F-35 article

[Pags]

That's exactly what happened.

I assure you this is the only time this has ever happened.

At one point I had a USG CDRL manager tell me I had to have an OEM reissue monthly CDRLs from 5yrs ago to close a contract because we lost them (but we still had the annual summary one).

 

[jmcquate]

The schematics were on microfiche. So a misfile was the same as destruction, and program offices' had a bad habit of not returning them.

 

[Jim123]

It was filed in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."

They were on display in the local planning department located in Alpha Centauri.

 

[Pags]

The schematics were on microfiche. So a misfile was the same as destruction, and program offices' had a bad habit of not returning them.

Micro-what? I kid...kind of.

Nowadays they drop em off electronically and they end up filed as a file name that makes sense to some CDRL guy somewhere but not to an engineer. So if you search a share drive/SharePoint/etc for "thiokol o-ring schematic" you'll get nothing. But you would have found it if only you had know to search for 0123456NASA-JSC-CTRShopX: 1984-REVb-314156-AE/03.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Until recently, the C-17 sim did not have the modeling data to effectively replicate AAR well enough to where a pilot could maintain currency in that particular evolution. Boeing had the data it just chose not to share it with the AF and sim provider until the AF wrote a sizable check to "license" the data. Its well regarded in AF circles as legalized extortion.

I flew a B727 with a lower T/O max weight than most. We got it upgraded by writing Boeing a hefty check. No changes to the plane, just new paperwork.

 

[jmcquate]

Micro-what? I kid...kind of.

Nowadays they drop em off electronically and they end up filed as a file name that makes sense to some CDRL guy somewhere but not to an engineer. So if you search a share drive/SharePoint/etc for "thiokol o-ring schematic" you'll get nothing. But you would have found it if only you had know to search for 0123456NASA-JSC-CTRShopX: 1984-REVb-314156-AE/03.

Taxonomies matter. If you can't query information, you don't have it.

 

[Pags]

Taxonomies matter. If you can't query information, you don't have it.

Someone built a file structure somewhere that makes sense to them. The key is to find that person and then they'll say, "the o-ring schematic? It's right here..."

 

[MIDNJAC]

haha I love that the term CDRL has been used on AW. Welcome to my hell