Giant Cargo Drones

Roger Roger said:
Oh I'm sure they'll replace some of the knuckleheads painting sealant in tanks and doing daily checks. But we're a looooong way from them chasing down and fixing a weird intermittent fault buried in a wire bundle. And then you gotta maintain the robots that maintain the airplanes...
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Astromechs are coming.

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Soku39 said:
Their dextirity is coming along quite well, and half the fixes are just replacing boxes.
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Fixes are probably 25% at most of what aircraft maintenance is made up of, most of it is inspections (take it apart, look at it, 90% of the time nothing is wrong, put it back together). I doubt pilots or mechanics are going anywhere in corporate aviation, even the newest airplanes I've worked on (G650, Global 6000) absolutely can't be trusted to troubleshoot themselves.
 
Roger Roger said:
I see you work on new equipment.
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I've spent most of my career working on aircraft that are as old, or older than me, these newfangled contraptions flummox me sometimes. That 90% is how I see it these days. I recently spent a week working on a really nice G-II, I think it's got one more scheduled flight before it retires to the boneyard.
 
Derg said:
Yup! And then the LCC's and then eventually the legacies.

The sad thing is that UPS dropped an Airbus in Birmingham a few years ago and the general public largely didn't give a poop and I'm sure there were some passive-aggressive complains written on Amazon about their shipment being delayed.
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"Ah ordurd mah extra large star spangled rubber fist and ah expected it to be delivured in two days! Sad! No stars"

-Trumpfan69
 
Soku39 said:
As all jobs dissappear this an ode to thinking out of the box. We might not need as many doctors to do all the thinking, but we're sure gonna need more nurses and boomers age out. Essentially this is Mike Rowes whole thing and he's on the money for a lot it.
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This is exactly one of the reasons I lean to the left.

If our population wasn't growing WHILE jobs continue to be automated and/or shipped overseas I'd be more inclined to say "well, we will just have to be more creative."

Down the road I see it going one of two ways. 1) People fall on hard times and have smaller families to cope. 2) Some sort of social safety net/universal income.

At least those are the two successful outcomes.

Also one of the reasons that a high school degree just won't cut it anymore. Competition will be more difficult for increasingly technical jobs.
 
Derg said:
Well, we solved the jobs issue in West Virginia by bringin' back coal. Now if we can bring back those Blockbuster Video jobs by opening up the VHS market, we'll get work to the American people.
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More coal is now being dug by fewer people, who are just as un-healthy as ever. If they work in an open-pit mine, they smoke just to even the odds. Income security = opening a respiratory therapy clinic in a deep-mining community.
 
woodreau said:
...Cargo ships are already running with minimal crews of 25-30 crewmembers. Once out at sea, it's pretty much on autopilot, and optimum speed. The watch officer and helmsman are there to avoid the crazy Navy warships that don't follow the rules. They really hate changing speed and only change course to avoid collision.
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... with a larger vessel. They run down the nautical equivalent of GA with great impunity.
 
NovemberEcho said:
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FWIW, The smaller boat was sitting in the middle of the channel. You can see the marker in the background. In that situation, the more maneuverable vessel has to give way. What was the tanker supposed to do? Leave the channel and run aground?
 
Cptnchia said:
FWIW, The smaller boat was sitting in the middle of the channel. You can see the marker in the background. In that situation, the more maneuverable vessel has to give way. What was the tanker supposed to do? Leave the channel and run aground?
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The smaller boats engine was dead. I wasn't posting for any form of judgement either way, just thought it was a cool video and shows just how big these things are
 
Cptnchia said:
FWIW, The smaller boat was sitting in the middle of the channel. You can see the marker in the background. In that situation, the more maneuverable vessel has to give way. What was the tanker supposed to do? Leave the channel and run aground?
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I don't know any of the backstory, but it kind of seemed like they were broken down. I still see your main point, but at the same time it seems like they couldn't really get out of the way.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I don't know any of the backstory, but it kind of seemed like they were broken down. I still see your main point, but at the same time it seems like they couldn't really get out of the way.
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No, they couldn't, and there's the conundrum. The larger vessel probably required over a mile to stop, and cannot maneuver out of the channel. The smaller vessel was disabled in the middle of the channel. That's why I try and stay out of shipping channels.
 
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