid Body Dynamics: The situation

    Yeah, you're right. I just love the part where you are figuring something out and get to cancel a term like that. Makes me all warm and fuzzy. T
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    Rigid Body Dynamics: The situation

    Would the Acceleration equation be: [a] = [a]CoG + [w] X ([w] X [r]) + [alpha] X [r] + 2 * [w] X [rdot] In place of: [a] = [a]CoG + [w] X ([w] X [r]) + [alpha]X[r] T
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    Wing tip deflection

    747 will go 17 ft before failing. T
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    Direction using radio

    Comcokid, That may be exactly what I need. Brilliant. Now I just need to get the robot zombies to come to life! T
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    Direction using radio

    That's kinda cool....and creepy.
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    Ranging using radio

    Alright, new thought. What about 2 or 3 transmitters transmitting unique carrier wave type of signals and a reciever that can determine what direction the individual signals are coming from. Once again a triangulation thing. That way each individual reciever needs to worry about itself instead...
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    Short ED, again

    You want the thinnest sheet closet to the skin. That's why you would taper the edges of the doubler if that was your method. The first fastener row takes the most load so you want it going through a thinner sheet. T
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    Direction using radio

    GPS would be ideal, but I am looking at doing this inside a building, like an airplane hangar. I'm not sure how well GPS works indoors, if at all. Accuracy would be ideally 1 to 2 feet, but I can be flexible about that. T
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    Direction using radio

    This is similar to my ranging using radio post. Since I see that that is not a feasable option what about an object that emits a signal that is picked up by a reciever. My goal is to know the direction to the signal and using 2 or more recievers to triangulate. I was thinking maybe the...
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    Ranging using radio

    Well, I was planning on slowing down the speed of light using a pair of sunglasses. Stupid speed of light, why does it have to be so fast? T Just in case you are wondering, I am kidding.
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    Ranging using radio

    Hello. I am fairly new at the whole circuits thing, I'm trying to get into using microcontrollers and such to control everyday applications and what not. I do have an engineering degree but my 3 credit class in engineering instrumentation didn't prepare me for everything I want to know. I was...
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    Shuttle Disaster

    I kind of felt that the report was almost of a religious nature and he's gonna start telling people that Dianetics is the way and so on so forth. I just don't see how if this is such a HUGE problem then it isn't treated in practice or textbooks. T
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    Ultimate stress in a pressurized fuselage

    I was thinking what Sparweb was thinking, too. You don't want too thick of a sheet. So if you have an 0.080 thick doubler requirement use one sheet of 0.032 and one of 0.050. It's a lot easier to make 2 doublers than to machine steps and tapers and fingers and so on. As a repair engineer I can't...
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    How did you get started

    What kind of stuff are you interested in doing? What do you have experience in? T
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    Ultimate stress in a pressurized fuselage

    No experience with Airbus. Lots with Boeing, MD, Sabreliner, Hawker, Bombardier, etc. If the doubler is too thick you can use more than one thickness and stagger the last fastener rows. Or taper the edges so the last fastener row is going through thinner sheet. Etc... T

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