Could be, he seems to have a beef with some French weapons manufacturers, but is an admirer of Ariane Space. And some remarks he makes about French management culture is backed up by what I have read in other sources.

 

There is definately something holding him back from getting from "above average" to "being top notch".

 

What you have to realize, FJV, is that sometimes I can't tell you why I know what I know. I can only point at what is in the open literature.  

 

And ues I hate the thueves at  Thales. But then Lockmart is not my favorite either.

 

Aurora started NINE years ago as a project. OPT was 2004. 

 

Herald

 

 

 

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Could be, he seems to have a beef with some French weapons manufacturers, but is an admirer of Ariane Space. And some remarks he makes about French management culture is backed up by what I have read in other sources.

The old "I'm not a racist, I have some black firends defense." Sorry but it doesn't fly, there are plenty of criticism that can be levelled towards French systems without resorting to outright lies and fabrications.

 

In fact, you'll find plenty of these on French forums which IMO tends to be much more critical of their own stuff than UK or US ones (and let's not even talk about asian forums).



Aurora started NINE years ago as a project.

 

AURORA

 

Design, Develop and Qualify fuze for Paveway IV Weapon

Contract cover development & production

Successful qualification in early 08 in Full Rate Preduction

[...]

 

Whatever.

 

(now, if this was a constructive discussion I'd concede that the AURORA reuses most of the preceding programs electronics but I'm really not interested in discussing UK fuze programs as they have nothing to do with the original topic).

 

I didn't reply to statements that control signals to UAVs cannot be jammed, because say a reply with a heading of "All signals can be jammed, but this is and example of what could be done to make it harder" based on what I've learned from my electronics hobby would provide free advice on how to make  improved remotely detonated IED's.

 

 

The old "I'm not a racist, I have some black firends defense." Sorry but it doesn't fly, there are plenty of criticism that can be levelled towards French systems without resorting to outright lies and fabrications. 

 

What happens when your design gets made for the first time, is that every mistake you have made will become completely obvious to everybody, no matter how stupid they are. And because your name is on the drawing everybody knows with a 100% certainty that you made the mistake. (and will point that out)

 

That means that after a few years, unless they're that 1 in a million phenomenon, you will rack up an impressive number of such mistakes. An embarrassing amount of which will be stupid. This can be very hard on your self image as a competent human being.

 

It learns you to be very careful with "what you know for sure", because in the past when "what you know for sure" meets reality, "what you know for sure" made you look like an utter and complete idiot.

 

It also means that if "what you know for sure" proves wrong, you've been already been "there" several times.

- It does not suprise you.

- You have less problems admitting to be wrong.

  (Even if only to limit the amount of time of looking stupid to an absolute minimum)

- The "Who is to blame for this mistake?" discussion interests you less nowadays.

- The "How are we going to fix this?" discussion interests you more nowadays.

I don't see signs of Herald having gone through the above "experience".

- His reluctace to admit mistaken assumptions.

- He gives the impression "to know for sure" too much.

 

However his answers also show technical competence. This indicates that Heraldat least has had some engineering classes or has an engineering degree. For some non-engineering jobs you must have an engineering degree. For instance when you want a job operating certain advanced medical machines used in surgery for instance.

 

 

 

 

What you have to realize, FJV, is that sometimes I can't tell you why I know what I know. I can only point at what is in the open literature.  






My work is making technical designs on CAD systems (Autocad, Inventor & Solidworks). This mean you have to make technical drawings and dimensioning those drawings of a machine that does not exist.

Inventor, Solidworks, both programmes I believe to be obsolescent.

 

A Cad-Techie doth not a sigman freud ye make.

 

I get an entirely different impression. Imagine if a noob comes to you with a .stl file of a turbine assembly and suggests you convert it to a class-A parametric surface. This is an analogy, think about it. If you know what you're talking about sometimes it gets irritating to have to state what should be obvious fact to anyone who has the slightest idea what they are talking about.

 

I guess what I am saying is that I think he's legit.

Huh, I think maybe we managed to chase him away.

 

If so, hope I don't jinx it.

 

wh00p

 

As for Heral being the real deal. Let's compare him to the real deal. Let's say someone who actually had what it takes to design some of the best aircraft in history.

Source: "http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/graham-warwick/2008/04/heinemann-his-hot-rod-and-the.html#more"

 

I do not see the attitude described above in Herald.

 

What I see instead is a statement about moving a fuse in a bomb:

The bomb fuse failed to function as designed because it was in the wrong location. The US fuses are now located in the midbody on the casing strong-back. That is why I knew that BA was wrong on that contract as of this year, Warpig. The German fuses (not French) won't fit.

 

I've said this before. I don't believe the Herald has any expertise except being a master at using Google. He make obscure statements to draw people in so that he can then freely insult then because they didn't understand his posts. This particularly applies to anyone and anything French.

 

His analysis is usually laughable and shows no understanding of the issues that he discusses. When challenged, he makes things up or puts forward strawman arguments. Finally, he refers challengers back to unsubstantiated posts of his own that have already been refuted.

 

All in all, he is a total waste of bandwidth and I hope that he has been banned again, this time permanently.

"A lot of what he says checks out as correct. There is technical expertice there."

 

That's why I call him an expert Googler. There's no dispute that he posts factual items from the internet. What's lacking is anything more than the most shallow conclusions drawn from that data.