Engineering360: "Overhaul planned for B-52 wheels and brakes"

If the B-52 remains in service until 2055, it will have been in service for 100 years!!!

A testimony to slide rule engineering.

Up, over and back down. (Multiplying with the slide rule)

Yep. still have mine. Actually remember how to use it which kinda freaks me out.

The Dial o Matic adding machine still works great too.

I was so happy when the hand held calculators came out. No more worrying about the decimal point. However, I was working for a petrochemical design and build construction company. The piping draftsmen made more money than the structural engineers. They all bought them but didn't know how to use them. Sometimes, our economic system isn't fair. The foreign engineers diluted the need for engineers. The foreign engineers came here to learn engineering and then, go back to their country to help their country. They didn't go back. They stayed here. Working for less than a piping draftsman was ok with them. It beat the hell out of what they would get in their country. Supply and demand is a natural law. When there's plenty of supply, the costs go down. And the government allowed them to stay and keep American engineers pay low. That's still a sore spot with me.

But look how many millionaires we created in the process. Doesn't that make you proud to have sacrificed so much so they can have it all and not appreciate it or you?

As long as America worships wealth and holds the stupid idea that rich people are better people because they are rich, (a very common belief among dirt primitive peoples) we will continue our headlong drive to slavery again. After alll it is the most profitable form of business when you consider your workers as expendable and easily and cheaply replaced.

I have long said I will never be rich because I am morally and ethically incapable of treating people the way the rich do.

If we would replace the American Dream of being a multimillionaire to just being a good citizen with the good things of life-home, auto, education, entertainment, the pleasures and security of a middle class American. That would help a lot. If one does become a multimillionaire by his own wit and brawn, more power to him. And when he passes, his heirs are taxed at the same rate as the ones that worked for their money. They would still have plenty left. This would knock down some of the perpetual de facto royalty in this country. If one works or inherits their income, they should pay taxes at the same rates. It will someday come to past because the world is headed that way.