So U want 2 B a rocket scientist

Having met many former aerospace engineers, we have uncovered the standard aerospace career path 4 U.

Aerospace -> unemployment -> Web 1.0 startup -> unemployment -> special effects -> poverty -> computer games -> more poverty -> Web 2.0 startup

Now the news.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-t...d=sec-politics

News flash: someone in the media covered someone other than Ubama & Hill. The answer is McCain would freeze NASA's budget. Ubama would cut it and subsidize preschool entitlements with the money. A lot of people went to preschool and now hope to one day afford a 1 bedroom apartment. Best entitlement ever.

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/mo...&cat=undefined
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=28234
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25594
http://www.onorbit.com/node/273
http://twitter.com/LRO_NASA

Next, we have more concept studies, stylish moon rovers, dot com/NASA relationships, astronauts who tried to climb Mt. Everest, & the next great NASA portal: twitter. Aerospace is a lot easier when U don't actually have to do aerospace. Should have stuck with dot com relationships instead of flying.

Strutless IMU seemed 2 work with the low RPM. Need a few more hours in the wind 2 B sure.

Actually fighting 2 kinds of vibration: high frequency vibration from the tail rotor & low frequency vibration from the mane rotor. Strutless IMU should now have low frequency problems.

Had yet another engine loss in autopilot. Definitely a software crash in the ARM this time. Got major tail wagging long before engine cutoff & no flight recording was written. The tail slowly started losing it, then suddenly entered a spin. Then the engine cut off.

Tail wag would have increased if the ARM crashed, but rate damping would have continued. PWM is programmed to shut down if the ARM crashes, so rate damping would have stopped next & allowed the spin. A partial flight recording would have been written if the ARM was still alive.