Notar Fan
I havn't a clue who Zalt is anymore than I KNOW who you are. I have better things to do, no matter what my suspicions. Everything I write is accountable - even when wrong. No secret names.
However it is clear that you appear to be well versed in the goings on in Mesa and extremely defensive of them, a real blinker job. That bit about denying the MDHI and PAS connection is perhaps typical. I think we all knew what he meant.
All this tends to suggest we have met on more than one occasion in the UK and US.
As for the 'transfer of text' to PAN, it would never have happened if the text had not been written in the first place. The message, if any, is that conducting ourselves with a measure of professionalism is always the better way. Accountability does tend to still my real feelings!!
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Very early I know, but [as I said] on UK launch at Blackbushe nine years ago the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company stated ‘Blades – On condition composites’ ‘Hub on-condition, bearingless composites.’
No specific mention of pins at that stage, it was a bit early and McD were not really into detail at the best of times. They just shouted down anyone that asked ‘silly’ technical questions - a lot!
The UK fleet was ordered at Farnborough in 1996 and it was 1999 that the FAA required some previously unlifed items to have a life added to them.
Of course all this was prior to MDHI taking over the project anyway so I see little reason for them to be ‘personally’ defensive of history. It is a bit like the MD600 and SAS everyone fully accepted the new owners position and they put the problem right in the same way as they improved the build quality of the 500 series. OK so they are short on resources, but that is a direct reflection of the sheer number of largely inherited problems they face.
Last edited by PANews; 23rd June 2003 at 03:28.