It’s all about the Time….

“Down the Camel Shed straight reaching three hundred kilometers per hour, braking down to 2nd gear sixty kilometers per hour….hohohoooo hard on the brakes, you can see the carbon dust flying as he hits the brakes for the chicane …now, accelerating out of the chicane on turn 11, getting on the power ….nice and early, around the last sequence of corners…bouncing over the curves….coming up to the start-finish line….is it going to be beat the time set by the Renault …lets keep an eye on the timing monitors…across the line,… …P1 ! for Lewis Hamilton… by nine thousandths of a second…!!”
Phew, exactly how fast is nine thousandths of a second…..!
That, was the race commentary I heard the other day on television…

The Formula 1 world championship is all about time! Hard core racing, car control, team work, mechanical reliability and technology from the simple drinking water bottle pump directing fluids into the driver’s helmet, to the complex aerodynamic wings on the front and rear of the car to generate down force. They all work towards one goal…to be the quickest…the fastest in every segment of the race. Time in Formula 1 is critical….
And so it is in many other areas. From a heart surgeons operating table to the business house dealing in cloth merchandise.
So where does technology fit into this quest for the race against time. The answer’s right there in the example above. A second is too long. Technology helps save time. Oh yes the ultimate reason driving people and businesses on the path to making the best of time, is the money! But let’s put that aside for another day….another Time !

Let’s see, I’m not going to waste a whole deal of time trying to showcase how over the years, man discovered that a fire could be started by rubbing stones together to the date when a turn of a knob gives us not only fire, but a far more economical, controlled, high calorific value, variable size… flame!
There are text books full of those and other ways in which technologies have been developed to make better use of time available.

Instead, lets get to an example that shows how existing technologies can be integrated toward the same goal. No new ‘state-of-the-art’ developments… No multi million dollar patents and years of research and experiments.
Just the simple no-nonsense approach of getting existing capabilities together, and creating a state-of-the-art ‘trend’!

Aircraft Maintenance will no longer be the same.!

Aviation.....an introduction

From the time I really understood what a blog was all about (as I later found out a short for ‘weblog’ !), I’ve been trying to come up with ideas for my very own blog. It had to be associated with my obsession, it had to be uncomplicated (much as I am tempted to !), it had to be informative, and it had to be rich in clarity.
And so, after pondering stubbornly on how it would include all those, and allow me the patience to sit down and write, I came up with A&PTechnologies. Or Airframe and Powerplant technologies. Airframe and Powerplant happens to be my entry point to the aviation dream ….. Technologies is what causes all the pain! The need to learn, unlearn, relearn, only to unlearn all over again ! Technology is like that isn’t it….it ‘keeps you on your toes.’ The day you say “Enough!”, you WILL become redundant.

Before I get into the depths of technologies associated with Aviation, there’s a couple of thoughts on careers in aviation. The first career that comes to mind when dealing with aviation, is that of an Airline Pilot. He is no doubt at the forefront of any airliner you will see. There are those little less known heroes that put the aircraft up in the skies, keep the them flying safely, and other not-so-famous heroes who make aviation a Business to be run profitably!
So here I decided to attempt bridging the gap between a complicated but beautiful piece of machinery that uses state-of-the-art-technology - often lending itself to other industry’s, and our common understanding of it, in not-so-complicated terms.

Aviation……the Dream!
Somewhere in the process of growing up, most of us have looked up at the skies to that large airliner gliding effortlessly through and into our most vivid of dreams. “Ah ! I believe I can fly !!” No doubt it triggered a flood of emotion the first time you saw it. And, the little child in us blurts out – “ I want to be an Airline Pilot”
Over time, some of us grow up, others nurse that little dream somewhere deep down, and still others take that dream quite seriously embarking on the beautiful but complicated path that is Aviation. Like they say “looks can be deceptive” the glamour and glitz associated with aviation is just that. Having said that, it is also one tremendously satisfying career that will take you on a roller coaster of emotions, no different from what you perceived when you saw your fist “Jumbo in the sky!”