Originally Posted by
dixi188
On BAC 1-11 production a very long time ago.......................After about 6 boxes were powered up we got a burning smell, so quickly turned the power off. On inspecting the radio rack by the aircraft door we realised the burning smell was from the first of many forest fires around Bournemouth that long hot summer. Panic over!
A good example of confirmation bias ! you see what you expect to see.
A wheeze that electronics engineers played was to smack two fingers into your other palm when one observed a fellow engineer connecting something to a live circuit or applying test probes etc. The sharp “crack” produced if you get it right sounds exactly like a short circuit or a component exploding, and your hapless colleague jumps a mile back away from the circuit, assuming he has just caused the problem. How we laughed..........