Airbus rudder AD

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ...
Sometimes the simple tests really are the best. Visual inspection by human eyes is still used for a lot of things
even though it is well known to have lots of problems (variability among humans being one of the biggest).

Matt

But once someone knows what they are looking for it is very hard to beat...

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:07:28 GMT, "Blueskies"
wrote:


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ...
Sometimes the simple tests really are the best. Visual inspection by human eyes is still used for a lot of things
even though it is well known to have lots of problems (variability among humans being one of the biggest).

Matt

But once someone knows what they are looking for it is very hard to beat...

Way back in my aerospace days, the guy at the next desk had a casting
he used as an ashtray. (I said this was way back.) The casting had a
tiny crack, and right across the middle of the crack was the QC
inspector's stamp.

Don

"Don Tuite" wrote in message ...
Way back in my aerospace days, the guy at the next desk had a casting
he used as an ashtray. (I said this was way back.) The casting had a
tiny crack, and right across the middle of the crack was the QC
inspector's stamp.

Don

Which begs the question...were they certifying the crack or were they certifying the part?

Way back in my aerospace days, the guy at the next desk had a casting
he used as an ashtray. (I said this was way back.)

Drifting OT to talk about the days of smoking in the workplace

When I worked as a computer operator not long ago, the master console
keyboards were the same ones used by many generations of operators before
me. They were all stained yellow from the cigarette smoke. My supervisor
(who was working there back then) was talking about the 'good ole days' when
they had an ashtray next to every keyboard.