Hi Jim,
I've worked on aircraft for over 30 years and know what engineers can
do :-) There are many airworthiness directives issued after the
engineers have finished their work. I'd better not get something
started, as I really do appreciate the work of the engineers. More
field experience would help some of them.
Ron VE8RT
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 22:47 -0400, Jim Campbell wrote:
> Reminds me of a story that I heard years ago while on an assignment in
> England.
>
> Seems that the Rolls Royce company didn't have an automatic transmission
> in their cars. Since automatic transmissions were the up-and-coming
> thing they decided that they needed one to offer in the Roolls Royce.
> Rather than design one from scratch they surveyed the field and decided
> that the best of breed was one made by General Motors. They entered into
> an agreement with GM to use theirs.
>
> They took a GM automatic transmission into their shop and tore it down
> completely. They wanted any transmission that was going into a Rolls
> Royce to be top quality, inside and out. Everything passed muster
> except for one part. It had a rough surface. That just wouldn't do so
> they machined the surface to a Rolls Royce standard. The trouble was
> that when the transmission was assembled it wouldn't work. They
> contacted GM and found out that the surface in question had to be rough
> or the transmission wouldn't work.
>
> Best to trust the judgment of the design engineers.
>
> 72,
>
> Jim - W4BQP
> K2 #2268
>
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