Speeding...again - Page 2

JohnDotCom · 13th November 2007, 22:36

See Post 2 our Keith.

Raistlin · 14th November 2007, 05:51

Ooops

Twas only intended as a spoof Keith

If you think about what I lecture in at the Defence College...

black olive · 14th November 2007, 06:54

Carl, near preston, I have the dubious privilege of working at Wrton.
Keith, I used to calibrate the STTE ( special to type test equipment) for tornado, and can confirm those boxes are still very much operational.
Dont know how they calibrate and repair them nowadays, items such as punched paper tape readers for the STTE were in short supply when I became a pen pusher over 10 years ago !!

carlpenn · 14th November 2007, 07:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by black olive

Carl, near preston, I have the dubious privilege of working at Wrton.

Cool !!

I grew up near preston - in Longton wich is about 4 miles sout of Preston on the old A59 Road

Keith · 14th November 2007, 20:40

Paper tape! eeeeeee when I were a lad..........

The program on the stores (memory) card in the WPU was tested using a paper tape, I used to have great fun making things up in crazy patterns to fit to the spools on the tape reader to add a bit of colour to the day

I tested and fault found so many that eventually I knew visually from where the tape stopped on the reel roughly which chip on the board may have a fault!

The sortie time for a Tornado is not great which is handy
the WPU used a mutichannel voter system to ensure it had not developed a fault typically it would be happy for about 90 minutes before something failed safe rendering the stores on that particular failing PDU (Pylon Decoder Unit) unavailable.

PS original test set for the AFDS was a thing called a Compaq Apha, huge it was, about 8' high and 10' wide and we had a very early version of text based space invaders on it for weekends iirc!

black olive · 15th November 2007, 21:18

them were the days !!
i did love the calibration job, and particularly working on the tornadoes.

Sadly it was in the news today we lost a BAE Systems navigator at marham, the plane went into an inverted roll, and he banged out/was banged out, found dead in a field- not good

14th November 2007, 06:54	#13
black olive I really should get out more....... 260 SE vin 214 ( last mark 1 260 ) Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2,009 Thanks: 1 Thanked 8 Times in 4 Posts	Carl, near preston, I have the dubious privilege of working at Wrton. Keith, I used to calibrate the STTE ( special to type test equipment) for tornado, and can confirm those boxes are still very much operational. Dont know how they calibrate and repair them nowadays, items such as punched paper tape readers for the STTE were in short supply when I became a pen pusher over 10 years ago !! __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

14th November 2007, 20:40	#15
Keith This is my second home ZT400 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ellesmere Posts: 5,948 Thanks: 0 Thanked 43 Times in 29 Posts	Paper tape! eeeeeee when I were a lad.......... The program on the stores (memory) card in the WPU was tested using a paper tape, I used to have great fun making things up in crazy patterns to fit to the spools on the tape reader to add a bit of colour to the day I tested and fault found so many that eventually I knew visually from where the tape stopped on the reel roughly which chip on the board may have a fault! The sortie time for a Tornado is not great which is handy the WPU used a mutichannel voter system to ensure it had not developed a fault typically it would be happy for about 90 minutes before something failed safe rendering the stores on that particular failing PDU (Pylon Decoder Unit) unavailable. PS original test set for the AFDS was a thing called a Compaq Apha, huge it was, about 8' high and 10' wide and we had a very early version of text based space invaders on it for weekends iirc! Last edited by Keith; 14th November 2007 at 20:42..

15th November 2007, 21:18	#16
black olive I really should get out more....... 260 SE vin 214 ( last mark 1 260 ) Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2,009 Thanks: 1 Thanked 8 Times in 4 Posts	them were the days !! i did love the calibration job, and particularly working on the tornadoes. Sadly it was in the news today we lost a BAE Systems navigator at marham, the plane went into an inverted roll, and he banged out/was banged out, found dead in a field- not good __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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Raistlin Banned 75 CDT Connoisseur SE Auto Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Posts: 8,450 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Ooops Twas only intended as a spoof Keith If you think about what I lecture in at the Defence College...