aeronautical

What good would an aeronautical engineer be _in flight_?

I've never experienced anything close to this bad, but I've had a couple of aeronautical close scrapes and there's just no room for fear. Edit: had the same experience in a car once as well.

And by all account, he was one of the most competent test pilots/aeronautical engineers in the program.

If I'm on a flight and they're asking for aeronautical engineers, I'll be asking for their strongest and most expensive drinks.

That said, I'm not an aeronautical or control systems engineer, so this is just speculation.

This begs for a "runway designators" font - would look great for aeronautical or technical titles !

I'm no aeronautical engineer but I'd be willing to be that the bottom falls out. To their credit, the site mentions this: "If youve ever had a pilots licence youll fly Nano right out of the box.

"Is there an aeronautical engineer on board," One of the top 5 questions you don't want to hear over the loudspeaker while flying on a supersonic jet.

You left off the part where he also had the technical chops beyond just being a pilot he had a background in aeronautical engineering. He was lucky, smart and humble enough to know the difference between the two.

Is it only showing airports because the dataset uses climate data from aeronautical sources?

As the aeronautical engineer friend of mine says when you ask him why he's writing web UI's rather than building rockets, which is what he trained to do: "Because this flies and that doesn't."

She was forced to clarify, "Is there an aeronautical engineer on board," to disappointment all around. I must admit, some secret part of me always hopes I'll be in a situation on an airplane where they need an emergency perl script written .

Active noise cancellation and better screens don't come cheap, and most of the compromises he cites were decided out of economy, not because aeronautical engineers are thoughtless. It seems like the most practical thing for him to do would be to pony up and pay for business class.

Especially since I was flying back from a conference where one of the speakers had been talking about inadequate firewalling between IFE systems and aeronautical control systems.

> I mean shit, I don't need to be an aeronautical engineer or work in the FAA to say that several people investigating an airliner crash will be more effective than one single dude sifting through a literal field of debris. With zero people looking at airliner failures, nothing will be discovered, no matter how many inspectors the FAA has on its payroll.

I hope I'm not the only one enjoying the meta discussion going on, with interesting links to impressive aeronautical engineering feats pinging back and forth. I feel like HN decided to have an after-hours conversation on these planes, and a bunch of us get the pleasure to peek at a subinterest of apparently a bunch of hacker-types.

Some other interesting moments of aeronautical derring-do: Imagine piloting an unpowered aircraft with no wings which could best be described as a "flying bathtub" and by "flying" what is meant is "falling". This is the M2-F{1,2,3}, designed to test lifting body aerodynamics and unpowered landings, much of this research helped in the design of the shuttle orbiter.

But, be careful: Even if autonomous vehicles are your real interest, you may find that mostly the qualifications needed are in mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, control system engineering, software engineering, electronic engineering, etc. , and each of these is a more definite academic field.