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Three Engines, No Bottleneck: What NASP Understood That's Easy to Forget
Why the right answer to "which engine" is sometimes "how many kinds"
Aug 13
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No Red X's
A book report on "Radium Girls" and workplace safety
Aug 12
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Wanted: Used Engineers
A FEB™ Big Why on Why the Best Companies Won’t Hire New Grads for the Hardest Jobs
Aug 11
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Arrival Is Emotional. Survival Is Fixed Cost.
Follow the S-Curve
Aug 11
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Avoid the Trap of a Bottleneck with FEB Thinking
Why the fastest way through a bottleneck is to never reach it
Aug 6
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Clock Out to Grieve
A plant that called everyone "family" — and what it cost to test the word
Aug 5
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Sometimes I Scratch My Head When I Read the News
Or: What the FAA Learned From Drones — and What It Didn’t
Aug 4
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July 2026
A Predictable and Measured Failure
The story of composite aircraft structural development
Jul 30
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Not One Engine Passed
What the Lockland engine inspectors knew
Jul 29
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The Most Expensive Way to Save Money
A product optimized to a fine point cannot be rejuvenated
Jul 28
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The Durability of the B-52 Will Outlive Us All
The Short Life of the F-22
Jul 23
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California, China, and the Geometry Problem
Does the train shape the city or the city shape the train?
Jul 22
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