At 10:50 AM Thursday 6/8/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As part of my work, I do some occasional environmental scanning of the gov't
"business opportunities". I don't usually even read all the NASA ones
(although truth be told I do find them tempting to check out and
have done so on
occasion), but as I was scrolling, the following caught my eye.
NASA
Langley Research Center
Office of Procurement
A--NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION ASSESSMENT TEAM MEMBER
Synopsis
_http://www.fbo.gov/spg/NASA/LaRC/OPDC20220/NNL06NDEATM/listing.html_
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/NASA/LaRC/OPDC20220/NNL06NDEATM/listing.html)
It seemed clearer after scrolling back up one entry to read the following,
but I still found it mildly amusing for some obscure reason
NASA
Langley Research Center
Office of Procurement
A--DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS (ASTM) DOCUMENT
STANDARDS FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE) OF AEROSPACE COMPOSITES
Synopsis
_http://www.fbo.gov/spg/NASA/LaRC/OPDC20220/NNL06ASTM/listing.html_
(https://owa.mse1.mailstreet.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.fbo.gov/spg/NASA/L
aRC/OPDC20220/NNL06ASTM/listing.html)
Dee
Back in my days as an Air Force test engineer, another program was
headed by a captain at the other end of the same building. He
started off with 5 examples of a new model UAV ("unmanned aerial
vehicle": an ancestor of the Predator they're using in the Middle
East today) and in a particularly hard couple of weeks had lost three
of them in test flights (two of them to the same problem with the
parachutes used for recovery, one to a completely different one: a
"+" sign in the flight control software which should have been a "-"
sign). About that time, a copy of a revised tech manual appeared in
my in-box, a thin volume with a title something about
"Non-Destructive Testing Methods," so I took it and placed it on that
captain's desk when he was out of his office, with a note suggesting
he might find it useful in his project. When he got back he got a
big laugh out of it . . .
-- Ronn! :P
Professional Smart-Aleck Even Then. Do Not Attempt Because I Have
Years More Experience.
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