Notices by Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital), page 4
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 10:35:39 JST 
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 09:33:49 JST
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Yes, many American women are found wanting. But nothing is sadder than a female politician (AOC in this case) who brazenly & brainlessly questioned the legitimacy of the transportation & agriculture industries when she famously quipped:
"Why do we need truck drivers or farmers when everything you could possibly need can be found at a supermarket?"
The Roman Empire could not have been too far off from modern day America when it finally collapsed... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 20:27:29 JST
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Although well-intentioned, all patent & copyright laws do is stymie competition.
I like the open-source world, because it breeds competition and what comes out on top is as good, if not better than their expensive commercially-produced competition.
To give an example, there were many attempts at creating parametric CAD software, but in a relatively short period of time, FreeCAD became the top player. There were plenty of office software applications, but LibreOffice wound up on top. Innovation reigns supreme under the protection of all the different types of open source licensing out there.
Have a project that doesn't hack it? Better have some thick skin... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 09:59:31 JST
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Just think- a couple hundred years ago, a bunch of villagers went to war over a tax on some tea. Yet, here we are, allowing this shit to happen, again, unabated.
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 10:25:25 JST
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When the feline began to hate... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 03:10:22 JST
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This one offsets asymmetric thrust from an engine failure... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:46:17 JST
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It has been around longer than you can believe; but only in the last 30 years have aircraft come online that have much better performance. The recent big deal was the FAA finally allowing the use of non-certified avionics in certified aircraft, breaking the stranglehold that the avionics industry had on the sector, driving down prices by near orders of magnitude.
For example, four years ago, a Garmin ADS-B capable transponder, just one part of an aviomics stack, was once over $12,500. They are now less than a tenth of that...new. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:10:49 JST
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 01:05:15 JST
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Agreed. I wish the plaintiffs luck; but it will be a very tough sell in court. In the E-AB world, any manufacturer has clients sign waivers holding the manufacturer harmless if anything goes wrong, because when it comes to the build part, the builder is by all accounts THE manufacturer, and is ultimately responsible for ensuring the suitability of everything he/she chooses to use for flight use. FAR Part 21 outlines this as well, hence a part of the "51% Rule".
But the questions will be "how was I to know that this material was fraudulent?" and "how can you claim that the product was made in America when you knew it wasn't?".
The kicker about this whole thing was that the boomer who owns the company actually piped up saying that he had been subsidizing the company out of pocket the last few years. In other words, he knew they had bad accounting and bad product, but did nothing, likely because he was that convinced of his market position. Typical boomernomics.
In either case, the reputation of the company is toast. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:35:32 JST
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Indeed. RIP to American presence in the major commercial aviation segment. Boeing's leadership only have themselves to blame for their woes. Fuck 'em.
However, I am in full agreement with several trade publications with respect to the light aviation sector. Cessna & Beechcraft, while fully American, have priced themselves out of the market. Cirrus & Piper are foreign owned & controlled companies that are American in name only, whose products are also rediculously overpriced.
Our corner of the segment, the Experimental & Amateur-Built market, went stale years ago with one company, Vans Aircraft, becoming the defacto leader by way of more-than-friendly and beyond sleazy fanboy-tier media coverage...and deceptively low prices.
For years, they bragged about how all their kits were 'Made in America'. Thanks to the company owners presence on the EAA Board of Directors, Vans Aircraft received the lion's share of coverage. A glance at their monthly magazine, Sport Aviation, would lead one to think there were no other choices out there.
Then, less than a year ago, despite near-monopolization of the market, Vans went into bankruptcy. Why? They lost their asses due to replacing a ton of defective kit parts. This was when it was discovered that the majority of their kits (about 85% worth) were produced in the Philippines. So much for their 'Made in Murica' claims, right? At least that explained the low prices...kind of. Also, they are staring down the barrel of a massive class action lawsuit, due to the aluminum metals used. Turns out the main reason behind the low prices was the fact that the metals were sourced from China. As is tradition with cheap Chinese shit, not everything was as it seemed. A spar with "6061-T6" stamped on it was not the case with some aircraft. We discovered this with a client's Vans RV-9A that was showing abnormal signs of fatigue in the spar. That bird, that the client spent 10 years building, is no longer airworthy after just five years and 337 hours of hangar-kept, well-maintained, normal, non-aerobatic use.
Yeah, Vans is done. Numerous other kit manufacturers are going under due to a general lack of demand, because after Vans' flex, what they offer is a copy of something that has already been done. You can only do so many scaled down warbird replicas, so many ultralights, so many Long EZ look-alikes. Literally nothing new; nothing next level. Nothing better.
We are entering the market with what we hope is an answer to these problems.
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:00:18 JST
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Boeing is currently occupied replacing White workers with Haitian savages....who I understand will be backfilling all the White workers on strike.
Speaking of, that associate of mine, before coming down here, is lawyering up and going public -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 07:47:33 JST
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Speaking of this shit, I just got off a phone with a friend after he texted me in a panic. He is a production quality control tech at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park PA...and what he told me is going down there time now is sickening.
In short, the company took some kind of grant, and two busloads of tyese savages were delivered this morning, with production workers ordered to train these unskilled pieces of shit to assemble aircraft (H-47 & V-22) and dynamic components there...with explicit directives from his leadership that any leaks of this will result in immediate termination.
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 11:19:38 JST
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Would be a shame if his contact info ended up out there...
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 10:54:37 JST
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Going to go out on a limb here, but if you have 3D printing, CAD, auto/marine/aero maintenance, composite fabrication background, Arduino, PiRaspberry, or Python experience, we are looking to hire soon. Namely, we intend to hire:
2x Composites Fabricators
1x Associate Engineer (CAD, FEM, CFD)
1x Associate Engineer (Electronics, Avionics, Instrumentation)
We are an aerospace prototyping & development engineering firm in Texas, south of FTW, east of Austin. One of our projects is the development of a multi-place light aircraft; construction of the first prototype starts next spring.
The ideal candidates will have a general technical background (yes, related hobby-level experience counts), capable of lifting 35 pounds, in decent physical condition, free of drug & alcohol addiction, willing to learn in a very fast paced environment, able to travel if needed, and while you do not need to be married and/or with children, being family-oriented is a plus. We have no foxgirls available, so I apologize in advance.
We will offer a competitive salary, medical & dental benefits and will likely be in position to assist in relocation.
DM for details if genuinely interested.
If you're a CI for LE or the feds, don't bother; you will be found out. Same if you have a hooked nose & beady eyes; our spaces are judenfrei & negerfrei.
Below is a sample molded composite wing we did a few months ago for a local school. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:41:37 JST
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I must agree with this, as uncomfortable as it sounds. We will likely face a similar choice here soon.
Think of it as cancer; to fully remove it, you must necessarily take some of the otherwise healthy tissue adjacent to it.
If we are to lose some Whites in this struggle, I'd rather it be the insufferable enablers. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:28:04 JST
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Solution: Transition to open-source software. You'll never be beholden to the cloud, exorbitant fees or the woke initiatives of big tech, let alone single-point failures like what we just saw.
FLOSS is the backbone of the parallel ecosystem.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/20/microsofts-meltdown-a-wake-up-call-for-woke-tech-giants/
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