"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Popularity is now your measure of goodness? That sure isn't
engineering. I've seen a steady stream of popular and useless techs
and engineers.

No. Engineering is making what you want from what you've got. It takes a
special breed of cat to do that time after time after time successfully.



Rutan is good--great--at highly experimental, bleeding edge, one-off
designs. He sucks at designing anything even partway extending
mainstream, usable designs. Just what the hell has ever happened
later in the mainstream with his pioneering work? Not much.

Like most brilliant folks, having done it once proved the point. It
remains for the plodders to replicate it for the mass market. I love R&D;
I detest production. I only do it because that puts the beans on the
table. He found another way to get the beans.



Space I? Damn near had disasters on one or two of the flights as I
recall. And his tilting tail "innovation" is a dead end: will never
work for orbital.

And your credentials for making this statement are? Your degree in
aeroengineering is from where?


He sucks at attitude. His constant dissing of anything from NASA
disrespects the genuine accomplishments of many thousands of
engineers, techs, etc.

Ever work for NASA, sonny? NASA has a lot of interpretations of their
acronym, not a lot of them positive. I got my chops for my first five
years out of school working for them under contract. Apollo 13 and the
meter-foot Mars plow isn't but the tip of the iceberg; it is all you have
been allowed to see.


He also sucks at being careful, killing workers with his casual
treatment of very dangerous fuels.

You miserable *******. You miserable lousy *******. It was just a usenet
discussion up until now. I hope your mother has recovered from the
disease she got when the soldiers invaded your country.


I haven't designed anything that flies because guess what, Jimbo, I
don't do aeronautics. I do water resources, and in that field, I've
done a number of pioneering innovations that are still being used.
And I can damn well tell blowhard talkers from doers.

Me too. I think we all know who the blowhard is in this discussion.
Unless you'd care to lead us to the place where your "pioneering
innovations" have been discussed in "****house News".

Jim
Jim I think that you have removed any possibility of ambigous
interpretations of your point of view. But should you find it necessary,
you could always resort to stronger language.
I also have a problem with people setting on the sidelines, and someone not
involved in design, construction and testing of aviation related systems is
in my mind just setting on the sidelines, being a "Critic Observer". We
have a saying of either "Lead, Follow, or get the hell out of the Way".
"Critic Observers" are not welcome or given much attention.
Yeah. R&D is much more fun than the grinding out involved in production.
In the experimental helicopter field I've seen some prettey crude examples.
However, they weren't just setting around criticizing someone else's work.
They cut the wood, metal, modified the auto engine and became a lot smarter
as a result of their effort. Those people, regardless of the quality of
their product, are creating and are a positive force.

Stu Fields