There is a crack in every thing God has made. --Emerson, "Compensation"
So fix it. --Phil Holman
A Few Minor Cracks
There once was a hole-filling man named Phil Hol-man, Who among Boeing's engineers was not a
sole-man: He managed a mechanical mob in Seattle (Who wanted our planes not to rattle) [1] And made
cracks only as a rather droll roll-man. [2]
[1]"I'm an Engineering manager at the Boeing Company and get to see the results of fatigue damage
due mostly to extreme in-service operation cycles or maintenance-related abuse. I manage a group
of 30 or so Engineers and Technical staff, some of whom are very skilled in structural
substantiation, fatigue analysis and damage tolerance." --Phil Holman
(With shame, I remark that a "sole-man" flits upon his feet all alone, while a bicyclist-manager
sits upon his seat to pedal and works with a group.)
[2]
Re: Resistance Trainer: Am I wrecking my frame???
(Carl Fogel) said:. . . I'm a little startled that the engineers who understand such things are so
undecided. . . . it worries me a bit when something as apparently simple as this
leads Phil Holman to start talking about riding a bicycle straight down the street
while tilting it 30 degrees off the vertical. He's a Boeing engineer, so what's
next, 747's flying in a straight line with one wing dipped 30 degrees?Surely a mob of mechanical engineers can come up with a consensus on this and then move on to
argue about all sorts of practical side-effects and tangential considerations and how likely a
good frame is to break, free or clamped.After all, what are we paying them for?
By the way, you're behind with your payments. . . .
Phil Holman
(Even more shameful, "roll-man" applies to bicycles at full-tilt, bicycles a-tilt on rollers, and
barrel-rolling Boeings.)
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