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Hartford Business Journal's Greg Bordonaro checks in to discuss a new preferred location for the federal courthouse in Hartford, federal funding cuts to the arts and culture industry, and the latest on the Pratt & Whitney strike, including Pratt's recent "commitment to CT”.

Join the hosts as they take you through all the news from around the world and across the UK. In this week's show: Spirit Airlines are being compensated handsomely for ongoing Pratt & Whitney engine issues, both Boeing and Airbus Parts are reaching Russia via India (hashtag awkward) and the FAA mandates Boeing 737NG nacelle changes following the deadly 2018 CFM56 failure.     In the military it seems that Boeing can't get a break, now that cracks (if you'll pardon the pun) in the KC-46 tankers halt all deliveries. We discuss the on-going issues that the manufacturer has with this aircraft. Take part in our chatroom to help shape the conversation of the show. You can get in touch with us all at : WhatsApp +44 7446 975 214 Email podcast@planetalkinguk.com or comment in our chatroom on YouTube.

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La huelga de Boeing promete afectar de forma crítica a todas las aerolíneas, que necesitan nuevos aviones para mejorar sus flotas ante la mayor demanda. Ryanair ya ha anunciado que tendrá que revisar a la baja sus estimaciones de tráfico de pasajeros para el próximo año. Air France-KLM también se ha visto afectada por los problemas de los motores Pratt&Whitney en sus pedidos de Airbus A220 mientras que Lufthansa reconoce que nunca había visto retrasos como los del Boeing 777X. LVMH se hunde en bolsa por debajo de los 600 euros por acción después de publicar unas ventas del tercer trimestre por debajo de lo previsto y que contagia al sector del lujo. Italia reforzará su impuesto a los servicios digitales como parte de los planes para recaudar más ingresos en los Presupuestos de 2025. Y Reino Unido consigue que la inflación se coloque por debajo del objetivo del 2% por primera vez en tres años y medio. Hablaremos del perfil de la mujer en la inversión: menos riesgo, más planificación con Patricia Laplana, directora del área de clientes de Norz Patrimonia. Los temas de la actualidad los debatiremos en la Tertulia de Cierre de Mercados con Javier Domínguez, de aurigabonos.es, y Jaime Gil Delgado, Consultor independiente de Asset Management y Alterntivos.

London's FTSE 100 enjoyed a better start on Tuesday following a slight dip at the start of the week. Retail figures early on showed sales across the sector ticked up by 1% in August and outdid growth in July, driven by food products and aided by warmer weather. Among companies, packaging firm DS Smith moved higher after reassuring investors a planned £5.8 billion takeover by International Paper was on track despite concerns it could be axed. Watches of Switzerland soared in the meantime, having reiterated full-year guidance and highlighted improving conditions in the UK and US in its report. And finally, Wizz Air also climbed after announcing passenger numbers hit a record in August despite ongoing groundings due to Pratt & Whitney engine issues. #proactiveinvestors #marketreport #ftse #ftse100 #footsie #retailsales #pratt@whitney #wizzair #watchesofswitzerland #internationalpaper #dssmith #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Airbus is really excited about an open-rotor engine. Boeing not so much. Listen in as Aviation Week's Guy Norris explains the background behind his recent story on Boeing's current assessment of CFM International's RISE open fan concept. He is joined by colleagues Jens Flottau, who weighs in on the strategic implications, and Sean Broderick, who provides an update on how Pratt & Whitney is managing issues with its GTF engine. Hosted by Joe Anselmo.

How do large corporations decide what part of the country they should move to or build new facilities? It's much more than a random recommendation, a sale price, or a gut feeling. They do in-depth studies and often hire expensive consultants because it's a huge investment and they don't want to get it wrong.  In this episode, you'll hear from site selection consultant, John Boyd Jr., who has his finger on development across the nation. John will talk about the site selection process, the exodus from California and where companies are going, challenges in choosing the right location, industries that are driving growth in various parts of the country, and the impact of climate change. He'll also share some information on a few of the hottest growth markets in the nation today, including an area near San Antonio, Texas. John is at The Boyd Company out of Princeton, New Jersey. It's one of the most trusted and well-known corporate site selection firms in the nation with clients like Boeing, Chevron, Pratt & Whitney, PepsiCo, Visa International, Shell, Honda Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, and JP Morgan Chase. John is often invited to speak at conferences and is routinely featured in the global news media to talk about corporate site selection, economic development and the real estate industry. If you'd like to learn more about some of the exciting projects RealWealth is doing in the San Antonio area, sign up for a free RealWealth membership and login. We are currently acquiring new parcels of land for build-to-rent homes as part of a syndication. We also have a property team in San Antonio that can help you acquire rental homes on your own with a low mortgage thanks to builder incentives.  ~~~~ JOIN RealWealth® FOR FREE

Dawnlough Precision is a subcontract manufacturing business that has travelled a relentless journey of growth since it started manufacturing tooling for the aerospace and medical industries back at the start of the millennium. The ascension to success has arrived through an aggressive growth strategy and investment in high-end machine tools. Part of this high-level investment journey has included the arrival of two Bumotec 191neo turn/mill centres from Starrag. By Rhys Williams Initially founded in 1987, the turn of the millennium has seen the Galway manufacturer gain accreditation to ISO: 9001, ISO: 13485 and AS: 9100D, establish a design department and increase its manufacturing facility to 50,000sq/ft. Underpinning this growth is the adoption of advanced production tools such as FMEA, PPAP and SPC. To maintain its growth trajectory, Dawnlough has invested in the most flexible, capable and productive machine tools – and this is why it has recently taken delivery of two Bumotec 191neo machines. The world-class production facility on the West Ireland coast has more than 54 CNC machine tools that provide premium manufacturing solutions. Recently acquired by the Acrotec Group, the 110-employee business is still run by longstanding Managing Director and previous owner Brian McKeon.  Looking at the path the business is taking, Keith Kennedy, Aerospace Production Manager at Dawnlough says: “We manufacture high precision components for the Aerospace and Robotic Assisted Surgical Industries as well as tooling and production aids for the medical device sector. When I started in 2006, tooling was the main business focus, but as the aerospace and medical device industries have expanded locally this presented many opportunities. Our aerospace work started with seating components for Rockwell Collins, which led us to 5-axis machining. We then progressed to flight-critical components for the likes of Spirit Aero Systems and Pratt & Whitney. Similarly, we progressed from manufacturing medical tooling and instruments to producing complete assemblies.” Discussing the expansion in the medical industry, Keith continues: “Our core business has predominantly focused on vascular work and from this, we have expanded our offering. We now produce an array of components for our RAS customers as well as consumable instruments. The First Bumotec on the Emerald Isle It is here that the search for a suitable machine led Dawnlough to purchase a Bumotec 191neo FTL-R in June 2022. Discussing the acquisition, Keith recalls: “We had several components we initially targeted for this type of machine.”  “We needed a machine with very high levels of accuracy, short cycle times and incredible efficiency because it's a very competitive market. We visited many companies, reviewing high-accuracy machines, but it's only as you look closer and purchase one of these machines for this type of work - you really see the ‘value-add' they bring. We were looking for repeatability, flexibility, high spindle speeds, the ability to machine hard material and 2-3µm precision on production runs. We had very specific requirements and we were not sure if it was going to be achievable.” “Some of our initial trial parts were 46HRc and we are using tools from 0.1 to 0.5mm. We needed repeatability of 2 to 3µm, but we needed to hold that overnight. Some of the functions of the Bumotec machine such as the software for monitoring the machine, the cutting load, the contact cutting time and the large 90 tool ATC in the machine are incredible.” “It was a huge investment and an unknown risk, but the Bumotec ticked all of our boxes. The big thing about Bumotec was the flexibility. It offered everything we wanted. It's an exceptional machine with accuracy that takes our business to a different level.”  As well as machining 46HRc parts, there was also a need for specific RAS parts that were a key driver to the first Bumotec installation, Keith says: “We were machining these parts in batches of 200-off up to six times a year and there are 6 different parts in the family with a projected ramp-up of 200-300% a year. So, we wouldn't have been able to support the customer with our existing method. There was also a fallout due to accuracy, as we couldn't 100% meet the GDT accuracy.” “We needed to put a bar diameter in the machine up to 1.5 inches whilst also running high precision production runs of small instrumentation parts. The Bumotec also had the sub-spindle and a robotic unit which was important, as we need traceability for every part we make. We took demonstration parts to Bumotec in Switzerland in April 2022 and we received the machine in June. Success Brings Machine Number 2… Following the success of the Bumotec 191neo with FTL-R configuration, the Galway company then added a second Bumotec 191neo in March 2023. Supplied with an FTL-PRM configuration, the second Bumotec 191neo was introduced with complete automation and a 20-position pallet station for lights-out production. As Keith continues: “What they offered us with the second machine was a complete turnkey solution for our instrumentation components. We had given them a target for extreme levels of precision and production volume with the flexibility to produce families of parts.” “We needed to machine materials from 46 to 52HRc such as 17-4 and 420 stainless steel as well as titanium. The instrument parts for use in invasive robotic surgery include tools like grippers, cutting instruments and scissors. We are producing the parts in medium to high volume runs across two different parts in various quantities per month.” Some of the parts had very long cycle times on the 5-axis machines and this needed to be reduced to below 30 minutes with 48HRc material. Not only was the cycle time a challenge, but Dawnlough had to attain precision levels in a production environment with the flexibility to produce upwards of 30 different components. Initially machining 20 to 50 parts a month, the schedule was set to rise rapidly to 200 parts per month before reaching production volumes – numbers not possible on a 5-axis machining centre.  “With the second machine, we knew exactly what Bumotec could offer, so we worked with them remotely. What Bumotec offer is exceptional and way beyond anything we had anticipated. With the original Bumotec 191neo FTL-R, we had the sub-spindle, but with the next set of parts we needed the Bumotec 191neo FTL-PRM. With this machine, we had the option of the vice, a 3m bar feed and also a robot loader. We needed the robot loader for traceability. It also expanded the capacity of the machine where we could go from 50mm barfed stock to 80mm billet loading.” “The sub-spindle option we had on the FTL-R wasn't feasible for the parts we needed, whereas the FTL-PRM gave us two vices. Without the vices, we would have needed to undertake secondary machining, so to be able to pick up the component in the vice and conduct the second operation in a single cycle was key to finishing the parts.” Contributing to the conversation, Dawnlough's General Manager, Mr Eddie McHugh adds: “We were machining parts on our 5-axis machining centres and we needed to increase output by 400%. We were machining around 400 parts a month on two different products with a cycle time of 45 minutes. This was tying up two machines and one man permanently every month. On second and third shifts with fewer staff, we had concerns about machine tolerance drift, so output was reduced and it also made inspection labour intensive.”  Looking at additional savings with the arrival of the Bumotec 191neo FTL-PRM, Eddie adds: “There is a labour saving with one man running two machines around the clock. Additionally, with the pallet loader, the parts are loaded into the machine and back to the pallet loader in a specific order which made huge savings on inspection. We have also made considerable savings on tool costs and changeovers and this is a credit to the 40,000rpm spindle.” With machine tools from 10 different manufacturers, Dawnlough has one machine alongside the two Bumotec 191neo that is commonly used in the medical industry. Comparing this machine to the Bumotec, Keith continues: “In comparison, the Bumotec has increased capacity, it has a larger tool library, higher spindle speeds, a larger diameter bar capacity and a lot of other features that just offers so much more flexibility. It's not only a better and more flexible option, it's a more robust machine.” The Future Looking to the future, Dawnlough has plans for more Bumotec machines and continued expansion, which will certainly continue with the ambition of the Acrotec Group. “The machines are extremely flexible and this means we can just change the programmes over, the jaws and collets and it is ready to go in less than 2 hours. For our high-precision mid to high volumes with a high mix of complexity – the Bumotec is the perfect machine for our business.” Service Dawnlough is well positioned to serve its customers – but machine tool suppliers have not always served Dawnlough with a level of customer support that a leading manufacturer would expect. Referring to the service and support from Bumotec, Keith concludes: “The service is exceptional. There is absolutely no comparison to some of our other machine suppliers. Starrag is a brand with a limited footprint in Ireland and I believe our Bumotec was their first machine in Ireland. Despite other brands having a larger footprint in the area, the Bumotec support is second to none.”  Eddie concurs by adding: “The service from Bumotec is probably the best we have had. If you need engineering support they are there straightaway, whether it's engineering support, post-processors, technical queries or anything else. The support has been fantastic.”

Blind spots—easy to see in others, but how do we recognize our own? Marisa Murray joins Kevin to explore strategies for uncovering and addressing blind spots. Murray outlines seven types of blind spots and shares examples. These include false assumptions, unhealthy detachment, differing views of success, outdated core beliefs, unconscious habits, triggers from past pain, and mismatched mindsets. She highlights the importance of recognizing how others perceive our actions versus our intentions. Murray suggests we move from feedback to impact statements to address blind spots. Listen For 00:00 Introduction 02:19 Marisa Murray's Latest Book on Leadership 06:50 The Concept of Blind Spots in Leadership and Life 08:22 Misinterpretation of Intentions and Impact 11:23 Types of Blind Spots: False Assumptions 13:04 Types of Blind Spots: Unhealthy Detachment 14:16 Types of Blind Spots: Different Views of Success 14:55 Types of Blind Spots: Outdated Core Beliefs 16:27 Types of Blind Spots: Unconscious Habits 17:16 Types of Blind Spots: Triggers from Past Pain 24:04 Gathering Feedback and Insights from Others 29:13 Small Changes for Big Impacts  Meet Marisa Marisa's Story: Marisa Murray P. Eng., MBA, PCC is the author of three Amazon Best Selling leadership development books: Work Smart: Your Formula for Unprecedented Professional Success, Iterate! How Turbulent Times Are Changing Leadership and How to Pivot, and her latest, Blind Spots: How Great Leaders Uncover Problems and Unlock Performance. She is also the co-author of the USA Today Bestseller: The Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage). Marisa is a leadership development expert and the CEO of Leaderley International, an organization dedicated to helping executives become better leaders in today's rapidly changing, highly complex world. Marisa leverages her over two decades of executive experience as a former Partner with Accenture and VP at Bell Canada in providing executive coaching, and leadership development services for organizations including Molson-Coors, Pratt & Whitney, and Queen's University. http://www.leaderley.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/murraymarisa/  Book Recommendations Blind Spots: How Great Leaders Uncover Problems and Unleash Performance by Marisa Murray Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great by Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss, J. Richard Hackman The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick Lencioni

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Thursday, Nov. 30  The WV Housing Development Fund helps hundreds of West Virginians become first-time homeowners. WV's own NASA whiz Katherine Johnson will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. And WV's aviation industry continues to expand… on today's daily304. #1 – From WVHDF – Becoming a first-time homeowner is made easier thanks to the West Virginia Housing Development Fund.  The organization has financed nearly $90 million in new mortgage loans since July, thanks in large part to its competitive interest rates. The WVHDF's flagship Homeownership Program loaned just over $80 million, including $28 million in October alone, to 411 first-time West Virginia home buyers, helping them achieve the dream of homeownership.  As a state housing finance agency, the WVHDF can sell tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds and offer below-market rates to qualified first-time home buyers. Borrowers may qualify for rates as low as 5.83 percent.  Prospective homeowners can contact the Fund at 800-933-8511 or visit www.wvhdf.com/home-buyers for more information on home loan programs. The organization also partners with more than 60 banks, credit unions, and independent mortgage companies across the state to offer our products.  Learn more: https://www.wvhdf.com/news-release-hundreds-become-homeowners-through-wvhdf-loan-programs   #2 – From WCHS-TV –  A West Virginia State University alumna that made her mark on the space industry will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame next fall. Mathematician Katherine Johnson played a vital role in helping NASA launch flights into space, and eventually to the moon in the 1960s. Her story was featured in the book “Hidden Figures,” which was also made into a movie. It's the latest in a long list of honors for Johnson. She also was the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and a presidential Medal of Freedom. Fairmont's NASA facility has been renamed to honor Johnson and a statue of her stands on WVSU's campus.  Read more: https://wchstv.com/news/local/wvsu-alumna-nasa-mathematician-katherine-johnson-to-be-inducted-into-national-aviation-hall-of-fame-space-moon-hidden-figure-congressional-golf-medal-presidential-medal-of-freedom-hidden-figures-dayton-ohio   #3 – From TIMES WV –  The holiday season means a lot of things — seeing loved ones, eating delicious food, decorating the house — the list goes on. It also often means traveling. A large portion of the angst that comes with travel can be entirely eradicated by using our local airports. North Central West Virginia Airport (CKB), however, offers more than just flights.  Aircraft manufacturing is a major industry on CKB property. Both Aurora Flight Sciences – a Boeing Company – and Lockheed Martin, two of the largest players in the industry, have a presence here. Between the two, there are pieces of aircraft being welded, painted, and assembled in Bridgeport every day. Maintenance is another key aspect of the industry. Pratt & Whitney houses a Center of Excellence for corporate turbofan and turboprop engine maintenance, and Engine & Airframe Solutions Worldwide offers a full-service repair facility. But all these businesses can't operate without people. Pierpont Community and Technical College hosts their Aviation Maintenance Technology program, and future pilots are trained through the Fairmont State University Aviation Center of Excellence, with a hangar connected to the CKB runway.   These all serve as an example of a rapidly expanding aviation industry in #YesWV. Read more: https://www.timeswv.com/community/community_columns/beyond-the-hustle-of-holiday-travel/article_53bc441c-7ffc-11ee-8682-0f5dbe17c7d8.html?fbclid=IwAR1kCQbnl3c3P6O9FMhoDA0FqTR3hvETjeEGCT4V72QSgamk4-xO8MpjaGo   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.  

Cả Boeing và Airbus đều sẽ không đưa máy bay mới vào hoạt động trước năm 2035. Tuy nhiên, để giảm đáng kể tác động khí hậu của máy bay trong tương lai, các nghiên cứu về khí động học mới, hoặc về động cơ cực kỳ hiệu quả đã và đang được tiến hành. Những phát minh mới theo hướng này đã được giới thiệu tại Triển lãm Hàng không và Không gian Le Bourget, ngoại ô Paris (19 đến 25/06/2023). Chiếc Airbus A320 đã bay lần đầu năm 1987, còn Boeing 737 thì bắt đầu cất cánh sớm hơn 20 năm. Hai loại máy bay được sử dụng rộng rãi nhất trên thế giới đã được phát triển qua nhiều năm theo hướng hoạt động hiệu quả hơn, tức là tiêu thụ ít nhiên liệu hơn, bởi vì chỉ riêng nhiên liệu đã chiếm gần 30% chi phí của một hãng hàng không. Nhưng để đạt được mục tiêu trung hòa carbon vào năm 2050 mà 193 quốc gia thành viên Tổ chức Hàng không Dân dụng Quốc tế (ICAO) đã cam kết, ngành sản xuất máy bay phải đẩy nhanh hơn nữa những thay đổi đó.Theo Christian Scherer, giám đốc thương mại của Airbus, hiện giờ, các phi cơ thế hệ mới nhất tiêu thụ ít hơn 15% nhiên liệu và do đó thải ra càng ít CO2, nhưng đội máy bay của thế giới đang được sử dụng vẫn bao gồm 3/4 là máy bay từ các thế hệ trước. Trả lời phỏng vấn tuần báo Aviation Week gần đây, chủ tịch tập đoàn Airbus Guillaume Faury cho biết: "Chúng tôi đang chuẩn bị đưa vào sử dụng máy bay mới trong nửa sau của thập kỷ tới, nhắm mục tiêu là năm 2035", nghĩa là sẽ khởi động chương trình này vào cuối những năm 2020. Tập đoàn Mỹ Boeing cũng vậy, sẽ không chế tạo một phi cơ mới khi nào mà các công nghệ chưa sẵn sàng, theo lời tổng giám đốc Dave Calhoun. Nhưng giám đốc đặc trách máy bay thương mại của Boeing, ông Stan Deal, cho biết: “Chúng tôi đang tập trung phát triển các khả năng giúp đạt được mức cải thiện khoảng 20% ​​hoặc hơn khi đưa sản phẩm mới ra thị trường”. Cùng với NASA, Boeing đã đầu tư hơn một tỷ đôla vào việc nghiên cứu một cấu ​​trúc mới mang tính cách mạng, gọi theo tiếng Anh là Transonic Truss-Brace Wing, một máy bay có đôi cánh rất dài được hỗ trợ bởi các thanh chống, có thể giúp giảm tới 30% mức tiêu thụ nhiên liệu và lượng khí thải CO2. Tại Pháp, Văn phòng Nghiên cứu Hàng không Vũ trụ (ONERA) cũng đang thực hiện dự án Gullhyver về máy bay cánh dài, được giới thiệu tại triển lãm Le Bourget. Philippe Beaumier, giám đốc chương trình hàng không dân dụng của ONERA, giải thích: “Cánh càng dài thì lực cản của máy bay càng ít và máy bay càng tiêu thụ ít nhiên liệu.Do tính đàn hồi của nó, cánh máy bay được hỗ trợ bởi một “cánh tay”. Máy bay sẽ có thân không phải dạng tròn, mà hơi dẹt, để tối ưu hóa tính khí động học. Airbus cũng đang nghiên cứu một loại cánh có các đầu gấp, lấy cảm hứng từ đường bay của chim hải âu lớn, nhằm giảm thiểu nhiễu loạn trong chuyến bay và tiết kiệm 10% mức tiêu thụ nhiên liệu. Dự án Gullhyver cũng dựa trên cái gọi là động cơ không ống dẫn, hoặc "quạt hở", nghĩa là một động cơ sẽ không được bao quanh bởi vỏ bọc. CAD: Nhiên liệu của tương laiTại triển lãm Le Bourget năm nay, ban tổ chức đã dành hẳn một gian thật lớn trong khuôn khổ Paris Air Lab (Phòng thí nghiệm hàng không Paris) để giới thiệu những dự án, những phát minh mới, hay những cải tiến về máy bay tương lai ít gây ô nhiễm, ít phát ra khí thải hơn, trong đó có việc phát triển các loại nhiên liệu phi carbon hóa cho máy bay. Tại đây, chúng tôi đă gặp được Nicolas Simon, đại điện một công ty phát triển loại Nhiên liệu bền vững cho máy bay, gọi tắt theo tiếng Pháp là CAD. Anh giải thích:“ CAD nói tóm tắt là một trong những đòn bẩy để tiến đến việc phi carbon hóa máy bay, ngoài hai đòn bẩy kia là giảm bớt tiêu thụ nhiên liệu và nâng cao hiệu quả sử dụng năng lượng. CAD là loại nhiên liệu thay thế cho kerosene, được chế tạo từ các loại sinh khối như dầu ăn thực vật, dầu ăn đã qua sử dụng, chẳng hạn như dầu thu hồi từ các nhà hàng thức ăn nhanh McDonald, hay bã trong nông nghiệp. Hoặc cũng có thể là điện sản xuất từ nguồn phi carbon hóa, hay khí CO2 thu hồi trong không khí.Loại CAD được sử dụng nhiều nhất hiện nay là HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), tức dầu thực vật hydro hóa. Đã có những nhà máy chế tạo loại nhiên liệu này ở Pháp, ở châu Âu, ở Mỹ, ở khắp nơi trên thế giới.Chúng ta cũng có những dự án ở Pháp, ở châu Âu phát triển những nhiên liệu từ nhựa cây, từ bã trong nông nghiệp và từ alcool.”Theo lời anh Nicolas Simon, tuy vậy con đường sẽ còn dài cho đến khi cho đến khi các loại nhiên liệu bền vững cho máy bay thật sự giúp cắt giảm đáng kể lượng khí phát thải: “ Hiện giờ các nhiên liệu đó được pha trộn với kérosène với tỷ lệ 1 hoặc 2%, giống như nhiên liệu sinh học được pha trộn trong xăng cho xe hơi. Chúng tôi sẽ nâng tỷ lệ đó lên cao mức nhất có thể được. Liên Hiệp Châu Âu đã đề ra mục tiêu đến năm 2050 nâng tỷ lệ nhiên liệu CAD lên tới 70%. Như vậy là con đường sẽ còn rất dài. Các nghiên cứu cho thấy là mức giảm khí phát thải CO2 có thể lên tới từ 80 đến 90% tùy theo loại sinh khối, tùy theo loại điện được sử dụng trong các nhà máy sản xuất nhiên liệu, đó là điện từ nguồn carbon, hay điện không phải từ nguồn carbon như điện hạt nhân, hay điện từ các nguồn năng lượng tái tạo.”Máy bay hybrid Và cũng giống như xe hơi, các hãng trong ngành chế tạo máy bay, như công ty Collins Aerospace của Mỹ đang phát triển các loại máy bay hybrid, tức là chạy bằng xăng và điện, để giảm mức tiêu thụ nhiên liệu. Trả lời RFI Việt ngữ tại khu Paris Air Lab của triển lãm Le Bourget, Etienne Gomez, đại diện của công ty Collins Aerospace, cho biết: “Collins Aerospace đang phát triển những động cơ điện có công suất từ 100 kW đến 1 megawatt. Đây là một động cơ 1 megawatt đã được thử nghiệm thành công. Điểm đáng nói về động cơ điện-xăng và đó cũng là thế mạnh của tổ hợp RTX quy tụ Collins Aerospace với nhà sản xuất động cơ máy bay Pratt & Whitney và tập đoàn quốc phòng Raytheon, đó là chúng tôi kết hợp động cơ điện với động cơ nhiệt, mà động cơ nhiệt nay cũng có thể chạy bằng CAD, nhiên liệu bền vững cho máy bay.Việc kết hợp động cơ điện 1 megawatt với động cơ nhiệt sẽ giúp giảm khoảng 30% mức tiêu thụ nhiên liệu và như vậy giảm lượng khí phát thải với một tỷ lệ tương đương.Việc phát triển động cơ điện nằm trong nhiều dự án của châu Âu của chương trình Clean Aviation ( Máy bay sạch ) mà Collins Aerospace cũng đang tích cực tham gia, chẳng hạn như dự án động cơ 1 megawatt nằm trong dự án mang tên SWITCH với các đối tác châu Âu. Động cơ này được phát triển ở châu Âu và vào năm 2024 sẽ cho bay thử trên một máy bay có gắn động cơ của Pratt và Whitney, tức là máy bay hybrid điện-xăng.Như vậy là sự tham gia của tập đoàn RTX vào việc phi carbon hóa máy bay, hướng tới mục tiêu của năm 2050, đã thật sự bắt đầu ngay từ bây giờ với các chuyến bay thử vào năm 2024.”Cũng theo ông Etienne Gomez, loại động cơ điện 1 megawatt hiện giờ chủ yếu được phát triển cho các phi cơ bay đường ngắn:“Trên nguyên tắc loại động cơ điện 1 megawatt có thể được sử dụng cho các máy bay trong các chuyến bay thương mại, nhưng hiện giờ loại động cơ này được phát triển cho các loại máy bay thương gia (business jet), hay máy bay khu vực, những loại máy bay mà mức tiêu thụ chung là 10 megawatt. Loại động cơ điện 1 megawatt tham gia vào việc kết hợp động cơ điện-xăng. Hiện giờ chúng tôi tập trung phát triển các động cơ điện từ 100 kw đến 1 megawatt, nhưng sau này sẽ phát triển các động cơ điện có công suất mạnh hơn.Ngoài việc nghiên cứu về động cơ điện, chúng tôi tiếp tục nghiên cứu về việc pha trộn hai động cơ nhiệt-điện để làm sao động cơ nhiệt tiêu thụ nhiên liệu ít, nhất nhằm đạt mục tiêu giảm 30% mức tiêu thụ.”Rolls-Royce của Anh, với dự án UltraFan và Pratt&Whitney của Mỹ, với dự án động cơ tái sử dụng hơi nước thải ra từ quá trình đốt cháy nhiên liệu, đang nghiên cứu chế tạo các động cơ tiết kiệm nhiên liệu trong tương lai. Tại triển lãm Le Bourget vừa qua, công ty khởi nghiệp của Pháp Voltaero, chuyên phát triển các máy bay nhỏ hybrid, đã giới thiệu kiểu phi cơ đã hoàn chỉnh, loại bay bay 5 chỗ mang tên Cassio 330, mà họ hy vọng sẽ sản xuất hàng loạt vào năm 2025. Trước mắt, Voltoero đã nhận được hơn 200 đơn đặt hàng tạm thời cho kiểu máy bay này. Vận hành giống như xe hơi hybrid, máy bay Cassio 330 chạy bằng điện khi cất cánh và hạ cánh, nên rất êm và khi đang bay sẽ chạy bằng động cơ xăng và nếu cần thì sạc thêm điện cho bình điện.Về lâu dài, Voltaero dự kiến phát triển một động cơ nhiệt chạy bằng nhiên liệu không có nguồn gốc hóa thạch, rồi bằng hydro “xanh”, cho những chuyến bay hoàn toàn không phát thải khí CO2.

Aviation Week Network's James Pozzi, Sean Broderick and Dan Williams discuss the latest updates around the Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine fixes and the continuing AOG Technics undocumented parts saga.

Air New Zealand will be putting its Auckland to Hobart and Auckland to Seoul services on hold from April, as the airline scrambles to make schedule changes in response to maintenance issues with certain engines. Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney disclosed earlier this year that it has a problem with its Geared Turbo-Fan engines. While it does not affect the engines' safety, it does require a revised maintenance plan. The new plan means Air New Zealand could have as many as four aircraft grounded at a time - impacting schedules. Chief executive Greg Foran spoke to Corin Dann.

Show Notes: Carolyn Gibson, a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe, has had a diverse and different path since graduating from the university. She initially wanted to be an ambassador, but realized that she wouldn't be a great ambassador to the United States due to her Dutch passport and not agreeing with the U.S. foreign policy. Instead, she decided to go into international aid and development. She tapped into the Harvard network to find information about Europe and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. She worked as a speechwriter for the High Commissioner herself, Madame Agata, and later landed a three-month internship with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Carolyn was encouraged to work in the field. She had been working with two Italian men from Napoli who had received funding from George Soros to start a reunification program in the former Yugoslavia. She took up the offer to start a program using CD ROMs to record the names and photographs of children displaced during the war and make them available in UNHCR offices in the war zone for parents to find their children's homes. She talks about the importance of International laws for protecting and helping refugees, and how the Harvard network can help alumni find positions.  Working in Yugoslavia during the War Carole recounts her experience in former Yugoslavia, where she helped reunite children with their parents. She experienced disillusionment with the war and the profiteering surrounding it, which led to loss of life and inappropriate media coverage. She talks about smuggling and how the role of the UN. Carolyn met her future husband, Trevor Gibson, who worked for the UN Fire and Rescue Service in Syria, which was a cowboy unit that was on the front lines, running ambulances and stopping fighting. Carolyn talks about the bias in the media and how  a lack of willingness to understand and inappropriate media coverage contributed to her disillusionment. They decided to leave Yugoslavia, and Carolyn was offered a post in East Africa helping reunite parents and their children after the Rwandan genocide. She and her husband eventually decided to return to the States in 1995, but decided to move to Scotland where her husband decided to pursue a law degree in Birmingham, UK. They found themselves in a city that was similar to the Detroit of the UK, with car manufacturers and coal mining where Carolyn worked as a copywriter for nonprofit organizations before she earned a scholarship to an MBA program from Warwick University.  Working in Consulting at Deloitte Carolyn talks about her experience of working in the management consulting practice of Deloitte. She started with Deloitte's program leadership practice and later worked with a child support agency. Carolyng and her husband decided to stay in Birmingham to settle down and have children. She then moved to a local government practice with Deloitte. They set up the first contact center for multiple local governments in one spot, and she became a specialist in setting up cross-governmental contact centers. However, the local government practice and Deloitte's public sector practice merged, which involved a lot more travel, so Carolyn decided to become a stay-at-home mom.  Writing a Book on Teaching Languages She had been home for 10 years, running the PTA and serving on the Board of Governors for a school, and she wrote a book on teaching other languages. She shares three key tips from the book: make fun, set aside time, give children exposure as much as possible to the language they find fun.  She discusses her experiences teaching their children French and moving to France for a year. They eventually moved back to Birmingham, which she has  found to be a friendly city and a great place to raise a family. She moved out of the stay-at-home mom phase and started working in a startup tech company in Coventry, which focused on strategy execution software. She worked with top Fortune 500 companies, such as Nestle, Pratt Whitney, Societe Generale, Philips, L3, and energy companies and eventually became head of consulting. However, the company struggled to translate their investment into a working financial model, and she missed the opportunity to work with public sector organizations, but she gained their support to pursue a master's degree at Oxford, which had links to the UK Government.  Working for the U.K. Defense Ministry  After completing her master's, she worked for the Cabinet Office, particularly in the Ministry of Defense. She is in their strategic supplier program, which aims to align strategic suppliers with the UK Government's goals and vice versa. She works with Rolls Royce, a company that makes engines and E power plants for their nuclear submarines, and Babcock, helping them work at a strategic level, aligning across government, and identifying problems and improving them. Carolyn talks about her accomplishments at the Ministry of Defense and her work as a consultant, where she can make specific nudges that make a big difference. She has helped resolve major contracts and ensured that the government's goals are met. Carolyn explains the culture of a military environment, and how an open door and willingness to share information is crucial, as it allows for a more open and diverse workforce.  She found that the defense industry is highly meritocratic and open to new ideas, which is important for women in the industry. Carolyn is now considering pivoting back into the nonprofit world, particularly in the area of unconditional cash transfers, which she believes is a growing area in the United States.  Influential Courses and Professors at Harvard Carolyn shares the courses and professors at Harvard that resonated with her, including a course with Stanley Hoffmann about war, and a seminar with Rena Fonseca on India-China relations. She also shares her experiences with Stanley Hoffmann, who taught her the importance of holding onto convictions and ideas, and Rena Fonseca, who taught her the importance of perseverance and adaptability in the face of challenges.    Timestamps: 05:11 How Carolyn's involvement  with the Harvard network helped her find work 10:30 Smuggling and profiteering in war-torn Yugoslavia 13:35 Media coverage of the war that was inappropriate 21:46 Working at Deloitte 24:00 Carolyn's book on teaching kids languages  28:07 Working in strategy execution software at a tech startup 31:06 Impressions at the Ministry of Defense  CONTACT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-gibson-2579295/ Facebook: Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1992

On a busy night for earnings, we're watching shares of Microsoft, Alphabet and more after the bell. We're digging in on the numbers and bringing you all the trades. Plus RTX shares saw their worst day since early 2020 after reporting an issue with some of its Pratt & Whitney jet engines. What's next for the company, and can it rebound from here? Fast Money Disclaimer

Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film “Oppenheimer” opens this weekend. For the story behind one of America's most consequential and controversial scientific minds in his own words, listen to a mini-audio documentary about Robert Oppenheimer: his connections to the Communist party, his troubled relationship with President Truman, and the legacy of his work on the most devastating invention of the 20th century. This episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash" is sponsored by Pratt & Whitney. Pratt & Whitney's F135 Engine Core Upgrade leverages the expertise and capabilities of RTX while saving taxpayers $40B—it's the smart decision for the F-35."Follow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcdEmail comments and story suggestions to editors@realcleardefense.comSubscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash"Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, veteran affairs, and national security.

Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film “Oppenheimer” opens this weekend. For the story behind one of America's most consequential and controversial scientific minds in his own words, listen to a mini-audio documentary about Robert Oppenheimer: his connections to the Communist party, his troubled relationship with President Truman, and the legacy of his work on the most devastating invention of the 20th century. This episode of the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash" is sponsored by Pratt & Whitney. Pratt & Whitney's F135 Engine Core Upgrade leverages the expertise and capabilities of RTX while saving taxpayers $40B—it's the smart decision for the F-35."Follow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcdEmail comments and story suggestions to editors@realcleardefense.comSubscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash"Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, veteran affairs, and national security.

Prepare to be electrified by the cutting-edge world of military aviation, where the F-35 Lightning faces a unique stumbling block: its engine. We're cracking open the complexities of the Pratt Whitney F-135's cooling struggle, and how this challenge could spark an engine competition between industry titans. Strap in for a heady exploration of jet engines, their role in cooling fighter jets, and the F-35's pressing need for enhanced systems.We're not stopping at jet engines, though. You'll also get a glimpse into the world of block upgrades for the F-35, the potential game-changing ECU and PTMS upgrades from Pratt Whitney, and an innovative cooling system from Collin's Aerospace. We'll also navigate the unchartered territories of the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) and the conundrum of maintaining two different engine designs. Warning: things might get a little heated as we dive into the future of the F-35 and the rapidly evolving landscape of military aviation.To help support this podcast and become a PilotPhotog ProCast member: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1555784/supportIf you enjoy this episode, subscribe to this podcast, you can find links to most podcast streaming services here: PilotPhotog Podcast (buzzsprout.com)Sign up for the free weekly newsletter Hangar Flyingwith Tog here: https://hangarflyingwithtog.com You can check out my YouTube channel for many videos on fighter planes here:https://youtube.com/c/PilotPhotog If you'd like to support this podcast via Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/PilotPhotog And finally, you can follow me on Twitter here:https://twitter.com/pilotphotogSupport the show

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Nem találták meg Suhajda Szilárdot, befejezik a keresését Telex     2023-05-27 14:17:02     Sport Hegymászás Suhajda Szilárd Mount Everest Suhajda Szilárd az első olyan magyar hegymászó szeretett volna lenni, aki oxigénpalack és serpák nélkül jut fel a Föld legmagasabb csúcsára, a 8848 méter magas Mount Everestre. Csütörtökön érkeztek az első olyan hírek, amik azt sejtették, hogy valami baj történt, végül a keresésére indult mentőcsapat nem találta meg a hegyen, befejezték a keresését Érettségi közben rúgtak ki egy történelemtanárt Balatonalmádiban, a diákok sorfalat álltak neki 24.hu     2023-05-27 10:35:45     Belföld Oktatás Balaton Érettségi Balatonalmádi Balatonalmádiban azonnali hatállyal kirúgtak egy fiatal történelemtanárt, akinek most érettségizik az osztálya – írja a 444. Milkovics Márton a. Fordul a kamatciklus a világban? G7     2023-05-27 13:03:55     Gazdaság Kamat Az előző időszak masszív kamatemelései után a fejlett gazdaságokban tetőzött vagy hamarosan tetőzik a szigorítási ciklus, a piacok már a várható kamatcsökkentésekre fókuszálnak. Két elsős osztály indulna, de mindkét tanítónő távozott a hosszúhetényi általános iskolából 444.hu     2023-05-27 10:55:26     Karrier A párezres településen közös gondolkodást és gyertyagyújtást szerveztek az iskola udvarára. Vészjósló hír érkezett a nyaralóknak: repülőjáratok ezreit törölhetik a nyáron Portfolio     2023-05-27 13:25:00     Gazdaság USA Repülőgép Generáció Olyan gyakran szorulnak karbantartásra az amerikai Pratt & Whitney által gyártott új generációs hajtóművek, hogy a nyáron legalább 3000 repülőgépjáratot kell miattuk törölni – írja a hvg.hu. Moszkva közölte: ezt kéri az ukránoktól, és cserébe befejezi a háborút napi.hu     2023-05-27 11:48:00     Külföld Ukrajna háború Interjú Moszkva Kijev Mihail Galuzin orosz külügyminiszter-helyettes az orosz állami hírügynökségnek adott interjújában sorolta fel az orosz vezetés Kijevvel szemben támasztott követelményeit, mi mindent kérnek azért, hogy befejezzék Ukrajna támadását. A vb alatt gúnyolták, most aranyat érő gólokat lő Rangadó     2023-05-27 14:04:40     Foci Hollandia Katar Argentína A katari vébén sokáig csak az elrontott ziccereivel szolgáltatott témát, hogy aztán a hollandok ellen ő juttassa Argentínát a négy közé az utolsó tizenegyessel. A világbajnokság megnyerése pedig hatalmas energiákat szabadított fel Lautaro Martínezben, aki idén két döntőbe is eljutott az Interrel. A denevér rejtheti a megoldást az öregedés ellen Magyar Mezőgazdaság     2023-05-27 12:35:00     Életmód Mezőgazdaság A denevérek segítenek a kártevők elleni védekezésben, a növények beporzásában és a magvak terjesztésében. Egy új kutatás szerint azonban a denevérek lehetnek a kulcsa a további gyulladások és az időskori betegségek terápiájának. Ukrajna készen áll a régóta beharangozott ellentámadásra vg.hu     2023-05-27 11:53:24     Külföld Ukrajna Kijev A katonák kiképzése megtörtént, a nyugati fegyverek megérkeztek, Kijev felkészült a harcra. F1: Ricciardo bejelentette visszatérési szándékát Vezess     2023-05-27 11:05:20     Forma1 Ausztrália Max Verstappen Daniel Ricciardo Daniel Ricciardo elárulta, készen áll arra, hogy 2024-ben ismét aktív része legyen a Forma-1-es mezőnynek. Az ausztrált Max Verstappen is támogatja. Dróntámadás érte egy orosz olajvezeték adminisztratív épületét az orosz határon HírTV     2023-05-27 13:34:00     Külföld Drón Fehéroroszország Dróntámadás rongálta meg az orosz-fehérorosz határon egy orosz olajvezeték adminisztratív épületét. Mi lesz veled, Békéscsaba? Mi lesz veled, Dorog? Büntető.com     2023-05-27 13:38:15     Foci Hétvége Magyar foci Békés NB II Békéscsaba Dorog Két patinás, nagy múltú futballklub veszítette el másodosztályú tagságát a mögöttünk hagyott hétvégén. Az – egy ideig biztosan – utolsó 20 csapatos NB II két biztos kiesője a Békéscsaba és a Dorog, és amíg egyik számára szép kihívásnak ígérkezik az azonnali visszajutás, a másik számára az felnőttcsapat létezése is veszélybe került. Suhajda Szilárd a Mount Everest harmadik magyar áldozata, és egy nagy rejtély Magyar Nemzet     2023-05-27 16:49:57     Sport Hegymászás Suhajda Szilárd Mount Everest Földünk legmagasabb, 8848 méteres hegycsúcsa már több mint háromszáz hegymászó életét vette el. Kellemes, szép idővel veszi kezdetét a nyár Kiderül     2023-05-27 13:41:49     Időjárás Június első napjaira lecseng a záporokkal, zivatarral tarkított idő, sok napsütéssel, 30 fok körüli hőmérséklettel kezdődik az első nyári hónap.

Catherine Fournier, née le 7 avril 1992 à Sainte-Julie, est une femme politique québécoise. Députée de la circonscription de Marie-Victorin de 2016 à 2021, elle devient la plus jeune femme élue députée à l'Assemblée nationale du Québec. À la suite des élections municipales de 2021, elle est élue mairesse de la Ville de Longueuil, devenant ainsi la plus jeune femme à occuper ce poste. Son objectif présent est d'obtenir la désignation de "zone d'innovation" de la part du Gouvernement du Québec. La ville est considérée comme l'un des trois pôles aérospatiaux majeurs au Québec, aux côtés de Saint-Laurent et de Mirabel. Elle abrite la plus grande école de formation en aérotechnique liée au Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, et les deux principaux acteurs de l'industrie, Pratt & Whitney et Héroux-Devtek., y sont situés. Catherine souhaite attirer les entreprises innovantes pour développer les technologies de l'avenir dans le domaine de l'aviation, en particulier les technologies vertes telles que les moteurs hybrides, les moteurs électriques et les combustibles bios. Cette initiative est considérée comme très prometteuse, et l'espoir est de convaincre des entreprises avancées dans ce domaine de s'établir à Longueuil. Catherine Fournier - Facebook / Linkedin . Animée par Réjean Gauthier depuis 2017, l'émission « Dans la jungle des affaires » explore le côté humain et aventureux du monde des affaires à travers les yeux d'entrepreneurs et gestionnaires d'entreprises. Connue pour son approche ludique, ses histoires captivantes et ses anecdotes surprenantes, l'émission met en lumière les individus à la tête d'entreprises d'ici et d'ailleurs. Chaque épisode se concentre sur un sujet différent, allant du repreneuriat à la gestion de crises, en passant par les défis et les exploits de l'entrepreneuriat.  Créez des liens avec d'autres entrepreneurs en rejoignant notre communauté sur Facebook & LinkedIn. Cette émission est produite par BRONKO MARKETING INC.

Legend says that a Bigfoot can grow up to 15 feet… but they usually just have two… Today we are discussing the Gasquatch in Idabel, Oklahoma.   For a Bigfoot sighting right from the road, head to Gasquatch in Idabel. Featuring one of the world's tallest statues of this legendary creature, Gasquatch is not your average highway stop. While you can fuel up and grab some of the best burgers and chicken-fried steak around, you can also view a collection of vintage cars and pickup souvenirs at this stop.  Order up a burger or your favorite diner foods from The Cave Cafe, then take a stroll through the on-site Phila Elite Car Collection Museum. Featuring approximately 15 vintage vehicles and a collection of old neon signs, you won't want to miss the muscle cars on exhibit. Pick up everything from souvenir t-shirts and stickers to stuffed animals and glassware in the Gasquatch gift shop. This Idabel pit stop is one you don't want to miss.     Discover flower power in Idabel, Oklahoma, the "Dogwood Capital of Oklahoma", where springtime tours showcase the area's champion blooming dogwood trees. See Native arts from Oklahoma and all over the world at the Museum of the Red River, where visitors can also view a dinosaur skeleton discovered in the area. Birders flock to the Red Slough Wildlife Management Area, containing almost 6,000 acres of marshes and wetlands with nearly 300 species of birds, including the rare white ibis and wood stork.   Redbone Indian Tacos is a food truck based in Medicine Park, OK serving up Indian tacos, buffalo wings, and more. Available for events and catering.     News Story from the Daily Oklahoman   Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies. Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut.   Tinker Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force base, with tenant U.S. Navy and other Department of Defense missions, located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, surrounded by Del City, Oklahoma City, and Midwest City.     Subscribe to the Only in OK Show.   #TravelOK #onlyinokshow #Oklahoma #MadeinOklahoma #oklaproud #podcast #okherewego #traveloklahoma

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Last time we spoke about the battle of the Bismarck Sea. Though it was called a battle, what occurred at the Bismarck Sea was more of a catastrophic slaughter and a showcase of how the Japanese were no longer capable of performing offensives. The allies performed skip bombing and mast head bombing techniques against a convoy heading for Lae to deadly effect. 4 destroyers, 8 transports, 20 fighters were destroyed and nearly 3000 Japanese were killed. The allied pilots were ordered to give no mercy to the enemy and many reluctantly attacked the survivors of the shipwreck carnage. Their commanders justified the actions stating the men would have been landed and put right onto the front lines in New Guinea causing even more suffering. Yet as magnificent a victory as it was for the allies, it certainly was not the only one at this time for another major naval battle was occurring in the solomons This episode is the Battle of Blackett Strait  Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    Yet before we can jump back into the turbulent seas of the south Pacific we will talk a bit more about the theater of the Pacific War that goes far, often too forgotten, that of China.  Its been quite sometime since we were last in China. Now stating the Second sino-Japanese war is complicated is an overstatement. To simplify it somewhat know this, there were 22 major engagements between the NRA and IJA during the war. One of these engagements is known as the Battle of West Hubei, which was one of four major battles that took place in Hubei. Now in July of 1938 the IJA Dai-Jyu-ichi gun “11th army” was formed under the Japanese central China area army. The purpose of such a formation was to conquer and occupy central provinces in China, specifically those between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The 11th army had played a crucial role during the battle of Wuhan and had seen quite a list of differing commanders. In December of 1942 Lt General Isamu Yokoyama took control of the 11th army and he set his sights on various targets. But before he could unleash his forces, Yokoyama was dealing with major sabotage operations against his main base. And these sabotage operations were not being performed by the NRA, no they were being performed by the CCP's New Fourth Army. Now the CCP had limited actions against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Although the press, such as the New York times had parroted some CCP propaganda insisting Mao and his forces were tying down 80 percent of Japanese forces in China, this is not at all true. The CCP did not have the means to do this, nor did they even want to. Mao Zedong himself was not an all-powerful leader at the offset of the Pacific War. The USSR favored his colleague, Wang Ming who was known as one of the 28 Bolsheviks, ie: moscow educated leaders. Mao referred to these people as “ the dogmatist faction”. Mao also had to deal with empiricist faction members such as the former party leader Zhou Enlai and other CCP military commanders such as Peng Dehuai and Chen Yi. In February of 1942 the CCP began the “rectification Movement” known as (Zhengfeng) and on February 1st Mao Zedong have a speech in Yanan calling for a study of the CCP's history and suggesting “the party not only needs democracy but needs centralization even more”. The roots of Zhengfeng indicate a Confucian philosophy emphasized the importance of ethical education “The cultivation of the person depends on rectifying the mind,” Confucius had instructed his followers”. Mao organized the Rectification Meetings expecting CCP members to indulge in self-criticism and confession. As you can imagine there were nefarious reasons for this. Mao alongside his close allie Kang SHen, the CCP's ruthless head of intelligence took charge of the Central General Study committee and began to get false confessions using psychological torture. Kang's methodology would define Mao's growing grip over the CCP and the future of it. Residents of Yanan would recount “the valleys and cave outside the town held victims of psychological bullying who produced screams and howls like wolves every night. Suicides occured often, one victim who survived swallowing glass was immediately forced to write self-criticism”. By 1943 the Rectification campaign had become a system of mass arrest, torture and execution. In essence it was a purge that carried on well into 1944 using false confessions from prisoners who were trying to save their own lives. It is estimated 10,000 CCP members, many of which were former inhabitants of KMT held areas were executed. Wang Ming, Mao's primary target at the time was spared, but he alongside the 28 Bolsheviks were forever sidelined, but hell better then being dead I guess? Meanwhile Zhou Enlai and the empiricists swung firmly behind Mao fearing for their lives. The Rectification movement was to be one of many themes played out by Mao Zedong. There was a cycle throughout his reign where intellectuals were invited to be open, then the party turned against them, they were destroyed by self-criticism, paraded as criminals, tortured until they revealed traitors real or not and executed. As Mao put it in August of 1943 “It is not good to correct too early or too late, Too early … the campaign cannot unfold properly; and too late … the damage [to torture victims] will be too profound.” One of the 28 Bolsheviks, Wang Shiwei who worked as a journalist for Liberation Daily wrote an article titled “Wild Lilies” in 1942, which criticized Mao Zedong for womanizing and enjoying too many luxuries. He spoke about how Mao took an ambulance sent as a gift by the Chinese New York Laundry workers to the CCP to carry wounded troops and instead used it as a private transport for himself as his 23 year old mistress, actress Jiang Qing. Mao would later marry her after leaving his third wife He Zizhen who he had 5 children with. Well Wang Shiwei was expelled from the CCP on Mao's orders in October 1942 having been found guilty of treason and would be executed in 1947 on Mao's orders. Anyways, enough sidelining about Mao, closer to the story at hand Mao had unleashed a propaganda campaign promoting the false image of the CCP's war effort against the Japanese. The KMT actually captured documents with orders from Mao which explained his thoughts on the war “The Sino-Japanese War affords our party an excellent opportunity for expansion. Our fixed policy should be 70 percent expansion, 20 percent dealing with the Kuomintang and 10 percent resisting Japan.” Between 1937-1940 the CCP grew its 8th army from 45,000 to 400,000. Meanwhile the 4th army increased from 15,000 to 100,000. The CCP's lionshare of war effort was aimed at the KMT but they did perform considerable actions against Japan. The Fourth Army was led by Commander Chen Yi and he had an irregular force known as the 15th brigade of the 5th division led by Commander Li Xiannian. Their arms and ammunition were self manufactured and though they had enough of them, the quality suffered heavily. Their main base was in Northern Jiangsu, but they also operated in central Jiangsu, northern and southern ANhui, northern Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. They were all over the place specifically to thwart any efforts of the NRA from encircling and destroying them. They also clashed with the NRA much more than they did with the Japanese. Despite that, the 5th division of Li Xiannians forces had fought tenaciously during the 1942 battle of the Dwarf Mountain. The CCP forces defeated the forces of Wang Jinwei and captured Mienyang in the process. This success however drew the 11th army in who carried out attacks from the north to drive the CCP out, but the CCP troops dug in and would not budge. Yokoyama sought to surprise the CCP menace by attacking their positions rear from Yueyang and Jingzhou. The idea was to grab the CCP's attention while his 58th division launched an attack against Mienyang. In early february the 40th and 13th divisions began to raise their activity at Yeuyang and Jingzhou to deceive the CCP into believing a major offensive was about to be made against Changsha, which had been the crux of the IJA for a long time. On February 15th the 40th crossed the Yangtze river and began to attack Zhuhezhen, Jianli County and Hubei. Meanwhile the 13th division advanced east sneaking over the Yangtze river from Shashi and marched through a gap between the CCP positions in Jiangnan. The Chinese defenders were taken by complete surprise and it would be the 87th army garrison who would be first hit. The defenders were taking heavy losses and had to pull back to Mienyang. Soon the 40th and 13th divisions were closing in on Fengkow and Fuchang as the CCP resisted their advances killing 354 and wounded 890 Japanese. The final phase of the operation saw the 58th division begin a march south upon Mienyang, enjoying aerial support in the form of the 44th air regiment. The CCP's fortified positions were obliterating and the defenders were forced to disperse and escape before encirclements could be made. Many would manage to avoid capture by disguising themselves as civilians, but this only prompted Yokoyama to enact intense search and pursuit actions lasting into late march. The CCP leader Wang Haishan along with countless CCP troops were captured by these means. What was the battle of west hubei resulted in a mixed victory for either side. Many in the allied camp reported the Chinese had achieved a major strategic victory. However they paid a heavier price than the Japanese, it is estimated the CHinese had nearly 24,000 dead and 18,000 wounded while the Japanese had 25,000 casualties. Alongside this Historian Barbara Tuchmen states “the Japanese withdrew without pursuit from what appeared to have been a training and foraging offensive to collect rice and river shipping”. Thus it perhaps should be better called a tactical draw between the two forces.   Japan had just lost 4 destroyers, 8 transports and the lives of 3000 or so men. These figures did not even count the numerous sailors and irreplaceable pilots lost. The battle of the Bismarck Sea was strategically a defeat for Japan, second only to that of Coral Sea and it confirmed their inability to control the air in the region and ensured the continued isolation of their forces in New Guinea. In many ways New Guinea was facing the same fate that had befallen Guadalcanal. The Japanese logistics simply could not stretch that far and the allies were strangling their enemy the same way siege warfare had been done since ancient times. Japanese commanders would never again send transports or capital ships into the waters off Papua. From this point on the garrisons on New Guinea would only receive meager supplies brought via submarine or barges, completely inadequate to the task. Thousands of Japanese troops manning the defenses at Lae and Salamaua would basically be left on their own to face a growing allied advance. General Douglas MacArthur went on the recond to say “the battle of the Bismarck Sea was a decisive aerial engagement of the war and marked the end of the Japanese offensive in the Southwest Pacific”. For those Japanese survivors who did manage to land on friendly territory after the slaughter, they were finished as combatants. Lieutenant Masamichi Kitamoto observed survivors coming ashore at Tuluvu on the west of New Britain and had this to say “Their eyes were glassy and deeply sunk into their faces. All were jittery … as if they were seeing a horrible dream … a pitiful scene of a vanquished and defeated army.” Despite the amazing victory, MacArthur's forces could not capitalize on the success and perform a major offensive against Lae. The major reason for this was MacArthur lacked amphibious forces to support the overland march through New Guinea. Since mid 1943 MacArthur's forces had been advancing up the northern coast of New Guinea while a amphibious force was in the making. Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey took command of what would become the 7th amphibious force on january 10th of 1943. Barbey had immediately hit it off with MacArthur in a similar fashion to how General Kenney had hit it off with MacArthur. However Barbey had pretty much nothing to work with. There were no amphibious training facilities, therefore one of his first actions was to establish some at Toobul Bay near the mouth of the Brisbane river and point Stephens. Meanwhile MacArthur requested small craft and transports, as aside from his command everyone else was receiving such equipment en masse, obviously because Europe and the central pacific had been priorities. As Australian and American troops began to arrive to MacArthurs command he began to demand they train to debark from larger ships down cargo nets onto smaller craft. But Barbey did not have any attack transports (APA), which were key for these types of operations. The first Landing ship tanks (LST)s and Landing craft Tanks (LCT)s would not arrive until mid January. Until he received these he began training up the Landing craft infantry (LCI) by tossing nets over cliffs to replicate the debarkation from large ships. By march 15th of 1943 Admiral King signed off that the Southwest Pacific force was to be the 7th fleet, under the command of Admiral Arthur Carpender. This did not go over well with MacArthur who believed quote “much like his predecessor, Vice Admiral Leary, Carpenter seemed to be working more for the Navy rather than MacArthur”. All was not well in the court of camelot. PT Boats of the MacArthur fleet would once in awhile engage an enemy submarine, but they usually got away with ease. Bad weather, large coral reefs made it sort of a nightmare for the smaller ships and PT boats were very fragile, striking just a log could knock them out. But they were enough to scare the Japanese from using too many barges and thus were sort of a fleet in being. The PT boats would have something of a surface monopoly in the Solomon sea for 6 months, constantly looking for action and finding none. Admiral Carpender encouraged their use in his command as they had shown their effectiveness during the battle of the Bismarck Sea.  Now back over in Rabaul, Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka remained in command of naval forces at Rabaul and had the responsibility for the defense of the central solomons. He knew he could not expect much help from the combined fleet and definitely nothing from the Army so he set about strengthening the air defenses at Rabaul and rapidly tried to develop airfields at Munda and Vila-Stanmore. Alongside this he performed a survey of Santa Isabel island incase it could also provide an additional strip. With over 200 fighters and bombers under his thumb he hoped to hold the Central Solomons with air power alone, but he would be horribly overwhelmed. Against his command, Admiral Fitch had some 316 aircraft of various types on Guadalcanal and the Cactus air force could easily be reinforced from a pool of 200 more aircraft from Espiritu Santo and New Caledonia. And here we have another decisive advantage coming to the allies, that in technology. New aircraft were coming to the Pacific such as the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair which were significantly more advanced than the Zero fighter in terms of speed, armament, ceiling and rate of climb, the key parameters for a good fighter. The Hellcat was the next generation for carrier fighters and the Corsair was a gull-winged fighter bomber issued to marine fighters on Guadalcanal. Just for you tech geeks, the Hellcat was a very large aircraft for its type, weighing 1200 pounds unloaded, powered by a 2000 horsepower Pratt & Whitney engine that could climb 3500ft per minute. It held a flying range of 1000 miles, had a cockpit slickly faired into the fuselage and heavily armored. It carried 6 electrically charged .50 caliber guns and twice the ammunition to its predecessor the Wildcat. While the Wildcat lagged behind the Zero, the Hellcat outdid her in speed and dive. As Bill Davis said upon first encountering a Hellcat “the plan was a monster. From the moment I started the engine I was thrilled and amazed, there was a thunderous backfire as flames shot out of the exhaust pipe. A sailor with a fire extinguisher moved toward the plane, but the engine quickly caught and the flames disappeared as the engine started to purr with a mighty roar. I could feel the power through the throttle as well as my ears and every quaking fiber of my body”. In contrast, the Japanese continued to employ the same types of aircraft knowing full well their weaknesses and knowing full well the Americans were developing new models to counter them. The only advantage the Japanese still enjoyed was their airstrips laid out all over the South Pacific, with Munda base being a particularly important one to allow bombers from Rabaul or Bougainville to stop and refuel for striking missions.  Munda's airfield was attacked countless times by naval and aerial bombardment which filled her up with holes, but just as fast as they were maid her Japanese construction crews filled the craters with crushed coral and in a matter of minutes or hours the strip was made operational again. As Admiral Ainsworth said “The fact is inescapable that the Japs have gone right ahead and built two airfields in spite of constant bombing by aircraft and two bombardments by surface vessels. We may destroy large quantities of gasoline and stores, and we may render these fields unusable at critical times, but the only real answer is to take the fields away from them.” Regardless of the lack of success neutralizing the airstrip for good, Admiral Halsey had his eye on Munda from the offset of finding out the Japanese had begun constructing an airfield upon it. Halsey saw it as a very valuable new site offering terrain suitable for a large bomber field. In order to invade it simply needed to be pounded to dust and if Aerial bombarding was not enough to do the job he was willing to navally bombard it to hell if he must. The Japanese had become emboldened by the increasing failures of the allies to hit their airfields at Munda and Vila-Stanmore and allowed cargo and troopships to make runs between them and Rabaul more frequently. Thus far only piecemeal attacks had been made against either outpost, but Hasley was planning to send a larger force with considerably larger firepower. On february 27th, Halsey appointed Rear Admiral Aaron Merrill's Task Force 68 to smash Munda and Vila-Stanmore. Task force 68 consisted of 3 light cruisers: Montpelier, Cleveland and Denver and 7 destroyers: Waller, Cony, Conway, Fletcher, Radford, Nicholas and O'Bannon. Merrill divided his force into two groups, the first group of 4 destroyers led by Captain Robert Briscoe would hit Munda, while the rest led by Merrill himself would hit Vila-Stanmore. On March 4th Merrill departed Espíritu Santo heading for the new allied base at the Russell islands. Merrill intended to use the same tactics employed during the last two bombardment attempts back in January. Navigation was to be by SG Radar, gunfire to be continuous after the first ranging salvos were fired and he would use all ships in a column formation to fire simultaneously to limit the time period of time they had to stay in the enemy waters. By the afternoon of March 5th, Merrills force left the Russells en route to their departure point just 7 miles north of Daisen island. During the night the 4 destroyers detached to go hit Munda while Merrills group continued en course towards the Kula Gulf, believing they would manage to do so undetected. However that night the IJN destroyers Murasame and Minegumo were bringing supplies from their base at Vila to Kolombangara. These 2 ships were part of the 2nd fleets Destroyer squadron 4 under the command of Captain Masao Tachibana. They had taken their route through the Vella Gulf and Blackett Strait and were going to return to the Shortland Islands via the shorter route through the Kula Gulf. The Japanese destroyers were discovered by American aerial reconnaissance prompting Admiral Merrill to engage. The Americans estimated the Japanese destroyers were going to reach Blackett strait at about 11:30, while Merrill's schedule called for him to make a course change to enter Kula Gulf by 12:17. The distance from the mouth of Kula Gulf to the eastern entrance of Blackett strait was around 20 miles thus it seemed to Merrill to be senseless to change his plans and increase their speed, he did not think they could catch them in time. Thus he opted to simply carry out his original bombardment plan before the Munda group did their which would raise the alarm for the nearby Japanese vessels in the strait. But After Captain Tachibana delivered his supplies he had chosen to take the shorter route back through the Kula Gulf which would fatefully shove him into Merrills position. Just after midnight, Merrills 3 light cruisers were swinging into Kula Gulf while his destroyers detached to perform an advance sweep of the Gulf. Meanwhile the two Japanese destroyers were coming in from the opposite direction along the east coast of Kolombangara when at 12:53, the radar aboard Montpelier detached them northeast of Sasamboki Island. The ships all began to converge on the contact as they tracked the enemy, training their guns on the enemy. Now Radar controlled gunnery was still new to the US Navy and thus the first barrage tended to target the nearest and same target. This was actually a tactical deficiency that had given the IJN an advantage on multiple occasions. At a minute after 1am, the Montpelier broke the silence of the night and opened fire with her main batteries, followed by the Cleveland and Denver. The cruisers 6 inch guns were firing at a round of 11,000 yards battering her. Their fire was concentrated upon the Murasame and their radar controlled gunnery successfully straddled the destroyer. In just 5 minutes a salvo hit caused a large explosion on the Murasame with large fires erupting across her deck.  While this was going on the Waller launched a volley of 5 torpedoes and scored a hit on the Murasame causing a tremendous explosion breaking her in two as she quickly sank. Apparently the explosion from the torpedo hit was heard by Briscoes force around 25 miles away over at Munda. Merrill then directed fire upon the Minegumo as it tried to keep a northerly course while returning fire. After charging north for 4 miles under intense fire the Minegumo came to a stop suffering from heavy damage. The American destroyers tried to get into position to fire torpedoes, but by the time they did the Minegumo was sinking. Merrills cruisers likewise had begun firing starshells over the Blackett Strait and the illumination indicating there were no more enemy vessels. Merrill force began their bombardment of Vila-Stanmore at 1:25 targeting supply dumps, runways, bivouacs and the various aircraft they could see on the ground. Using aid from their aerial reconnaissance they were able to score many hits on emplacements such as shelter tents, barracks, ammunition dumps, grounded planes and such. It was very successful causing a lot of damage and they knocked out the shore batteries that tried to respond. By 1:40 Merrill ordered a withdrawal through the North Georgia Sound. 174 IJN personnel had been killed, of which 128 were aboard the Murasame. There was two submarines the USS Grayback and Grampus that had been assigned to support Merrills force and the Grampus would never return from her voyage. It is possible during the battle one of the IJN destroyers sunk her, but her wreckage has never been found. At the same time the battle was occurring, Captain Robert Briscoe's group proceeded unmolested to to their bombardment point. At 1:04 they group began to hear and saw the firing flashes from the battle and alongside this unidentified aircraft were coming over Rendova island prompting their caution. Nonetheless by 1:39 they began their bombardment striking the center of the landing strip. By 1:50 the bombardment ceased and they made their withdrawal. Although the airstrips were repaired quite easily, the loss of 2 destroyers in a fast fashion was a bad omen for the Japanese. During March of 1943 allied bombers would make sporadic attacks on the Japanese airfields over Ballalae, Kahili, Shortland Island and Munda. Alongside this allied photo reconnaissance got a good picture of Japanese movements between all their bases and this soon revealed a new Seaplane base being built off southern Bougainville prompted a dawn fighter attack on the 28th. Led by Captain Lanphier of the 70th fighter squadron, 6 P-38's destroyed 8 Japanese seaplanes. Every month brought the Japanese more losses, whether it be shipping, men or materials they simply could not afford, while the American production capabilities were only growing bigger. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Japanese had a mixed success in central China and a rather small, but terribly loss in the Solomons. They simply could not afford any more losses, for each one was drawing them ever closer to losing the war. 

The Business of Meetings – Episode 153 – The Power of Storytelling with Andy Henriquez Today we have the great pleasure of speaking with Andy Henriquez, founder of Master Storyteller Academy! Andy's journey has been an interesting one. He is an amazing storyteller, and is adept at linking his stories to the business! He joins us today to tell his story and share his secrets to success. Andy's bio: Andy Henriquez, also known as the “master storyteller” and founder of the Master Storyteller Academy, is a business storytelling coach, keynote speaker, and author of the game-changing book, Show Up For Your Life. A sought-after speaker, Andy has been featured in Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur Magazine and has made several national television appearances. Andy trains corporations, non-profit organizations, and entrepreneurs how to unlock the power of story to elevate their brands, build greater connections and increase revenue. Some of his past clients include Office Depot Foundation, Accenture, Pratt & Whitney, NASA, and Bacardi, to name a few. Whether standing on stage and captivating an audience or conducting workshops and training, Andy is known for transforming audiences. When he's not on stage, Andy loves spending time with his wife Casandra, and his daughter, Ava Skye. Andy's story Andy grew up in a Caribbean household where his mom taught him that the key to success lay in getting a good education, and a good job. He studied hard, graduated summa cum laude, did a master's degree in corporate accounting, and passed the CPA exam. However, when he started working as an associate for a company, he was miserable and felt that there had to be more. So he spent the next year thinking about becoming a speaker and coach. In 2004, things shifted and he decided to take a chance and act on faith instead of fear. He had no idea what would come next, but he was sure he could no longer keep doing what he had done before. Life will test you Whenever you make a life-changing decision, that decision will get tested! On the day Andy was ready to resign, he got offered a promotion! Even though part of him wanted to play things safe and stay on, he followed through and left corporate America.  Costa Rica A family friend heard that Andy was looking for an opportunity. He said that Costa Rica was growing and held many possibilities for the future. He invited Andy to join him in a real estate project there. When Andy arrived in Costa Rica, things looked good so he invested most of his savings in some land on which they intended to erect some pre-manufactured homes and he returned to America. Things seemed to be going well for the first few months, but then Andy learned that his friend had lost all his money on a bad short-term investment with which he had hoped to get a quick return. A big lesson The lesson Andy learned from that experience was to expect to get tested.  Understanding the negativity of those who love you When people who love you speak negatively about a risky entrepreneurial idea you've come up with, understand that they only do so because they want to protect you. They project their fears and limiting beliefs onto you because they love you. When that happens, know that you do not have to accept what they say, nor do you have to apply their limitations in your life. Learning from failures Some of the best lessons entrepreneurs ever learn come from the failures and the challenges they experience. A key to success Andy learned that one of the keys to success lies in knowing that life is rigged for you to succeed. So when life punches you in the face, don't throw in the towel! Understand that it is part of your journey to success. Investing in yourself Les Brown is one of the top five speakers in the world. He had a massive impact on Andy's life and taught him that you have to invest in yourself at the level at which you expect results. Through Les, Andy learned that the more you pay for coaching, the more you pay attention! The power of storytelling Attention is the new currency. Andy has found that the best leaders are the best storytellers because storytelling is one of the best ways to capture people's attention, connect with them emotionally, and direct their attention to action.  Connect with Eric On LinkedIn On Facebook On Instagram On Website Connect with Andy Henriquez On his website On Master Storyteller Academy On LinkedIn On Instagram (@showupforyourlife) On all social media: @AndyHenriquez Books mentioned: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley The Millionaire Mindset by Thomas J. Stanley Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

On today's episode, we sit down with AJ Piplica, cofounder and CEO of Hermeus Corporation. The Atlanta startup aims to make hypersonic air travel a reality before the decade is out. AJ dialed into Pathfinder straight from the belly of the beast, i.e., Hermeus's factory in Atlanta, which was abuzz with employees and machines whirling in the background. Today's episode is brought to you by Altek Space.What is Hermeus up to?The Hermeus team is focused on shrinking the globe by developing the world's fastest passenger aircraft. The timeline for that = 2029. In the meantime,  Hermeus recently selected Pratt & Whitney's F100 turbofan for integration into its hypersonic engine, a move that the company claims will save it billions in R&D costs and years of schedule. Also in recent memory, Hermeus successfully demonstrated a turbojet to ramjet transition with its Chimera engine. Finally, Hermeus raised a $100M Series B last March to develop Quarterhorse and Darkhorse, its first and second hypersonic vehicles.Among other things, AJ and Ryan covered:— The startup's origin story— The roadmap: Chimera → Quarterhorse → Darkhorse → Halcyon— What's the state of hypersonics today?— How the Halcyon passenger aircraft will be designed— Derisking the business plan through iterative development and buying off the shelf— Lowering the cost of aircraft certification— Building in public and investing in marketing early on— Atlanta's talent density and Hermeus's recruiting effortsChapters02:40 – Welcome, AJ 06:02 – Hermeus's beginnings 10:49 – Rockets and ICBMs fly at hypersonic speeds...what's new here? (+ nice pun)14:24 – Why do planes fly slower today than decades ago? 20:14 – Chimera engine and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts 21:31 – Watch Chimera go turbojet –> ramjet

Join us as we speak with Mike Yost, who is a senior Aerospace Engineer at Pratt Whitney. In this episode, we discuss controls, fluid dynamics, ethics in engineering, interesting engineering problems, and more. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see / hear more like it please subscribe to Collaborative With Spencer Krause Today and get notified every time a new episode releases + support the channel!

Join us as we speak with Mike Yost, who is a senior Aerospace Engineer at Pratt Whitney. In this episode, we discuss controls, fluid dynamics, ethics in engineering, interesting engineering problems, and more. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see / hear more like it please subscribe to Collaborative With Spencer Krause Today and get notified every time a new episode releases + support the channel!

Nous discutons avec Olivier Blais de ChatGPT et de l'intelligence articielle. Qu'est-ce que ChatGPT? Nous avons posé la question à ChatGPT lui-même et voici la réponse: "Je suis un modèle de langage entraîné par OpenAI et conçu pour aider les gens à répondre à des questions et à résoudre des problèmes. Je suis une intelligence artificielle conçue pour être capable de comprendre et de répondre aux questions et aux demandes de renseignements de manière cohérente et informative. Je suis ici pour vous aider à trouver les réponses à vos questions et à résoudre vos problèmes, alors n'hésitez pas à me poser toutes les questions que vous voulez." Olivier Blais est cofondateur et VP science de la décision chez Moov AI. Il est éditeur de la norme ISO internationale qui définit la qualité des systèmes d'intelligence artificielle où il mène une équipe de 50 professionnels de l'IA de partout dans le monde.  Ses connaissances de pointe en IA et en apprentissage machine l'ont amené diriger la mise en oeuvre d'une culture des données dans différentes industries et à soutenir des projets de transformation numérique dans de nombreuses entreprises comme Pratt & Whitney, Métro, Sharethrough et Premier Tech.  Il est mentor en IA pour Creative Destruction Labs et accompagne plusieurs start-ups. Conférencier, ses sujets de choix sont comment adopter et appliquer l'IA et l'IA responsable.  Olivier est le lauréat du prestigieux prix " 30 under 30 " (Infopresse - 2019) et est coauteur d'un brevet pour un algorithme avancé qui évalue la solvabilité d'un emprunteur. Liens: ChatGPT Documentaire IA : être ou ne pas être sur ICI TOU.TV

Get expert advice on marketing your website … Employees of Pratt & Whitney in Bridgeport share what they enjoy about their job … a new cat litter manufacturing facility in Martinsburg is expected to create over 100 jobs … and “What Makes You Wonderful.”  – on today's daily304, listen here…

Ed and Tanya Beaumont founded Beaumont Machine 30 years ago in Cincinnati; the company makes Electrical Discharge Machines (EDM). In 2013, the couple sold their business, but certain circumstances led to the Beaumonts reacquiring the company and reassuming the day-to-day operation of the company.Beaumont Machine, originally Beaumont Machine Repair, serves aerospace, power generation and electronics production industries. The company started by building Fast Hole EDM in 1997 and has been specializing in EDM technology ever since.From the standard mill style EDM to machining cells with complete robotic operation to makelarge aircraft engines and launch vehicle sections, Beaumont has built machines that featured 8-foot part rotation, a robotic arm with 10-foot reach and machines as small as 36 inches in width. The company even developed a new 7-axis EDM drill."Our machine was what you would call a true race car," Ed Beaumont said. "I gave you lots of horsepower. You had 999 microseconds each way. You had up to 65 amps of power. You had capacitance up to 8.0 [μF]. So all these variables had fractions within themselves that you could make changes to; to get what you wanted."Past projects include machines for a SpaceX rocket, Lockheed Martin, Pratt Whitney and General Electric. The company has also been called upon to complete work involving "dark projects" and carbides. The work also involved rhenium, one of the rarest metals on Earth, used as an additive to tungsten and molybdenum-based alloys, and single crystals, which are materials where the entire sample has a continuous and unbroken crystal lattice to the edges of the sample with no grain boundaries.Beaumont Machine also made its mark in the EDM industry with a series of patents. One was opening up the opportunity at Pratt Whitney to put a hole over a hole, which involves shooting a metering hole and putting a diffuser shape on top. When it came time to sell Beaumont Machine, Ed and his wife, Tanya, didn't just want to cash out but see their company thrive under new ownership. According to Ed, repurchasing the company was never a part of the plan. But their vision never materialized."The vision they had for the company was opposite of what we had accomplished," Ed Beaumont said. "We [did] everything pretty much in-house that we could possibly do. That helped keep a thumb on the process itself and also the availability of components and parts and delivery for their customers. [The new owners] were trying to farm things out and it didn't go so well. It affected the outcome."Ed added that an ill-advised change in location hurt staff numbers and that the company had only placed one advertisement to sell equipment since 2013.    When Beaumont Machine was born, the goal was to be a resource for machine rebuild, retrofit service and custom machines. But the issues accumulated and the Beaumonts watched as the company they grew from the back of a pickup truck to a 21,000-square-foot shop declined. Now, the Beaumonts have regained control of the company and moved operations to a larger location outside Cincinnati to increase production and expand service capabilities. Returning to original form starts with getting word out that the Beaumonts are in charge and connecting with customers in a way that had been lost during their absence. "I look back through my notes from 2010 and 2012 and see how much communication went on with possible customers," Beaumont said. "We need to get that back."Ed Beaumont said, at its peak, the company employed 21 workers, but that number had decreased

While serving in the Army as a member of Alpha Company, 3rd US Infantry, Adam Eisenberg was one of the first people on the ground after the Pentagon was attacked on 9/11. Eisenberg has come forward as a whistleblower in recent years to detail his observations on that fateful day. Eisenberg's unit landed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, to recover bodies and participate in the clean-up. When he began looking around, this expert with Pratt & Whitney plane engine parts, noticed something extremely suspect. Eisenberg says there were no plane parts, no luggage, and no signs that a plane ever hit the Pentagon on that day. Eisenberg has founded the Orion Project and is now telling his story in hopes of exposing the people he says have been pulling the wool over the eyes of millions of Americans for decades. The Free Thought Project plans on helping Eisenberg tell this story and will be vetting all the information and claims he makes in the podcast below. (Length: 1:01:41) This is his story. You can follow Adam and his progress on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/awakenedadam/

In this episode, Lamar is with an exceptional guest and an incredible entrepreneur, Andy Henriquez, also known as the “Master Storyteller” and founder of the Master Storyteller Academy. Andy is a business storytelling coach, keynote speaker, and author of the game-changing book, Show Up For Your Life. Andy, who was mentored by Les Brown, trains speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs on how to Unlock the Power of Story to elevate their brand, build more significant connections and increase revenue. Some of his past clients include Office Depot, Accenture, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Bacardi, and Google to name a few. His motivational stories have been featured on Goalcast with over 7 million views and counting.    Andy talks about how he was living the “corporate dream”, and how he transitioned into becoming a full-time, successful entrepreneur after making a huge mistake early on. He also explained how storytelling can make a huge difference in how you connect with clients and build your brand, plus he discussed the different types of stories and storytellers. So, make sure to click that play button and listen to this episode now!     Want to keep up with Andy Henriquez? Find details here: ► Website: https://andyhenriquez.com/   ► Facebook: https://facebook.com/ShowUpForYourLife  ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyhenriquez  ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/showupforyourlife/   ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/andyhenriquez  ► Here are the two options to take the quiz:  - Take The FREE Storyteller Quiz: https://www.storytellerquiz.com/   - Text The Word: Story to 954-278-3701   Want to keep up with Traffic Sales and Profit? Find details here: ► Podcast: https://trafficsalesandprofit.com/podcast ► Get your FREE Traffic Sales and Profit Book here https://freetspbook.com/tsp-book ► Subscribe to the YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/trafficsalesandprofit ► Upcoming Live Events:

This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill, police presence at Universities, anarcho-tourism and the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner Giannis Michialidas. Links: Learn more on the struggle for Strefi by visiting LofosStrefi.Noblogs.Org or finding them on Twitter (@LofosStrefi) or Facebook Protest from 2021 at Strefi Hill video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoikItwwFn4 From the attack in the feminist demo against attempt of rape. Very strong moment for us oppressed from patriarchy: https://youtu.be/kXKfV69_lGo Self organized carnival from strefi assembly, no metro in exarchia square assembly and self organized Navarinou park https://youtu.be/Q1XpyBttDdc 25th june International call for defending exarchia https://youtu.be/xYl6eNlfHLU New mural for Alexis Grigoropoulos https://youtu.be/9vr6uHgO-7g Announcements Week of Solidarity August 23-30th is the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. The site https://Solidarity.International has suggestions of ways to get involved, a poster for this year, and place to contact to announce or share your action or event. Reject Raytheon, WNC On Earth Day 2022, affiliates of Reject Raytheon AVL performed a rally, march and direct action at the Bent Creek River Park to block traffic and protest the building of a factory by Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of aerospace war drone and fighter plan component manufacturer, Raytheon. You can support folks as they attend court at 9am on August 31st the Buncombe County courthouse, room 1A for trespassing charges. And you can learn more about the struggle to push back the murder machine manufacturer Raytheon locally at RejectRaytheonAVL.com Firestorm Fundraiser If you haven't heard, our friends and sponsor Firestorm Books has purchased a building and will be moving down at 1022 Haywood Rd to the former site of Dr. Dave's Automotive, near the Odditorium over the next year. They plan to donate the land to the Asheville Community Land Trust to be held in protection for perpetuity, but are fundraising now to pay for remediation and renovation of the space. You can support their efforts and help make this new space a reality by visiting their GiveButter page linked in our show notes for this episode. TFSR Patreon I'll keep this short and sweet. A big shout out to the folks who've donated or joined our patreon recently. We're still not at the level where our recurring donations will cover the monthly cost of our printing, mailing, web hosting and transcriptions (about $600 per month would do that) let alone saving up to help us cover future travels to gather interviews, but we're moving that direction. To entice you, we've changed up our patreon to feature a new $3/mo level, and are offering occasional online patreon content to that and other levels including early releases, behind the scenes chats, updates and other things. If you can throw us some dough, we'd be much obliged. You can find more about the patreon at patreon.com/tfsr and learn other ways to support us at tfsr.wtf/support ! . ... . .. Featured Track: Αυτό Το Σύστημα [Διάβρωση Cover] by Γεμάτος Αράχνες, ρε Φίλε! from their 2021 split with Βελζεβούλ Τα μη χειρότερα

Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace company that is part of the multinational defence conglomerate Raytheon Technologies, announced the establishment of a state-of-the-art India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bengaluru, which is planned to open in January 2023. Bharti Airtel tested a private 5G network at German automotive company Bosch's centre in Bengaluru. And the RBI wants cryptos banned, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reiterated in parliament yesterday. Notes: Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, is of the view that cryptocurrencies should be banned, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told parliament yesterday in a statement, in reply to a question on virtual currencies. Given the concerns expressed by RBI on the destabilising effect of cryptocurrencies on the monetary and fiscal stability of a country, RBI has recommended framing legislation on this sector. The central bank is of the view that cryptocurrencies should be prohibited, the minister said. Cryptos are, by definition, borderless and require international collaboration to prevent regulatory arbitrage. Therefore, any legislation for regulation or banning can be effective only after significant international collaboration on evaluation of the risks and benefits and evolution of common taxonomy and standards, Sitharaman added. Tata Consultancy Services is in the process of establishing eight large new offices – including some in non-metro cities -- each having the capacity to house more than 10,000 employees, Economic Times reports, citing CFO Samir Seksaria. As part of the strategy, these new offices will be designed to facilitate easy collaboration, Seksaria told ET. Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace company that is part of the multinational defence conglomerate Raytheon Technologies, yesterday, announced the establishment of a state-of-the-art India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bengaluru, which is planned to open in January 2023. Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in civilian and military aircraft. The company's new India centre will focus on providing contract engineering services and is expected to employ 500 engineers and professionals when fully staffed, according to a press release. The centre is “a first-of-its-kind investment for our company in India,” Geoff Hunt, senior VP of engineering, said in the press release. America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening one more special investigation into a Tesla vehicle crash, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. This time it involves the crash of a 2021 Tesla Model Y that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month, TechCrunch reports. Bharti Airtel, last week, announced the successful trial of India's first 5G Private Network at Bosch Automotive Electronics India's facility in Bengaluru. Airtel's on-premises 5G Captive Private Network was built over the trial 5G spectrum allocated by India's Department of Telecom, the wireless services provider said in a press release. Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1 President Frank DeRiso joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast and discussed the mass shooting in Buffalo, how it affected Local 1 members who work at the store where the shooting took place and how people can donate to a fund to support the union members affected by the tragedy.    Tom Buffenbarger, an Independent Labor Voice appeared on the AWF Union Podcast and talked about the rail worker shortage and how it has impacted the supply chain crisis. He also spoke about recent union contract wins at Hawaiian Airlines and Pratt & Whitney.

Critical initiatives are underway that will influence how sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) mix and proliferate, how SAF and hydrogen will impact engine design and operation, and how aviation companies will manage their supply chains and Scope 3 emissions measuring. Graham Webb, Pratt & Whitney's Chief Sustainability Officer, tells Lee Ann Shay about what needs to be done now to reduce aviation's carbon footprint.

In today's podcast, we interview Abasiano Udofa Senior Technical Program Manager. He discusses his career creating products at NVIDIA and Pratt & Whitney. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/

Chela Gage is Head of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Pratt & Whitney. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. As a partner and consultant to the business and talent organizations, Chela is responsible for developing and creating the strategic long-term plan and initiatives to advance DEI. She shares with us: The My Why for DEI exercise to engage all employees in diversity and inclusion Her firm's action plan to drive true transformation Her "frozen middle" engagement strategy for middle manager engagement in DEI Connect with Chela at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelagage/ and with Julie at nextpivotpoint.com. 

Tune in as aftermarket supply chain senior manager at Pratt & Whitney and co-founder & president of Junity App, Janoye Williams,'14 SC&IS discusses his passion project. Being a first-generation college graduate, Janoye's mission is to provide a platform to help high school students, especially those from low-income communities, find resources to assist them in reaching their educational and professional aspirations. Be inspired!“Having the opportunity to volunteer with youth, woke up a sleeping giant in me and inspired me to think of giving back in a sustainable way.” –Janoye Williams

Episode 100 Episode 100 looks ahead to what's next for Flight Safety Detectives. There's a fresh new look and new segments to educate and entertain while doing the serious work of promoting aviation safety. Hear John and Greg talk about their plans for 2022. They offer updates on recent major accidents covered in earlier episodes: Pratt & Whitney engine failure investigation, Episode 67 TransAir 810 crash, Episode 78 Get a preview of an upcoming episode about the Citation accident involving active winglets that is now under the NTSB reconsideration of probable cause process. John and Greg have insider insights into that lesser-known process. Listen for more crucial insights for pilots and mechanics.

Chris Salem – is an incredible Warrior. He is a CEO, executive coach, world-class speaker, award-winning author®, certified mindset expert, radio show host & media personality, and wellness advocate. His book Master Your Inner Critic / Resolve the Root Cause – Create Prosperity went international best seller in 2016. He also co-authored the recent edition to "Mastering the Art of Success" with Jack Canfield. His weekly radio show Sustainable Success is part of the Voice America Influencers Channel. Chris has worked with organizations such as JP Morgan – Chase, Ralph Lauren, Microchip Technologies, Anthem, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, United Healthcare, GE Research, US Senate, US Census Bureau, Hubbell Corporation, and NYPD Forensics Department including universities such as University of Hartford, Bay Path University, Westchester Community College, Worcester State University, and spoke on overcoming limited beliefs for peak performance at Harvard University's Faculty Club.

Hunter Moore - CEO & Founder of Plasma Games - Getting Kids Interested in Pursuing STEM Field Careers. This is episode 432 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Hunter is the founder and CEO of Plasma Games. His passion for science and education began in childhood and later grew when he got a taste for educational instruction in the STEM field as a TA for engineering courses while in college. Hunter had the initial idea for Plasma Games based on his work experience at IBM, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and Sandia National Laboratories, where a shortage of eligible, trained technical staff was apparent across the US economy. He has a BSME and MSME from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Our focus today is learning about Plasma Games and getting kids interested in learning more about STEM career fields. Thanks for listening. So much to learn! But wait... The holidays can be a particularly stressful time of year if you don't have a plan. Well have I got the solution for you!  Join my friend Lynn with  "Connect.Flow.Grow." in her launch of... Stress Less Holidays!  Lynn will teach you how to evaluate your stress and develop a plan to reduce it. Learn more about Stress Less Holidays and join by clicking on this link  Stress Less Holidays ...the link will take you to where you can find out more information and sign up…   Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!   Have you been wanting to tell your story on podcasts? Podcasts are a great way to grow your personal and business brand. Kitcaster specializes in developing real human connections through podcast appearances. If you are an expert in your field, have a unique story to share, or an interesting point of view-- it's time to explore the world of podcasting with Kitcaster. Go to https://kitcaster.com/tllk12 or go to my webpage at https://stevenmiletto.com/sponsors click on the Kitcaster logo to apply for a special offer for friends of Teaching Learning Leading K12.   Ready to start your own podcast? Podbean is an awesome host. I have been with them since 2013. Go to https://www.podbean.com/TLLK12 to get 1 month free of unlimited hosting for your new podcast.    Remember to take a look at NVTA (National Virtual Teacher Association) The NVTA Certification Process was created to establish a valid and reliable research-based teacher qualification training process for virtual teachers to enhance their teaching and develop their ongoing reflective skills to improve teaching capacity. NVTA is an affiliate sponsor of Teaching Learning Leading K12, by following the link above if you purchase a program, Teaching Learning Leading K12 will get a commission and you will help the show continue to grow.    Don't forget to go to my other affiliate sponsor Boone's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission.   Oh by the way, you can help support Teaching Learning Leading K12 by buying me a soft drink (actually making a donation to Teaching Learning Leading K12.) That would be awesome! You would be helping expand the show with equipment and other resources to keep the show moving upward. Just go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stevenmiletto Thanks! Have an awesome day! Connect & Learn More: https://play.plasma.games/about https://play.plasma.games/ https://twitter.com/playplasmagames https://www.facebook.com/PlayPlasmaGames/ https://www.pinterest.com/PlayPlasmaGames/ https://www.instagram.com/playplasmagames/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qesg-ffGwv9FkTOoR8uaQ Length - 38:49

This week in the Lounge, Madhu and Ned breakdown Delta's third-quarter earnings, and take bets on whether premium leisure is the travel trend of the future that CEO Ed Bastian thinks it is. Also, Southwest burns out and United wants its Pratt & Whitney-powered 777s back for what could be a blockbuster Summer 2022 across the North Atlantic.

In this episode, we hear from Carlos Davila, Ph.D., principal research engineer with the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) at GTRI and Julian Rimoli, Ph.D., the Pratt & Whitney professor in the Aerospace Engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They share their experiences in mentorship, serving their communities, and using their unique backgrounds. This episode is devoted to recognizing our talented Hispanic and Latinx employees at Georgia Tech in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Our guest this week is Nicole Stott. Nicole grew up in Clearwater, Florida. She began her career in 1987 as a structural design engineer with Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, Florida. In 1988, Stott joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Center as an Operations Engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility. In 2000, she was selected as a NASA Astronaut. In April 2006, Nicole was a crew member on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 9 mission, where she lived and worked with a six-person crew for 18 days on the Aquarius undersea research habitat. Nicole has been to space two times now, once in 2009 as a mission specialist on STS-128 Discovery, participating in the first spacewalk of that mission; she spent over 100 days as a flight engineer on the International Space Station (ISS), and returned on STS-129 Atlantis. Her second time to space was in 2011, where Nicole was a mission specialist on STS-133, the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Today, Nicole (a mother) is an artist who shares her passion for space through her work. She is a co-founder of the Space for Art Foundation, and is also an author of the book Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet―And Our Mission to Protect It, which comes out on October 12. IG @astro_nicole @spaceforartfoundation https://www.backtoearthbook.com https://www.spaceforartfoundation.org

On this episode of the Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast, we feature a discussion with Pratt & Whitney focusing on how the company continues to invest in new data analytics solutions, cloud computing and software that is digitally transforming the way commercial airlines track the health of their engines.  This is our first episode under the new Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast name, we have changed the name simply to reflect the name change of our associated annual live event, the Global Connected Aircraft Summit, which undertook the name change to Connected Aviation Intelligence Summit earlier this year.  Our guest on this episode is Arun Srinivasan, who is the associate director for strategy and engine health management for Pratt & Whitney. He provides some perspective on their recent partnership with Teledyne to improve engine and flight data sharing between airlines and OEMs as well as other ways they're improving the digital methods available to airlines to track the health of their engines.  FREE registration for our next Connected Aviation Intelligence live webcast featuring Valour, Iridium, SmartSky Networks and Satcom Direct on Thursday Sept. 30: https://www.gcasummit.com/aviation-intelligence/   Have suggestions or topics we should focus on in the next episode? Email the host, Woodrow Bellamy at wbellamy@accessintel.com, or drop him a line on Twitter @WbellamyIIIAC.  Check out our publication Avionics International @AvionicsGlobal + www.aviationtoday.com.  Join our Avionics International LinkedIn group to suggest topics we should cover in our podcast, publications and events. www.linkedin.com/AvionicsMag  

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Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 8, 1963, the Boeing 707 serving the flight crashed near Elkton, Maryland, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, after being hit by lightning. All 81 occupants of the plane were killed. The crash was Pan Am's first fatal accident with the 707, which it had introduced to its fleet five years earlier. An investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that the cause of the crash was a lightning strike that had ignited fuel vapors in one of the aircraft's fuel tanks, causing an explosion that destroyed one of the wings. The exact manner of ignition was never determined, but the investigation yielded information about how lightning can damage aircraft, leading to new safety regulations. The crash also spawned research into the safety of various types of aviation fuel and into methods of reducing dangerous fuel-tank vapors. Pan American Flight 214 was a regularly scheduled flight from Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Philadelphia International Airport with a scheduled stopover at Baltimore's Friendship Airport. It operated three times a week as the counterpart to Flight 213, which flew from Philadelphia to San Juan via Baltimore earlier the same day. Flight 214 left San Juan at 4:10 p.m. Eastern time with 140 passengers and eight crew members, and arrived in Baltimore at 7:10 p.m. The crew did not report any maintenance issues or problems during the flight. After 67 passengers disembarked in Baltimore, the aircraft departed at 8:24 p.m. with its remaining 73 passengers for the final leg to Philadelphia International Airport. As the flight approached Philadelphia, the pilots established contact with air traffic control near Philadelphia at 8:42 p.m. The controller informed the pilots that the airport was experiencing a line of thunderstorms in the vicinity, accompanied by strong winds and turbulence. The controller asked whether the pilots wanted to proceed directly to the airport or to enter a holding pattern to wait for the storm to pass. The crew elected to remain at 5,000 feet in a holding pattern with five other aircraft. The controller told the pilots that the delay would last approximately 30 minutes. There was heavy rain in the holding area, with frequent lightning and gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). At 8:58 p.m., the aircraft exploded. The pilots were able to transmit a final message: "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY. Clipper 214 out of control. Here we go." Seconds later, the first officer of National Airlines Flight 16, holding 1,000 feet higher in the same holding pattern, radioed, "Clipper 214 is going down in flames." The aircraft crashed at 8:59 p.m. in a corn field east of Elkton, Maryland, near the Delaware Turnpike, setting the rain-soaked field on fire. The aircraft was completely destroyed, and all of the occupants were killed. The aircraft was the first Pan American jet to crash in the five years since the company had introduced their jet fleet. A Maryland state trooper who had been patrolling on Route 213 radioed an alert as he drove toward the crash site, east of Elkton near the state line. The trooper was first to arrive at the crash site and later stated that "It wasn't a large fire. It was several smaller fires. A fuselage with about 8 or 10 window frames was about the only large recognizable piece I could see when I pulled up. It was just a debris field. It didn't resemble an airplane. The engines were buried in the ground 10- to 15-feet from the force of the impact." It was soon obvious to firefighters and police officers that little could be done other than to extinguish the fires and to begin collecting bodies. The wreckage was engulfed in intense fires that burned for more than four hours. First responders and police from across the county, along with men from the United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge, assisted with the recovery. They patrolled the area with railroad flares and set up searchlights to define the accident scene and to ensure that the debris and human remains were undisturbed by curious spectators. Remains of the victims were brought to the National Guard Armory in Philadelphia, where a temporary morgue was created. Relatives came to the armory, but officials ruled out the possibility of visually identifying the victims. It took the state medical examiner nine days to identify all of the victims, using fingerprints, dental records and nearby personal effects. In some cases, the team reconstructed the victims' faces to the extent possible using mannequins. The main impact crater contained most of the aircraft's fuselage, the left inner wing, the left main gear and the nose gear. Portions of the plane's right wing and fuselage, right main landing gear, horizontal and vertical tail surfaces and two of the engines were found within 360 feet (110 m) of the crater. A trail of debris from the plane extended as far as four miles (6 km) from the point of impact. The complete left-wing tip was found nearly two miles (3 km) from the crash site. Parts of the wreckage ripped a 40-foot-wide (12 m) hole in a country road, shattered windows in a nearby home and spread burning jet fuel across a wide area. The Civil Aeronautics Board was notified of the accident and was dispatched from Washington, D.C. to conduct an investigation. Witnesses of the crash described hearing the explosion and seeing the plane in flames as it descended. Of the 140 witnesses interviewed, 99 reported seeing an aircraft or a flaming object in the sky. Seven witnesses stated that they had seen lightning strike the aircraft. Seventy-two witnesses said that the ball of fire occurred at the same time as, or immediately after, the lightning strike. Twenty-three witnesses reported that the aircraft exploded after they had seen it ablaze. The aircraft was a Boeing 707-121 registered with tail number N709PA. Named the Clipper Tradewind, it was the oldest aircraft in the U.S. commercial jet fleet at the time of the crash. It had been delivered to Pan Am on October 27, 1958 and had flown a total of 14,609 hours. It was powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6 turbojet engines and its estimated value was $3,400,000 (equivalent to $28,700,000 in 2020). In 1959, the aircraft had been involved in an incident in which the right outboard engine was torn from the wing during a training flight in France. The plane entered a sudden spin during a demonstration of the aircraft's minimum control speed, and the aerodynamic forces caused the engine to break away. The pilot regained control of the aircraft and landed safely in London using the remaining three engines. The detached engine fell into a field on a farm southwest of Paris, where the flight had originated, with no injuries. The plane carried 73 passengers, who all died in the crash. All the passengers were residents of the United States. The pilot was George F. Knuth, 45, of Long Island. He had flown for Pan Am for 22 years and had accumulated 17,049 hours of flying experience, including 2,890 in the Boeing 707. He had been involved in another incident in 1949, when as pilot of Pan Am Flight 100, a Lockheed Constellation in flight over Port Washington, New York, a Cessna 140 single-engine airplane crashed into his plane. The two occupants of the Cessna were killed, but Captain Knuth was able to land safely with no injuries to his crew or passengers. The first officer was John R. Dale, 48, also of Long Island. He had a total of 13,963 hours of flying time, of which 2,681 were in the Boeing 707. The second officer was Paul L. Orringer, age 42, of New Rochelle, New York. He had 10,008 hours of flying experience, including 2,808 in Boeing 707 aircraft. The flight engineer was John R. Kantlehner of Long Island. He had a total flying time of 6,066 hours, including 76 hours in the Boeing 707. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) assigned more than a dozen investigators within an hour of the crash. The CAB team was assisted by investigators from the Boeing Company, Pan American World Airways, the Air Line Pilots Association, Pratt & Whitney, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Aviation Agency. The costs of the CAB's investigations rarely exceeded $10,000, but the agency would spend about $125,000 investigating this crash (equivalent to $1,060,000 in 2020), in addition to the money spent by Boeing, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Pratt & Whitney, and other aircraft-part suppliers during additional investigations. Initial theories of the cause of the crash focused on the possibility that the plane had experienced severe turbulence in flight that caused a fuel tank or fuel line to rupture, leading to an in-flight fire from leaking fuel. U.S. House Representative Samuel S. Stratton of Schenectady, New York sent a telegram to the FAA urging them to restrict jet operations in turbulent weather, but the FAA responded that it saw no pattern that suggested the need for such restrictions, and Boeing concurred. Other theories included sabotage or lightning, but by nightfall after the first day, investigators had not found evidence of either. There was also some speculation that metal fatigue as a result of the aircraft's 1959 incident could be a factor, but the aircraft had undergone four separate maintenance overhauls since the accident without any issues having been detected. Investigators rapidly located the flight data recorder, but it was badly damaged in the crash. Built to withstand an impact 100 times as strong as the force of gravity, it had been subjected to a force of 200 times the force of gravity, and its tape appeared to be hopelessly damaged. CAB chairman Alan S. Boyd told reporters shortly after the accident, "It was so compacted there is no way to tell at this time whether we can derive any useful information from it." Eventually, investigators were able to extract data from 95 percent of the tape that had been in the recorder. The recovery of the wreckage took place over a period of 12 days, and 16 truckloads of the debris were taken to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. for investigators to examine and reassemble. Investigators revealed that there was evidence of a fire that had occurred in flight, and one commented that it was nearly certain that there had been an in-flight explosion of some kind. Eyewitness testimony later confirmed that the plane had been burning on its way down to the crash site. Within days, investigators reported that the crash had apparently been caused by an explosion that had blown off one of the wing tips. The wing tip had been found about three miles (5 km) from the crash site bearing burn marks and bulging from an apparent internal explosive force. Remnants of nine feet (3 m) of the wing tip had been found at various points along the flight path short of the impact crater. Investigators revealed that it was unlikely that rough turbulence had caused the crash because the crews of other aircraft that had been circling in the area reported that the air was relatively smooth at the time. They also said that the plane would have had to dive a considerable distance before aerodynamic forces would have caused it to break up and explode, but it was apparent that the aircraft had caught fire near its cruising altitude of 5,000 feet. Before this flight, there had been no other known case of lightning causing a plane to crash despite many instances of planes being struck. Investigators found that on average, each airplane is struck by lightning once or twice a year. Scientists and airline-industry representatives vigorously disputed the theory that lightning could have caused the aircraft to explode, calling it improbable. The closest example of such an instance occurred near Milan, Italy in June 1959 when a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation crashed as a result of static electricity igniting fuel vapor emanating from the fuel vents. Despite the opposition, investigators found multiple lightning strike marks on the left wing tip, and a large area of damage that extended along the rear edge of the wing, leading investigators to believe that lightning was indeed the cause. The CAB launched an urgent research program in an attempt to identify conditions in which fuel vapors in the wings could have been ignited by lightning. Within a week of the crash, the FAA issued an order requiring the installation of static electricity dischargers on the approximately 100 Boeing jet airliners that had not already been so equipped. Aviation-industry representatives were critical of the order, claiming that there was no evidence that the dischargers would have any beneficial effect, as they were not designed to handle the effects of lightning, and they said that the order would create a false impression that the risk of lightning strikes had been resolved. The CAB conducted a public hearing in Philadelphia in February 1964 as part of its investigation. Experts had still not concluded that lightning had caused the accident, but they were investigating how lightning could have triggered the explosion. The FAA said that it would conduct research to determine the relative safety of the two types of jet fuel used in the United States, both of which were present in the fuel tanks of Flight 214. Criticism of the JP-4 jet fuel that was in the tanks centered around the fact that its vapors can be easily ignited at the low temperatures encountered in flight. JP-4 advocates countered that the fuel was as safe, or safer than, kerosene, the other fuel used in jets at the time. Pan American conducted a flight test in a Boeing 707 to investigate whether fuel could leak from the tank-venting system during a test flight that attempted to simulate moderate to rough turbulence in flight. The test did not reveal any fuel discharge, but there was evidence that fuel had entered the vent system, collected in the surge tanks and returned to the tanks.[1](p9) Pan American said that it would test a new system to inject inert gas into the air spaces above the fuel tanks in aircraft in an attempt to reduce the risk of hazardous fuel-air mixtures that could ignite. On March 3, 1965, the CAB released its final accident report. The investigators concluded that a lightning strike had ignited the fuel-air mixture in the number 1 reserve fuel tank, which had caused an explosive disintegration of the left outer wing, leading to a loss of control. Despite one of the most intensive research efforts in its history, the agency could not identify the exact mechanics of the fuel ignition, concluding that lightning had ignited vapors through an as-yet unknown pathway. The board said, "It is felt that the current state of the art does not permit an extension of test results to unqualified conclusions of all aspects of natural lightning effects. The need for additional research is recognized and additional programming is planned." Accident Report Safety Recommendations The following recommendations for your consideration are submitted: Install static discharge wicks on those turbine powered aircraft not so equipped. Reevaluate problems associated with incorporation of flame arrestors in fuel tank vent outlets. We believe positive protection against fuel tank explosion from static discharge ignited fuel/air mixtures at fuel tank vent outlets can be provided by flame arrestors having sufficient depth. A possible alternative to No. 2 that may be considered is to render the mixture emitting from the vent outlet non-ignitable by the introduction of air into the vent tube. We believe the surge tanks located just outboard of the reserve tanks, by virtue of their location near the wing tip, are vulnerable with respect to lightning strikes. Burn marks on the skin in the tip area of N709PA substantiates this belief. This being the case, it is believed a measure of protection will be attained if the wing skin is not utilized as part of the surge tank walls. This could be accomplished by providing an inner wall with an air gap between it and the wing skin to form the surge tank. It is recommended that this concept be considered. Another alternative appears to provide sufficient thickness of the skin in this area to prevent burning through by lightning strikes. Suggested for consideration is the requirement that only Jet A fuel be used commercially. Vapor flammability temperature charts provided by Esso show that much less of the operations would occur with the vapor in the flammability range while using Jet A fuel as compared with Jet B fuel. Finally, it is recommended that every effort be expanded to arrive at a practical means by which flammable air/vapor mixtures are eliminated from the fuel tanks. There appears to be at least two approaches to accomplish this act. There is the possibility of inerting the space above the fuel by introduction of an inert gas. An alternate approach is to introduce sufficient air circulation into the tanks to maintain a fuel/air ratio too lean for combustion. There may well be other approaches to attain this goal; if so, they should be explored. Other problems of like complexity have been resolved and we feel the resolution of this problem is likewise attainable at a cost commensurate with the benefits. We recommend that FAA/CAB solicit the aid of the aviation and petroleum industry as well as government and defense agencies to provide a solution to this problem that is applicable to aircraft in service as well as new aircraft.

Amanda Billiot, VP of Human Resources for Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney, shares what is innovation through her years as a positive disruptor in DEI.More about our guest: Amanda Billiot  is the VP, Human Resources for Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney. After over 16 years in HR, she is a self-proclaimed positive disruptor when it comes to leading innovation and growth courageously. Two of her proudest professional accomplishments include helping to start the award-winning Empower Ability ERG and this incredible WILL Rise program at Pratt. She has also worked for GE, Cooper Industries, the National Labor Relations Board, and in sports radio. Amanda is also a proud fellow of the Aspen Institute's First Mover Program and an active member of her local community and church.------------------------------------------------------------Episode guide2:27 - What is Innovation3:37 - Energy in industry level work processes4:24 - Innovation and Patents5:44 - Innovation Buzzword: Inclusion8:26 - DEI program: Raytheon10:30 - DEI for broader innovation11:54 - Having a heart14:34 - What isn't Innovation?19:11 - Resiliency, Celebrations, and Learning20:58 - Innovation, Health, Well-being, and COVID  22:22 - Performance reviews, Cookie-cutter employees,  25:46 - Interview, expectations, bias, and validation29:06 - Advice to deal with the imposter syndrome32:34 - Advice for innovators------------------------------------------------------------OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management. 

Alton Moss has 30 plus years of Operations and Supply Chain Management experience with a high technology engineering/manufacturing company (Pratt & Whitney). He demonstrates outstanding leadership skills in developing, implementing and tracking business strategies that foster teamwork, productivity improvement and shareholder value. Prior to entering real estate Mr. Moss lead the P&W's Supplier Diversity office. Additional credentials include fifteen plus years of experience in Real Estate as a skilled negotiator with excellent communication skills. Very proactive and knowledgeable of the buying and selling process. Mr. Moss holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering complemented by an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Transmitido ao vivo em 21 de mar. de 2021 A Embraer apresentou imagem do projeto de um novo turboélice, de asa baixa e que será impulsionado por dois motores - a Pratt & Whitney já demonstra interesse - e que, se aprovado, poderá entrar em linha de produção entre 2023 e 2027. Essa, entre outras notícias da aviação, em debate no ASA News, que traz entre os convidados, o comandante de aeronaves Airbus A320, Ivan Carvalho; Dani Glikmanas, diretor de shopping em São Paulo, e membro do comitê alumni de empreendedorismo do Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper); e Peter Biondi, jornalista, consultor e analista em aviation management. Participação especial: comandante Ubiratan Rocha, presidente da ABRAPAC - Associação Brasileira de Pilotos da Aviação Civil.

In this episode, co-hosts Max Flight and Mary Kirby consider whether the aviation industry is poised for a faster-than-expected recovery given the extraordinary pent-up demand for air travel. They discuss IATA’s latest survey, which suggests that people will fly once they receive the COVID-19 vaccine.But has the pandemic reset our passenger experience expectations?Next, Cathay Pacific’s decision to let first and business passengers remove their masks when sleeping in the lie-flat position has generated a mixed response from readers. Some reckon that it makes common sense, others see it as classist and unfair. Mary and Max explore both sides of the argument.Finally, aviation seems to be largely in agreement that, in a post-COVID world, its eco-credentials must improve. Myriad new ideas have been tabled to date including new turboprops, blended wing body aircraft, hybrid electric aircraft, plus new turbofans and synthetic fuel, not to mention exploratory studies into hydrogen-powered aircraft. A former executive for Pratt & Whitney, Max shares some insight into the challenges of going green, and some of his favorite ideas.

Episode 60 John and Greg are giving meticulous attention to information available on the recent United Airlines engine explosion. In this episode they share their initial expert observations and predict what’s next. Learn what the evidence so far really shows from two of the world’s most experienced accident investigators. They explain why the crew and air traffic control personnel who handled the flight were “the ideal scenario for handling the situation.” The outcome could have been far worse. John shares his extensive knowledge of Pratt & Whitney 4000 series engines. He walks listeners through the critical components. He discusses the forces the fan blades need to endure. He walks through the components and maintenance procedures. What’s next? John and Greg talk about the implications of mandated inspections. They also have some predictions for potential actions such as declaring blades in service for a certain period of time at end of life. Flight Safety Detectives is sponsored by Avemco Insurance. Mention the Flight Safety Detectives podcast and receive a 5% discount!

First up is a tale of two states and how they have drastically different approaches to public transit. Next up plane parts rain down on Colorado and the Netherlands resulting in only minor injuries but a suspension of aircraft with Pratt Whitney hollow fan blade engines. And finally, a tour bus company decides to turn it's fleet into mobile vaccination clinics.

A review of the features, benefits, and value offered by Hourly Cost Maintenance Programs, and the Pratt & Whitney Eagle Servic Plan, commonly referred to as ESP. Points discussed with Delray Dobbins include: An explanation of engine Hourly Cost Maintenance Programs, and the Eagle Service Plan offered by Pratt & Whitney Canada. How OEM engine programs have evolved over the last 20 years. The biggest improvements in OEM engine programs. The current popularity of OEM engine programs. What is on the horizon for Pratt & Whitney's ESP maintenance program? The PT6E, P&WC's engine powering the Pilatus PC-12NGX: why some are viewing it as a game-changer. OEM responsibility to support operators, and the industry as a whole, in a time of crisis.

In this bonus follow-up interview, Gene Kim and Dr. Steve Spear dig into what makes for great leadership today, including the importance of distributed decision-making and problem-solving. They showcase the real advantages of allowing more decisions to be made by the people closest to the work, who are the most suited to solve them.   Dr. Spear also shares his personal accounts of the honorable Paul O’Neill, the late CEO of Alcoa who built an incredible culture of safety and performance during his tenure. And Kim and Spear dive deeper into the structure and dynamics of the famous MIT beer game.   ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Steve Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System.  A Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Spear’s work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so they know better faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple “verticals” including heavy industry, high tech design, biopharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, Army rapid equipping, and Navy readiness.   High velocity learning concepts became the basis of the Alcoa Business System—which led to 100s of millions in recurring savings, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiatives “Perfecting Patient Care System”—credited with sharp reductions in complications like MRSA and CLABs, Pratt & Whitney’s “Engineering Standard Work”—which when piloted led to winning the engine contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, the operating system for Detroit Edison, and the Navy’s high velocity learning line of effort—an initiative led by the Chief of Naval Operations. A pilot with a pharma company cut the time for the ‘hit to lead’ phase in early stage drug discovery from twelve months to six. Spear has published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Health Services Research, Harvard Business Review, Academic Administrator, and the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings He invented the patented See to Solve Real Time Alert System and is principal investigator for new research on making critical decisions when faced with hostile data.  He’s supervised more than 40 theses and dissertations. He holds degrees from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton and worked at the University of Tokyo, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and Prudential Bache. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevespear Email: steve@hvellc.com Website: thehighvelocityedge.com   You’ll Learn About: Distributed decision-making Developing group leader core Safety culture at ALCOA The need for specialization in an increasingly complex world MIT beer game Feedback builds trust Episode Timeline: [00:10] Intro [01:36] Limitations of the leader [08:03] Taking the Moses example to the assembly line at Toyota [11:12] Developing group leader core [13:32] Back to the Moses problem [14:19] Gene’s two thoughts [16:01] Planet Money’s SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles [18:38] An Excerpt from The DevOps Handbook [20:57] Paul O’Neill’s job to set standards [22:35] Elements of rugged topography [23:37] Sponsored ad: DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas - Virtual [24:39] Setting context [25:30] The structure and resulting dynamics [28:00] Call it out early and often [30:45] Making everyone feel responsible [36:51] Safety culture at ALCOA [37:33] “If there’s a failure, it’s my failure” [38:52] Topography of the problem [42:27] Applying to the car example [46:50] Benefits of specialization in modern medicine [50:37] Complexity will keep increasing as time goes by or is it reduced? [52:31] The need for specialization will continue to grow [53:22] MIT Beer Game through the lens of structure and dynamics [1:00:14] Feedback builds trust [1:01:21] Dirty Harry’s final scene [1:03:08] Outro Resources: SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles on Planet Money Paul O'Neill interview worker safety at ALCOA Paul O'Neill on Safety Leadership Paul O'Neill Speech on "The Irreducible Components of Leadership" DevOps Enterprise Summit DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas - Virtual Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis and Jez Humble The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition by Dr. Steve Spear “The Beer Game” by Prof. John D. Sterman The Idealcast EP. 5: The Pursuit of Perfection: Dominant Architectures, Structure, and Dynamics: a Conversation With Dr. Steve Spear The Idealcast EP. 6: (Dispatch from the Scenius) Dr. Steven Spear’s 2019 and 2020 DOES Talks on Rapid, Distributed, Dynamic Learning

In the latest Dispatch from the Scenius, Gene Kim brings you two of Dr. Steve Spear’s DevOps Enterprise Summit presentations in their entirety.   In Spear’s 2019 presentation, “Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection,” he talks about the need and the value of finding faults in our thinking that result in faults in our doing.    Spear continues to explore this lesson in his 2020 presentation about the US Navy 100 years ago, when they were at a crucial inflection point in both technology and strategic mission. It is one of the most remarkable examples of creating distributed learning in a vast enterprise.    As always, Gene provides exclusive commentary to the presentations. ABOUT THE GUESTS   Dr. Steve Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System.  A Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Spear’s work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so they know better faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple “verticals” including heavy industry, high tech design, biopharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, Army rapid equipping, and Navy readiness.    High velocity learning concepts became the basis of the Alcoa Business System—which led to 100s of millions in recurring savings, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiatives “Perfecting Patient Care System”—credited with sharp reductions in complications like MRSA and CLABs, Pratt & Whitney’s “Engineering Standard Work”—which when piloted led to winning the engine contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, the operating system for Detroit Edison, and the Navy’s high velocity learning line of effort—an initiative led by the Chief of Naval Operations. A pilot with a pharma company cut the time for the ‘hit to lead’ phase in early stage drug discovery from twelve months to six.   Spear has published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Health Services Research, Harvard Business Review, Academic Administrator, and the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings He invented the patented See to Solve Real Time Alert System and is principal investigator for new research on making critical decisions when faced with hostile data.  He’s supervised more than 40 theses and dissertations. He holds degrees from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton and worked at the University of Tokyo, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and Prudential Bache.   LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevespear Email: steve@hvellc.com Website: thehighvelocityedge.com   You’ll Learn About: The dire consequences when traditional retailers were late creating competitive eCommerce capabilities. Creating dynamic learning organizations. How fast feedback creates opportunities to self correct and improve in real time How the US Navy’s Battle of Midway compares to how organizations are responding to digital disruption today. Episode Timeline: [00:10] Intro [01:23] Dr. Steve Spear’s speech [01:44] What did I accomplish? [02:39] What did I discover today? [03:45] Start point with ignorance [05:21] High velocity learning [06:52] Courtney Kissler and Nordstrom [08:09] Steve’s examples of finding a potential solution [18:53] The Machine That Changed the World  [19:57] High velocity learning is mother of all solutions [23:13] Shattered Sword [29:45] Homework: Garner feedback and make it better [30:59] The importance of high velocity outcomes [35:06] Steve’s ask for help [37:37] See to Solve [38:30] Steve’s presentation at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 [45:34] Digital disruption [47:17] Bringing the whole Navy to solve the problem [50:00] Combat information center [53:30] Greyhound [54:48] Innovation across a group of ships [58:47] Back to Midway [1:01:23] Contrast between Japanese’s and American’s Naval doctrine plans [1:04:17] Steve’s last encouragement [1:04:32] Gene’s two observations [1:08:32] Outro RESOURCES Dr. Steven Spear’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020 London - Virtual presentation - enter your email address to watch The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition by Dr. Steve Spear Reed Hastings’ quote The Machine That Changed the World: Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-Million-Dollar 5-Year Study on the Future of the Automobile by Dr. James P. Womack, Dr. Daniel T Jones and Dr. Daniel Roos Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway: The Japanese Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully  See to Solve Many of the concepts in this talk were explored by Trent Hone's fantastic book: Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945 by Trent Hone The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis and Jez Humble Greyhound

On this episode of The Idealcast with Gene Kim, Dr. Steve Spear talks about the primary characteristics of dynamic learning organizations, through the lens of its structure and the resulting dynamics, and how it enables those organizations to win and dominate in the marketplace.  From his 1999 Harvard Business Review article “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System” to his bestselling book The High-Velocity Edge to his monomaniacal advocate for the scientific method employed by everybody about everything all the time, Spear’s influence on the successful pursuit of excellence and perfection is undeniable.  Discussing everything from the importance of curiosity and experimentation, fast feedback, mission orientation, leadership, healthcare organizations, military strategy and organization, and of course Toyota, Spear and Kim explain why organizations behave the way they do and demonstrate why dynamic learning organizations are so successful. ABOUT THE GUESTS Dr. Steve Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System.  A Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Spear’s work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so they know better faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple “verticals” including heavy industry, high tech design, biopharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, Army rapid equipping, and Navy readiness.   High velocity learning concepts became the basis of the Alcoa Business System—which led to 100s of millions in recurring savings, the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiatives “Perfecting Patient Care System”—credited with sharp reductions in complications like MRSA and CLABs, Pratt & Whitney’s “Engineering Standard Work”—which when piloted led to winning the engine contract for the Joint Strike Fighter, the operating system for Detroit Edison, and the Navy’s high velocity learning line of effort—an initiative led by the Chief of Naval Operations. A pilot with a pharma company cut the time for the ‘hit to lead’ phase in early stage drug discovery from twelve months to six. Spear has published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Health Services Research, Harvard Business Review, Academic Administrator, and the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings He invented the patented See to Solve Real Time Alert System and is principal investigator for new research on making critical decisions when faced with hostile data.  He’s supervised more than 40 theses and dissertations. He holds degrees from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton and worked at the University of Tokyo, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and Prudential Bache. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevespear Email: steve@hvellc.com Website: thehighvelocityedge.com You’ll Learn About: Explore how Steve’s mental model of dominate architectures, structure and dynamics can explain why organizations behave the way they do The conditions for organizational-wide learning that allows the achievement of amazing goals and to dominate in the marketplace How fast feedback creates opportunities to self correct and improve in real time The characteristics of a dynamic learning organization Episode Timeline: [00:08] Intro [00:21] Meet Dr. Steve Spear [04:47] Introducing the late-Dr. Clay Christensen [05:50] Working at a Tier 1 Toyota supplier’s plant floor [09:56] Steve’s dissertation and Dr. Clay Christensen [15:00] Dr. Clay Christensen’s involvement with Steve’s work [19:19] Creating a feedback generating experiment beyond Toyota [30:07] Why dominant architectures are important [33:22] The steering column example [36:28] What happens when the problems change? [41:45] The role structure and dynamics play with dominant structures [45:00] Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World  [51:41] The parallels in the commercial world [53:02] Change of dynamics in team of teams examples [1:02:07] The importance of bad news [1:14:44] Learning the dynamics within the US Naval reactor core [1:23:59] Reflecting on the discussion with Steve [1:26:11] How The Rickover Program achieved its goals [1:27:53] Conditions that suppress signals [1:36:57] Relating this to the COVID-19 pandemic [1:41:11] Finding Dr. Steve Spear [1:43:04] Outro Resources: The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition by Dr. Steve Spear Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity by Dr. Carliss Y. Baldwin and Dr. Kim B. Clark Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference by Theodore Rockwell Strategies for Learning from Failure by Dr. Amy C. Edmondson Dr. Diane Vaughan China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed. by Steven Lee Myers See to Solve by Dr. Steve Spear “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System,” -  Harvard Business Review "Facing Ambiguous Threats," by Dr. Michael Roberto, Dr. Richard M.J. Bohmer and Dr. Amy C. Edmondson

Zapraszam do wysłuchania kolejnego odcinka podcastu “Urzeczywistnij swoje JA! .. odważna kobieto!”.Od razu zaznaczam, że jest to odcinek inny niż wszystkie, jest to odcinek nagrany w innej formule. Właściwie to ja odpowiadam, a Elżbieta Sidor znów pyta. Jak cofniesz się w moim podcaście o dwa odcinki to doczytasz, skąd wzięła się ta zmiana. Otóż pod wpływem pandemii, wielu zmian których doświadczamy i braku możliwości spotykania się na żywo, Ela, reprezentująca grupę o pięknej nazwie WING, czyli Women Inspiration &Networking Group, z organizacji Pratt & Whitney, poprosiła mnie o nagranie rozmów dedykowanych kobietom z swojego otoczenia zawodowego. Misją tej grupy jest właśnie wspieranie kobiet poprzez budowanie sieci wsparcia i dawanie inspiracji w obszarach zawodowych, jak i osobistych. Przed pandemią współpracowałyśmy, miałyśmy ambitne plany, ale cóż musimy je odłożyć w czasie.Po drugiej stronie mikrofonu spotkałam się więc z Elżbietą Sidor, która w stowarzyszeniu WI&NG pełni funkcję Vice prezydent'ki. I tym razem Ela znów pytała, a ja odpowiadałam.Pierwszy wspólny odcinek jest „o nas kobietach w czasie pandemii”, tym razem porozmawiamy o odporności psychicznej. O odporności psychicznej powstało wiele mitów i w tej rozmowie rozprawimy się z nimi. Czy to prawda że się ją ma albo nie? Czy to prawda że osoby wrażliwe nie są odporne psychiczne.W tym odcinku rozmawiamy więc o tym:•Czym jest odporność psychiczna?•Czym się różni od wrażliwości? •Czy odporność psychiczna ma same plusy? •Czy będąc wrażliwym można dawać sobie radę w współczesnym świecie? •Jak kształtować swoją odporność psychiczną? •Co wspólnego ma odporność psychiczna z empatią? •A jak odporność wiąże się z odwagę? • Czy kobiety i mężczyźni są podobni, czy różni pod względem odporności psychicznej? • I co robić kiedy smutek jest tak wielki, że nic nie jest wstanie go ukryć?Posłuchajcie! Z wielką przyjemnością występuję jako odpowiadająca, szczególnie kiedy mam tak fajne i mądre pytania.Oto link do pierwszej naszej wspólnej rozmowy: https://www.spreaker.com/user/martaiwanowska-polkowska/ja-kobieta-03-badzmy-odwazne-i-nieperfek .Dużo zdrowia!Marta Iwanowska-PolkowskaPS. A jeżeli chcecie nawiązać kontakt z Elą, to możecie znaleźć ją między innymi na Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elzbieta-sidor-6a1203a3/

It’s an annual occurrence throughout the Sacramento Valley; something countless motorists have seen while heading north of Sacramento – skilled pilots flying high-speed, GPS-guided airplanes, planting rice over a half-million acres of fields. Rick Richter of Richter Aviation in Maxwell, Colusa County, has been seeding rice fields since 1979. It’s not only his profession, it’s also a great passion for him. “It’s so rewarding to see that rice come up,” Richter remarked. “It’s a beautiful green within a week or two after you plant it, and the whole area turns into just a magic carpet. You watch it all summer long, and then it comes to a golden yellow/brown at harvest, and you just get that feeling that I did this. I provided part of this 500,000-acres in this valley for people around the world to use. It just hits home, I’ll tell you.” May is a spectacularly busy month for rice seeding in California. Pilots frequently work before sunup and after sundown to keep up with the workload.  One of the biggest advancements in this effort is Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, which provides tremendous accuracy for the pilots, who often exceed 100-mph while seeding fields.  Safety is a crucial element for ag pilots, who operate under strict state and federal regulations.  Richter said an extremely helpful program is the Professional Aerial Applicator Support System (PASSS Program), which has been running for more than 20 years, and has proven to lower accident rates. The role agricultural pilots play in farming is huge. Rice grower Kurt Richter relies on the pinpoint work of his cousin Rick and Rick’s son, Nick, to seed his rice fields. “The pilot plays a huge role in the quality of the product that you’re going to put out at the end of the season,” Kurt said.  “The seed application just in and of itself is one of the most important applications of the year…. A good quality pilot can definitely make or break any particular crop.” Here are more comments from Kurt on the important role agricultural pilots play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKA5CDchSX8 For more information on agricultural pilots, here’s a link to the California Agricultural Aircraft Association. Episode Transcript Jim Morris: California rice holds many surprises. Whether it's the vital wildlife connection, the scale and efficiency of growing and milling rice, or the billions of dollars this industry generates for our economy, the impacts are huge. One of the most surprising facets of California rice is happening here in mid spring, planting the crop via airplane, and it is an amazing process. Jim Morris: Welcome to Ingrained, the California Rice Podcast. I'm your host, Jim Morris, and I've been helping farmers and ranchers tell their story for 30 years. I'm in the Sacramento Valley today covering an important part of the rice growing season. Jim Morris: I'm in Colusa County speaking with Rick Richter of Richter Aviation, and you've been an ag pilot for more than 40 years. Let's start with the early days. What was your background and what interested you in this profession? Rick Richter: Well Jim, I started out with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from Chico State College. It was just so hard back then to try to get into farming, which was what I wanted to do. I had a passion for aviation, so I learned to fly while going to Chico State. When I got to Maxwell, I was looking for opportunities to work and my cousin had just started this business here east of Maxwell, crop dusting business, in 1976. It was perfect timing for me. I talked with him, Paul Richter, and he made a spot for me and we started loading airplanes, and from then it grew to flying their planes, and, three years later, in 1979 was my first a year as an ag pilot. Jim Morris: And so 41 years in, that's an amazing run. How many flights or hours would that be in the air? Rick Richter: Jim, that's about 22,000 hours to date, counting all my flying, which isn't much in the general aviation side. It's mostly ag flying. Jim Morris: Do you ever have dreams about flying when you're resting or can you leave the 9:00 to 5:00 at the office? Rick Richter: It's tough. It's tough. This is our life this time of year. We do five months out here from May to August in the rice business. It's a every day, 4:00 in the morning until dark. Sometimes in the summer, usually around the 4th of July, we'll get a break and start getting Sundays off, so it's kind of a treat for us. Jim Morris: It is a busy time right now in the spring. Tell me what an average day looks like in terms of seeding the rice fields. Rick Richter: Well we're up at 4:00 in the morning, we're here at 5:00 to 6:00, the crews roll in, we're out on the jobs by 6:30 and from then until dark sometimes we're out, depending on the workload. Jim Morris: What happens when they're seeding? You have a pre-germinated seed. I mean, just walk me through some of the major steps in it. It's fascinating to see that seed being loaded. They're working like an Indy pit crew, I think. Rick Richter: Oh yeah, we pride ourselves on the speed that it takes, that we can get the load out. The seed is soaked for at least 24 hours prior to our applications. It's brought to us in bulk trailers, bulk semi-truck trailers, to the airstrips, usually the closest strip within two miles of the field so we can make our turnarounds quicker and get more done. Jim Morris: What speed can you travel? What's the highest speed and what's the lowest altitude you might be traveling depending on the circumstances of each rice farm? Rick Richter: Well, we're probably seeding rice about 30 feet in the air, depending on the wind. The windier conditions require a lower altitude, but spraying, we're within 10 feet of the crop and going about 120 to 130 miles per hour on some of the more modern turbine aircraft. Some of the faster ones will go up to 150, and that's moving fast compared to the old days when it was just 100 miles an hour in an old Ag Cat. The professional ag pilots that we have nowadays don't leave anything for granted. We take pride in what we do and we want to be there for our children and our families at the end of the day. Jim Morris: Talk about the change in technology since when you started and the importance of global positioning system, GPS. Rick Richter: GPS is the biggest breakthrough that's ever come to this industry, and it just changed it forever. It's amazing we can get within three feet of our swath and multiple swaths at a time, the fields all laid out for us, hardly any problems. It's just amazing what it did. It took away the job from the flaggers and the crews that we had to position on each field, and it allowed it for much more efficiency in the operation. Jim Morris: The term crop duster comes up a lot, much more than the term ag pilot. What's the name that you think is most fitting? Rick Richter: Crop duster is just an old moniker from the back of the old days when they dusted crops. But nowadays they're professional pilots. We are required to have training, continuing education every year, licensed by the state, licensed by the Federal Aviation Regulations as commercial pilots. And the operators are actually licensed as commercial ag operators. So there's plenty of regulation in our business. We take it in stride. We understand that we need to have that to keep our skills honed and to protect the crop protection materials. Jim Morris: You have the good fortune of working with your son. When did that start and how does that make you feel, because you're getting closer to retirement? Rick Richter: It just makes me feel great. He's such a major link in this operation. We're getting in the process of turning it over to him. It's kind of hard for me to let go of the reins. The good thing about it, he understands that, and he's taking that in stride. He knows that someday it'll be all his to worry about. Jim Morris: This is Nick, and you have a traditional looking yellow airplane and he has a white one that looks a little different. Now I'm no aviation expert. Tell me the difference of what you fly and what Nick flies. Rick Richter: Well I'm flying a 1979 biplane, and he's flying a 2011 Thrush S2R with a Pratt Whitney engine on it. It goes faster. It carries the same amount of speed, but it's a sleeker, modern-looking airplane, probably the wave of the future. The old biplanes are kind of being in a thing of the past, but they're good, strong, sturdy airplanes and they're more suited to our country where the fields are maybe smaller. You can get a tighter turn out of it. But he enjoys that speed and the wider swath that he gets with the larger wing on that airplane. Jim Morris: With the COVID-19 crisis, agriculture has rightly been deemed an essential industry. And, of course, it's easy here in Maxwell to see that with farms and farm-related industries. But what's your comment about the value of agriculture to California? Rick Richter: It's worth so much to our economy here in California. I'm not sure of the numbers, but just the rice business alone contribute so much to the local economy. Everybody's job in this area depends on rice. Jim Morris: How do you feel when people are eating a rice bowl or risotto, paella, sushi, et cetera, you had a hand in that? Rick Richter: Well, I sure did. I've been to restaurants in the South that have used California medium grain rice in their sushi. I tell them all about it. I say, "Hey, I know where that came from." Jim Morris: Rick, tell me a little bit about your level of pride. You're coming to the end of your career. You've done a lot. You and other ag pilots have done a lot to keep rice on tables. Rick Richter: It's so rewarding to see that rice come up and, it's beautiful green after you plant it within a week or two, and the whole area turns into just a magic carpet. You watch it all summer long, and then it comes to golden yellow-brown at harvest. And you just get that feeling that I did this. I provided part of this 500,000-acres in this valley for the people around the world to use. And it's just, it hits home, I'll tell you. Jim Morris: Farming in California is all about family and there are connections even between growers and pilots. I'm visiting with Kurt Richter, rice grower. Tell me your connection with Rick Richter. Kurt Richter: Well, Rick is a cousin of ours. We share a common ancestor that was actually our original immigrant to California from the area that's now known as Germany. Rick and my father, Paul Richter, were connected from childhood all the way up. Rick has always done all the applications for our family's farming operation. Jim Morris: How important are the pilots to what you do? Kurt Richter: A pilot plays a huge role in the quality of the product that you're going to put out at the end of the season. The seed application just in and of itself is one of the most important applications of the year. For the application to be done in a nice, even way where it's spread out, no skips, no overlaps, no bunching coming out of the bottom of the airplane, so a good quality pilot can definitely make or break any particular crop. Jim Morris: Planting season's never easy. There's always hurdles to clear, but how are things going? Kurt Richter: It has definitely been a year of hurdles. We faced water cuts early and made it past that hurdle. Then we faced aqua shortages and we've now passed that hurdle. And now we've got rain, so it's just, any given week, any number of issues that can crop up, but we're used to this in California rice. We've battled out the weather many times in the last few years and all these other problems are things that come up from time to time. And so you just have to have contingency plans and a strategy for how to work around those issues. And, for our operation at least, I feel like we've done pretty well. We're on track to be wrapped up here very soon. Jim Morris: After planting, it does not take long for the rice plants to emerge. So, throughout the summer, when you're heading north of Sacramento, keep an eye out for those beautiful green rice fields. That wraps up this episode. Thanks so much to Rick Richter of Richter Aviation and Kurt Richter of Richter Ag for their insight. A reminder that there's much more at podcast.calrice.org, including photos and video of rice seeding. Please subscribe to our podcast and send us your questions and comments. Thanks for listening.

Zapraszam do wysłuchania kolejnego odcinka podcastu “Urzeczywistnij swoje JA! .. odważna kobieto!”. Od razu zaznaczam, że jest to odcinek inny niż wszystkie, jest to odcinek nagrany w innej innej formule. A mianowicie ja odpowiadam, a nie pytam. Dlaczego tak? Zacznijmy od początku. Od ponad roku mam ogromną przyjemność wspierać wewnętrzną grupę kobiet z pewnej międzynarodowej organizacji - grupę o pięknej nazwie WING, czyli Women Inspiration &Networking Group. Grupę tę tworzą odważne kobiety pracujące w organizacji Pratt & Whitney, dość męskiej organizacji z branży lotniczej. Misją tej grupy jest właśnie wspieranie kobiet poprzez budowanie sieci wsparcia i dawanie inspiracji w obszarach zawodowych, jak i osobistych. Ponieważ nie prędko uda nam się ponownie spotkać osobiście, zdecydowałyśmy się na rozmowę, na spotkanie w takiej formie. Po drugiej stronie mikrofonu spotkałam się więc z Elżbietą Sidor, która w stowarzyszeniu WI&NG pełni funkcję Vice prezydent'ki. I tym razem Ela pytała, a ja odpowiadałam. Szczerze, wszystko przed tą rozmową było „nie tak” – dzieci nie chciały zasnąć, sprzęt szwankował, internet się rwał, a u Eli pojawiła się typowa jak na debiut trema. Tak! Taka forma rozmowy była i jest Eli debiutem, więc brawa dla Niej za odwagę!Ale do tej rozmowy bardzo motywowały nas wspólne wartości i głębokie przekonanie, że bardzo chcemy porozmawiać „o nas kobietach w czasie pandemii”. Czułyśmy, że bardzo chcemy ofiarować kobietom i refleksję i zrozumienie dla naszych emocji i doświadczeń. Że chcemy nagrać tę rozmowę właśnie teraz, w tym czasie, który nie jest dla nas najłatwiejszy szczególnie, gdy jest się kobietą pracującą i mamą. W tym odcinku rozmawiamy więc o:•o odwadze, o tym jak ją dziś rozumieć?•o zmianach, jak je przeżywamy? •o emocjach, •o perfekcjonizmie, który w przypadku niepewności i strachu może nam się bardzo mocno udzielać, •rozmawiamy też trochę o empatii dla siebie, o byciu życzliwą i życzliwym dla siebie, •puszczamy też oczko do liderów, by pamiętali o tym, że relacje są ważne, a może najważniejsze właśnie dziś. Ale przede wszystkim rozmawiamy o tym, dlaczego może być nam „trudno”.Rozmawiamy o tym, skąd się może brać nasze kobiecie zmęczenie.Posłuchajcie i podejdźcie do nas, do siebie z wyrozumiałością. Wiemy, że ta rozmowa nie jest idealna, ale właśnie o tym rozmawiamy, by "puścić" perfekcjonizm. By nie żyć w kajdanach idealnych założeń i wyobrażeń o sobie, czy innych. Dużo zdrowia!Marta Iwanowska-PolkowskaA jeżeli chcecie nawiązać kontakt z Elą, to możecie znaleźć ją między innymi na linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elzbieta-sidor-6a1203a3/

In this conversation, the second of a four-part series on mentorship, SSPI Director of Development and Innovation Lou Zacharilla speaks with three women mentors and leaders of the industry. Dr. Jennifer Dawson is the Staff Functional Safety Engineer with the Toyota Research Institute.  Before that, she worked at Space Systems Loral as the Technical Director for Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites, as Head of Safety and Technical Program Manager at Nuro and as a researcher at Stanford University, where she developed a cryogenic test facility, conducted experiments on a superconducting position sensor, defined requirements, and fabricated and tested customized electrical connectors. Dr. Dawson received a Promise Award from SSPI in 2016 and was also responsible for nominating the 2019 Mentor of the Year, Rob Lyon, whom you heard from in Episode 1. Penelope Longbottom is a member of the Space & Satellite Hall of Fame who has devoted her career to explaining satellites as one of the industry’s premiere public relations executives. She served in a variety of jobs, from Director of Communications and later Vice President at Hughes to Senior Marketing Communications Executive with Lockheed Martin Intersputnik, Lockheed Martin Space & Strategic Missiles and XM Satellite Radio. While at Hughes, Penelope was key to the promotion of DirectTV and America’s first Mobile Satellite System. She founded Longbottom Communications and merged the company with Sage Communications one decade later. Penelope has been a relentless advocate for more space for women in the industry and has been a mentor to dozens. Nicole Stott was seen recently in super bowl commercial with Busy Philipps and Lilly Singh riding the first Olay rocket! It was her third mission to space. Nicole is a retired NASA astronaut who performed two important missions on the International Space Station, where she served as flight engineer for Expeditions 20 and 21. She was a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Missions 128 and 133. Nicole began her career as a Structural Design Engineer with Pratt & Whitney. She was the first astronaut to have a picture taken with the SSPI logo from space.

On Thursday, March 12, 2020, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the biggest one-day percentage drops since October of 1987 — and the Nasdaq joined the Dow in bear-market territory, which is commonly defined as a drop of at least 20% -- as fears of the coronavirus grow, coupled with oil wars and uncertainties around the 2020 Presidential election. Friday, March 13th, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the US. Soon after, stocks started to rally in late trading. These are scary, volatile times. What does it mean for real estate investors?  The record-setting 11-year bull run for stocks has come to a screeching halt. Is the party over or is this just a temporary hiccup? Or cough? Today's guest has been on the Real Wealth Show before sharing his insights on the strongest U.S. markets for residential and commercial real estate. John Boyd is Principal of The Boyd Company, which was founded in 1975,  and provides real estate and management counsel to leading North American banking and financial services companies. Clients include  Boeing, Chevron, JP Morgan Chase,  Visa International, Pratt & Whitney, PepsiCo, UPS, and other Fortune 500 firms.   www.RealWealthShow.com  

141 GoFly Prize - $2 Million Dollar Contest to Create a VTOL Aircraft Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance, or to take my online seminar: So You Want to Fly or Buy a Cirrus. Please help support the show with a donation via PayPal or Patreon. Send us an email If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone. Summary141 Max attended the final fly off for $1,000,000, the largest prize of the GoFly Prize competition, and he talks with GoFly founder and CEO Gwen Lighter and DragonAir’s Mariah Cain. Boeing sponsored the $1,000,000 prize and Pratt& Whitney sponsored the $100,000 Disrupter prize. There were three phases to the competition and 855 teams entered from 103 countries. Mentioned in the Show GoFly Prize websiteGoFly Prize Master LecturesGoFly Prize GuidelinesGoFly Prize Facebook pageDragonAir AviationDragonAir Facebook pageTeam teTra website Videos Mentioned in the Show DragonAir Aviation 17-minute Flight Video If you love the show and want more, visit my Patreon page to see fun videos, breaking news, and other posts in the Posts section. And if you decide to make a small donation each month,  you can get some goodies! So You Want To Learn to Fly or Buy a Cirrus seminars Online Version of the Seminar Coming Soon - Register for Notification Check out our recommended ADS-B receivers, and order one for yourself. Yes, we'll make a couple of dollars if you do. Check out our recommended Aviation Headsets, and order one for yourself! Get the Free Aviation News Talk app for iOS or Android. Social Media Like Max on Facebook Follow Max on Instagram Follow Max on Twitter Follow Max on YouTube Listen to all Aviation News Talk podcasts on YouTube or YouTube Premium Max Trescott is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

La Dirección General de Aviación Civil de la India publicó que, tras una serie de pruebas realizadas, los motores Pratt & Whitney de los aviones A320neo no deberán de ser llevados a una potencia total (conocido en inglés como full thrust) durante la fase de ascenso, porque esto deriva en un desgaste más rápido que probablemente ha contribuido a fallas de motores en vuelos recientes. Nuevos episodios de Lunes a Viernes 9 AM MEX. Descarga nuestra revista completamente gratis en la página de internet https://www.oleanadvisors.com/revista Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales @oleanadvisors en Facebook, Twitter, e Instagram. Contenido exclusivo para PATREONS en patreon.com/oleanmx Negocios: oleanadvisors@gmail.com

Join Carlos, Matt and Armando for today's programme. In this week's episode there's a ground collision Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, a Leeds based airline is named best UK short haul airline and your route through the airport could be getting much faster thanks to biometrics. In the Military the US Air Force are picking up some new light attack aircraft and Rolls Royce sign a $1.2Bn engine maintenance contract with the Marine Corps. In our latest interview from the Dubai Air Show, Nev talks to Jim Speich from Pratt & Whitney. Here are the links to the stories we featured this week : COMMERCIAL 1. https://simpleflying.com/ethiopian-a350-turkish-a330-collision/ 2.https://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/crime/pair-accused-shining-laser-pens-ryanair-flights-and-police-helicopter-1326430 3. https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/worlds-shortest-flight-british-airways-3583305 4. https://www.hmgaerospace.com/news/lara/jet2-com-named-best-short-haul-airline-in-british-travel-awards/ 5. https://www.airlineratings.com/news/qatar-airways-celebrates-10-years-serving-australia/ 6. https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/british-airways-a350-damaged-in-paint-shop/ 7. https://simpleflying.com/airbus-part-falls-toulouse/ 8. https://simpleflying.com/airbus-100th-a220/ 9. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/airbus-jets-flying-close-reduce-fuel-costs 10. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cefd7f5&opt=0 11. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/sita-upbeat-airport-biometric-solutions-will-take-o-462528/ 12. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrosen/2019/11/27/the-2020-list-of-the-worlds-best-airlines-is-out-now/#35cc0f916e3d MILITARY 1. https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-light-attack-aircraft-a29-at6-contracts 2. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a29834199/worlds-largest-fighter-jet-collection/ 3. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/private-aerial-refueller-omega-buys-kdc-10-tankers-462520/ 4. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/r-r-scores-12b-contract-for-us-v-22-engine-mainten-462578/

Jeff Cope, Founder and CEO of InspectionXpert, has a passion for helping precision manufacturers transform inefficient, paper procedures into efficient, standardized, fully traceable and secure digital processes. Having made the transition from a manufacturing engineer to mechanical design engineer earlier in his career, Jeff was uniquely placed to quickly grasp the challenges facing precision manufacturers in their day-to-day operations. Jeff identified a glaring gap in the market for a quality inspection software which would help precision manufacturers eliminate paper in the manufacturing and quality inspection process. Teaching himself how to code, Jeff wrote the first InspectionXpert programme in 2004 which simplified quality checking processes and ensured a greater accountability over the QA chain. InspectionXpert was born, and today the company counts the likes of Pratt & Whitney, Kohler, Boeing, Airbus, NASA and Virgin Galactica as part of its 1,000 strong, global client base.

Airbus informó que casi un tercio de sus aviones A320neo con motores Pratt & Whitney se ven afectados por un nuevo problema en el motor que ha obligado al fabricante de aviones europeo a detener algunas entregas del popular avión de fuselaje estrecho. Nuevos episodios de Lunes a Viernes 9 AM MEX. Descarga nuestra revista completamente gratis en la página de internet https://www.oleanadvisors.com/revista Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales @oleanadvisors en Facebook, Twitter, e Instagram. Contenido exclusivo para PATREONS en patreon.com/oleanmx Negocios: oleanadvisors@gmail.com

Welcome friends to the Someone Gets Me podcast. I am your host Dianne Allen and I am delighted you are here. This podcast was created because I believe there is a visionary leader inside each one of us who is waiting to be seen. In each episode of Someone Gets Me you will hear useful tips from successful Visionaries who will share their stories about how being seen allowed them to take their Vision into Action.   In this episode, I interview Sheryl Nicholson, CSP who is a dynamic speaker, podcaster, author, mother and amazing colleague. Sheryl shares openly about business, family and the importance of having a balanced life.   Topics I discuss include: Women in Leadership Get A Life Balanced podcast and YouTube Channel GetaLifeBalanced.com Learning to trust yourself Being authentic in business relationships LINKS MENTIONED Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me  Follow our Dianne’s Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen, Visionary Leadership Mentor Email contact: msdianneallen@gmail.com Dianne’s Mentoring Services: someonegetsme.com/services To learn more about Dianne’s books and events: visionsapplied.com Sheryl’s Website: sheryl.com   Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!   More about Sheryl:  International Professional Speaker United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland   Certified Speaking Professional Awarded the top 8% in the Speaking Industry       Past Member of National Speakers Assoc 1988 – 2005 George Morrisey Lifetime Achievement Award Inspirational Woman of the Year   Business Experience Facilitated brain-storming and mastermind groups for various industries. 20+ years interviewing, hiring, training and coaching employees in various industries. Increased sales 330% in 6 months for real estate developer and 20% for Retail Store in THIS tough economy   Nationally Published Business Author Published in Inc., Success, Entrepreneur, The Futurist, Home Office Computing, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Health Care Access, HR Review, etc. New York Times Best Seller Inspirational Contributing Author Published in Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Christmas Soul, Chocolate for the Woman’s Heart and Soul.     Nationally Published Life Balance Author Published in YM, Parents, Woman’s Day, Women’s World, Ladies Home Journal Real Women, ME Magazine, Living in Balance, Personal Excellence and more.   Media Guest and Spokes Model Interviewed monthly on various radio stations.  Internet interviews from “Expert Websites” are posted for 24-hour playtime.  Interviewed for News Stories as a People Productivity Expert on CBS, Fox, NBC etc. Spokesperson and model for various corporate clients.   PARTIAL Client List IBM, Builders Association, US Air Force, Pitney Bowes, CIA, Nations Bank, DCMA, United Way, AAHAM, Pratt Whitney, US Patent and Trademark, Time Inc., NRO, Autozone, Tech Data, Pharmacists Associations, Chiropractic Associations, Urology Associations, City of Kissimmee, City of Sarasota, Nestles UK, Royal Mail UK, Lee Moffit Cancer Center, NAWBO, Suttle Apparatus, GE Capital, SunTrust, Publix, PMI, Florida Schools,  Hospitals, Non-Profits, Chambers, and various Associations.   Podcaster Weekly Podcast with work-life balance strategies entitled Get a Life Balanced heard on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and www.GetaLifeBalanced.com  As a People Productivity Expert ™ Sheryl focuses on the Power Skills to make a business successful…Increasing Sales, Presentation Skills, Communication Strategies, Goal Setting, Leadership Training, Team Building and Life Balance.        

  FCME uploads new episodes every Monday & Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. MST. Topics include proposal writing, bonds, types of contracts, why do business with the federal government, 8(a), business services for veterans and women, where federal opportunities are listed, and more. You can listen to the podcast here or with your favorite podcast provider (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher). FCME is also active on social media and launched the Federal Contracting Made Easy YouTube channel on January 1, 2019.   Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   054 How To Become a Government Subcontractor? Introduction Please help support our podcast by purchasing from our store. https://teespring.com/stores/federal-contracting-made-easy We all know that the government is the largest buyer of products and services in the world. The competition is fierce for prime contractors. As a result, there are companies that are building relationships with these prime contractors in hopes of receiving a subcontract. Many small businesses have gotten into government contracting by utilizing this method. The goal of today’s episode is to introduce you to subcontracting. So let’s get on with it. What is a Subcontractor? A prime contractor is the one that received the contract from the government. A prime contractor is the point of contact on this contract and deals directly with the customer. Whereas, a subcontractor participates with the prime contractor to help complete the project for the client. As a subcontractor your contract is with the prime contractor. Simple enough! Consequently, depending on the contract a subcontractor plan may be required. Subcontracting Plan Federal contracts may require a subcontracting plan. When they do, the prime contractor must hire subcontractors. When is a subcontracting plan required? Well, that depends on the contract value and type of work being performed. Large prime contractors with contracts for goods and/or services other than construction, valued greater than $700,000 must establish subcontracting plans and goals for subcontracting with small businesses. For those prime contractors in the construction industry they will require subcontracting plans when the contract is greater than $1.5 Million. What does this mean to you? In short, it opens the doors for small businesses to become subcontractors. FCME uploads new episodes every Monday & Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. MST. Topics include proposal writing, bonds, types of contracts, why do business with the federal government, 8(a), business services for veterans and women, where federal opportunities are listed, and more. You can listen to the podcast here or with your favorite podcast provider (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher). FCME is also active on social media and launched the Federal Contracting Made Easy YouTube channel on January 1, 2019. Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   Steps to Become a Subcontractor to a Prime Government Contractor? Next, we are going to list the steps to streamline the process of becoming a subcontractor. In short, just follow these steps to get ready to become a subcontractor. Step 1. Get Your Official Paperwork in Order 1. To protect your personal assets from liability you must structure your entity correctly. 2. DUNS Registration. This is your business credit score. 3. Register in the System for Award Management (SAM.GOV). This registration is free, and it is essential for being paid by the government and government contractors.   After your paperwork is in order go to step 2. Step 2. Research Agencies and Prime contractor directories for subcontracting needs. Now that your paperwork is in order it is time to research prime contractors and find opportunities within our niche. Many federal agencies have Subcontracting Opportunity Directories that you can review. The U.S. Small Business Administration has a database called SubNet which allows large prime contractors to post opportunities for small businesses to serve as subcontractors. I have known many small businesses that have used this system to find prime contractors. General Services Administration (GSA) has a subcontracting directory for small businesses that are looking for subcontracting opportunities with prime contractors. The directory lists large business prime contractors that are required to have subcontracting plans and goals for subcontracting with small businesses. The Department of Defense (DoD) has a similar directory for large prime contractors that small businesses can use to find subcontracting opportunities. We have listed a few resources to help you get started finding subcontracting opportunities. Let us know if you find more. In the meantime, use the websites above to get started. FCME uploads new episodes every Monday & Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. MST. Topics include proposal writing, bonds, types of contracts, why do business with the federal government, 8(a), business services for veterans and women, where federal opportunities are listed, and more. You can listen to the podcast here or with your favorite podcast provider (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher). FCME is also active on social media and launched the Federal Contracting Made Easy YouTube channel on January 1, 2019. Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   As you can see, the government wants large prime contractors to use subcontractors. They have even gone out of their way to make it easy for you to find these opportunities. Don't wait start using these listings now. After you have completed step 2 move on to step 3. Step 3. Attend Outreach Events Now that step 2 has been completed it is time to find outreach events to attend. Many prime contractors will hold outreach events, publish notice of sources sought, or solicitation for subcontract work. To start, you will need to create a Capability Statement to share with government contracting officers and prime government contractors. Don’t know what a Capability Statement is or how to write one? See our video here. Where are these events held? These events are held all over the country. See the list below for events that you may want to attend if you cannot locate one close to you. To find more opportunities use Federal Business Opportunities and search special notices. Lots of time the government will list opportunities there. 1. GCO Consulting Group is an SDVOSB that holds events in the Washington DC metro area. 2. Solvability is a government contracting consulting firm which holds annual events in Florida GovCon Summit. 3. AFCEA West connects military and government leaders with industry professionals. 4. National 8(a) Association Small Business Conference brings together small, minority and 8(a) businesses and offers educational sessions and resources.   After you have completed this step go on to step 4. Step 4. Research Prime Contractor Websites Prime contractors know that they cannot win a government contract unless they have a pool of subcontractors that they can refer to. Therefore, most large prime contractors’ websites contain information for potential subcontractors. These websites will explain how to register with the large prime contractor and the types of small businesses they are looking for.  Below are a few prime contractor websites for you. Please note that these prime contractors are not listed in any order. Top Prime Contractors (Not all listed) • L3 Technologies - https://www.l3t.com/suppliers/small-business • Boeing - http://www.boeingsuppliers.com/ • Honeywell - https://www.honeywell.com/contact-us/small-business • Pratt & Whitney - https://www.pw.utc.com/company/doing-business-with-us • Lockheed Martin Corporation - https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/suppliers/information.htmlhttps://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/suppliers/information.html • General Dynamics - https://www.gd.com/suppliers/become-supplier • Raytheon - https://www.raytheon.com/suppliers • Kiewit - https://www.kiewit.com/services/procurement/ • PCL Constructors Inc. - https://www.pcl.com/Partners-in-Building/Pages/Subcontractor-and-Supplier-Registration.aspx   We have only listed a small portion of prime contractors above. You will need to spend some time and find prime contractors within your geographical area. Once you have your registered on the website it would be a good idea to start building a relationship with the procurement person within the company. Call and setup a meeting to introduce yourself and discuss your capabilities with them. Give them a copy of your Capability Statement. Remember to follow up after the meeting and continually after the meeting. After you have been to some meetings it is time to go to the next step. Step 5. Prepare your administrative and accounting requirements for being a subcontractor. Before you start work as a subcontractor you will need to ensure that you are familiar with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR) and other acronyms that the government uses. Even though you are not the prime contractor you need to understand what is required of you. • You will need to become familiar with the rules and regulations associated with government contracting. For example, FAR Subpart 19.7 The Small Business Subcontracting Program and DFARS Subpart 219.7 (Remember DFARS is the supplement to the FAR for DoD). Also, you will need to get up to speed on FAR Part 44 Subcontracting Policies and Procedures. • Explore training opportunities with SBA, DoD or PTAC. SBA has online and in class training opportunities available. For online opportunities go here. For in class opportunities see your local SBA office. • Have you established internal financial controls and are they in compliance with Generally Acceptable Accounting Practices (GAAP)? If you do not know please contact your accountant. If you don’t have an accountant, then you will need to get one. It is advisable to have a good accountant, and attorney that you can reach out too. Don't think of these professionals as an expense but rather there are part of your team. The same goes for your bonding agent. • Will your company need a loan if awarded a contract? Look at financing options BEFORE you need one. It is better to have funding available before you need it.   Once you have completed this section it is time to make sure you know your correct set-aside. After you finish the above steps move on. What is Your Business Ownership Status? What percentage of the business do you own? Is it greater than or equal to 51%? Why do I ask? Because in order to qualify for set-aside’s you will have to declare your ownership percentage. If you do not own at least 51% or more of a company than you cannot claim that status. Also certain certifications require that you be certified by SBA. For example, you cannot claim the 8(a) or HUBZone status unless SBA has issued that status to you. Why does this matter in subcontracting? Because government agencies will define goals for their contractors for specific types of set-asides for certain certifications. The certifications include, but are not limited to 8(a) BD companies, HUBZone companies, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and Woman-Owned Small Business. In other articles we discussed each of these set-asides in detail. If you are not familiar with them check out our other articles. It is important to make sure that you claim the correct set-aside for your business. If you misrepresent yourself, the government can take action against you. Or worse, you could be suspended or debarred from government contracts.  Now that you have declared your set-aside status it is time to move on. Do I need any documents as a Subcontractor? Do I need to have a license? The prime contractor and the industry in which you are in will determine the documents. A license will be needed if you are seeking subcontract work that otherwise requires state or federal licensing. If you are not sure that your business requires a license check with your State's Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. In addition, to the documents mentioned in step 1. Other documentation you will need to consider creating include: • A Capability Statement. This is a marketing document that will be required as a prime or subcontractor. • Proof of General Liability Insurance Coverage. The amount required will be dependent on the industry. Your company may also be required to obtain bonding. This is industry specific. If you are in the construction industry you will need bonding. Why would bonding be required? Doesn't the prime contractor take care of the bond? Your prime contractor may require that you bond your portion of the job. This is especially true if a large portion of the work to be performed is by one subcontractor. • Proposal Documentation to submit to the Prime Contractor. For more information see FAR 15.404-3.   Small Business Financing Because the government pays prime contractors after invoicing, it is necessary for subcontractors to have access to enough financing to cover the period between beginning the work and receiving the invoice payments. You could be required to demonstrate the availability of financing prior to being award a subcontract as part of showing the financial sustainability of your business. You can obtain a financial capability letter from a lender. By the way, if you are having difficulty obtaining financing, consider using SBA’s 7a loan program. Contact your local SBA office or your lender for more information. Conclusion Becoming a subcontractor is a great way to get familiar with the government contracting. The information that we have gone over is a great way for you to get started as a subcontractor.   FCME uploads new episodes every Monday & Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. MST. Topics include proposal writing, bonds, types of contracts, why do business with the federal government, 8(a), business services for veterans and women, where federal opportunities are listed, and more. You can listen to the podcast here or with your favorite podcast provider (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher). FCME is also active on social media and launched the Federal Contracting Made Easy YouTube channel on January 1, 2019. Website Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   Please remember to subscribe to our podcast, and YouTube channels as we provide more information in future episodes. Please help support our podcast by purchasing from our store. https://teespring.com/stores/federal-contracting-made-easy

Delta Technical Operations opened a 150,000-lb. thrust engine test cell on Feb. 21 that it says has the highest thrust rating in the world. With its first Trent XWB visit finished and its ramp up to support next-gen Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney engines, Don Mitacek, Delta Airlines Technical Operations senior vice president and Jack Arehart, VP MRO Services, talk with Aviation Week’s Lee Ann Shay in Atlanta about how it is preparing its business for $1 billion annual revenues.

If you enjoy listening to my podcast, please take a minute to leave a review here! Today you will hear a power-packed Episode with a world-class CIO. My guest today is David DiLeo, the Chief Information Officer at Industrial Scientific. If you aspire and dream of a big job as a CIO and then land there, what would you do next? Well, 5-1/2 years ago, David landed at Industrial Scientific. What he and his team have achieved during that time has been remarkable. As CIO, David is responsible for the information technology needs of Industrial Scientific which includes leading a large and diverse technical team comprised of ERP, business applications, application development, business intelligence, IT security, global infrastructure, and support functions. This team represents a world-class IT organization with capabilities that deliver high quality and data-driven solutions to both internal and external customers. If you want to hear about good old-fashioned project management delivered at a world-class level, this Podcast is for you. Here are some areas we cover: Changing the Brand of IT. How to create a scalable IT organization to support a business. Changing IT from “Reactive” to “Proactive” – This is impressive since it was delivered in the midst of tremendous complexity and scale – not just lip service or words that everyone in business wants to hear from top CIO’s. Project management can give you the broadest understanding of business. See why the path to David’s CIO role – a progression of technical, project management, middle management, and then senior management roles – was significant. The powerful impact of IoT in his world. How he integrated top-notch security into his environment following risk-based and security-by-design principles. How people (good people) joined him on the journey to transform the business. How he remains grounded and balanced. His vision for himself and the business over the next few years. This is only a small subsection of what you will learn from listening, enjoy! Major Take-Aways from This Episode: How to focus on delivering value first by partnering as a consultant with the business. Benefits of segmenting types of project management depending on risk, Agile/lean vs. Waterfall tactics and techniques. How to strategically use 3rd-party vendors to outsource low-value commodity work and retain high-skill, high-value skills in-house. How to use security to add offense capabilities and remove latency in the sales process. Read the Full Transcript Here About David DiLeo: David DiLeo joined Industrial Scientific in 2013 as the Global Director of Information Technology and was promoted to Chief Information Officer in September 2015. Now as CIO, David is responsible for the information technology needs of this leading gas detection, safety analytics, and connected device (IoT) company. Previously, David was the VP & Director of Quality Assurance, Strategic Information & Risk Technology, at PNC Financial Services Group. He also served as the IT Group Manager of Integrated Service Solutions at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., where he was responsible for managing the development and operations of Pratt & Whitney’s real-time advanced diagnostic engine monitoring solution. He earned his MBA from the University of Hartford and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Central Connecticut State University. He also holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute, and a certification in quality and process improvement (ACE Associate) from United Technologies Corp. He is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma, International Honor Society. How to get in touch with David DiLeo: LinkedIn Twitter Key Resources + Links: CIO Review, Industrial Scientific Blazes a Trail in IoT – how Industrial Scientific uses IoT to innovate on the product level. CIO Review, Refining Quality for a Safer Community – David DiLeo explains how Industrial Scientific is firmly planted in the IoT and big data space and his focus on maturing and establishing upstream QA processes into both software development processes. Toggle Magazine Article, David DiLeo – Industrial Scientific: On-the-Job Safety is the Real Gas. Sync Magazine Articles, Industrial Scientific Empowers IT to Drive Business, Save Lives – How David DiLeo has pivoted his IT team away from answering help tickets and toward leading the way. Industrial Scientific provides gas detection gas detection devices and services across a variety of business sectors. This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes. Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you’re doing this for the first time. About Bill Murphy Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Today's guest is a powerhouse. Nicole Kappos is a Director at the engine manufacturing company, Pratt & Whitney. In this episode, we discuss how to attract more women into the aviation field and how to keep them in the industry and make them feel like a vital part of the team.

Today we are talking to JonnaGerken, President of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) 2018 and Program Chief Manufacturing Engineering (PCME) team within the Core Manufacturing Engineering organization at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Jonna is finishing her term for the FY 2018. In this episode, she shares great advice for women, mothers, and young girls around the world. Jonna has achieved amazing things in her life including a BS in industrial engineering and an MBA in technology development from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. SWE has almost 40,000 members organization serves over 400 sections & groups around the world to encourage more women to enter and stay in engineering fields. Listen now to Jonna's incredible STEM story. Links:   Main SWE website SWENext Program, including SWE Clubs research.swe.org- research page (https://research.swe.org/category/swe-research/and click on Culture Study for the one I referenced.    

Crystal has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and professional experience in engineering, logistics and operations management. She has worked in engineering and management positions for notable companies such as Pratt & Whitney, Dow Chemical Company and Union Pacific Railroad. Crystal’s experience as a minority woman, coming from an underserved community and advancing to a career in mechanical engineering, sparked the idea to create an organization that would offer underserved young women equal opportunity to pursue professional careers. She wanted to create an organization that would help disadvantaged young women receive free mentorship and professional etiquette training that would help them through school, encourage them to pursue college, and inspire them to pursue professional careers. Her nonprofit organization was founded and started in Austin, TX on December 19, 2016 as a passion project and personal, divine assignment from God. As the CEO & Founder of The Proverbs 31 Women’s Organization, Crystal leads and manages the organization’s Board of Directors and program operations to provide free mentorship and professional etiquette training classes to underserved young women across the state of Texas. She also owns a consulting company, Brand Your Biz, that specializes in nonprofit consulting, working with brands through social media marketing, and helping entrepreneurs, bloggers and social media influencers build and expand their brands online. To learn more about Crystal', check out her website: www.crystalngumezi,com, and follow her on Instagram & Twitter: @crystalngumezi.

David Wang is a genius-level engineer and computer scientist. He got a PhD at MIT focusing on planning for autonomous systems. He also holds degrees in techniques for improving software reliability, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Electrical Engineering, & Computer Science from MIT. His work experience includes time at JPL, Draper Labs, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, and DARPA. At MIT, he helped teach a variety of courses including one in Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making. . Since graduating, he’s helped found a school in Boston that has no courses, no subjects, no classes, and no grades. In other words, he’s in the process of redefining education as we know it. David is an intellectual powerhouse and also, a genuinely good guy. Reach out to David at www.nuvustudio.com Enjoy episode 7 of Hacker Practice with David Wang: [2.45] David explains how we have come out of “Artificial Intelligence Winter” and why AI is about to take off [5.10] AI ethics and morality and the end game [5.45] David discusses how codifying algorithms lead him to forging a career in AI [7.15] David discusses why following your hobby is a very important step in figuring out what you are on this planet to do: David enjoyed building computers from scratch Built a processor from logic gates in his spare time after studying [13.30] David describes what it’s like working on research projects with DARPA – Advanced research project agency of the defence department. ARPA is most famous for creating the internet. [14.45] Learning interesting topics – PHD automated planning and scheduling – AI subcategory [16.45] David describes AI planning and scheduling in detail! Ask how would we describe the world to a computer with true or false statements E.g. is the coffee cup on the table? True/false We then have a language which we can use to describe the world as is and how we want it to be (known in the AI world as “the goal”) Describe an action with a set of preconditioned statements that create a set of effects. Planning and scheduling involves sequencing these actions to get from your starting point to the goal. [21.10] David describes planning system projects he worked on at MIT involving decision making algorithms to block malicious hacking tactics. [23.20] David discusses the two types of hackers that are most dangerous [25.00] David describes his experiences of working on AI robotics projects for Boeing Why programming frameworks haven’t innovated until now [34.20] How video gaming was David’s gateway drug to programming. David also describes how we can take learnings from video game construction to the real world and contextual AI applications. [38.20] David discusses the concept, “you can do anything, but you can’t do everything” [40.40] David describes personal hacks he has for learning Start by asking why something is the way it is and understand the reasons behind something. Is there an intuition that is extractable that will allow you to remember why something is the way it is. [42.45] David talks about working on Augmented Reality applications in smart homes [44.30] Hacks to remember the names of people you meet [49.00] David gives an example of how AR in the smart home context, could be used to help a non-technical person, solve a technical problem, without the need for a technician [50.40] David gives his insights on Virtual Reality (VR) applications [54.00] Discussion on learning and facing adversity [56.40] David discusses his experiences working on the F-35 jet fighter David would essentially imagine all the different ways the plane could fail and reverse engineer solutions to prevent failure How David used the spiral development cycle to understand how the F-35 worked [1.04.00] Complexity comes not necessarily from the technology but from the number of moving parts David talks space exploration applications [1.08.10] How David deals with the isolation of being at the top of a field [1.10.20] Why it is so important to understand students underlying motivators to learn [1.13.20] Why it is important to decide if college is the right medium for students. College shouldn’t be used as the only time to decide what you want to do with your life. [1.16.45] David discusses why he started NuVu and shares his insights on teaching intuition By realising that the projects that really piqued his interest during studies were all based on extracurricular activities, David went out to challenge the existing education model. [1.20.30] What it’s like to run a school which has no classes, subjects or grades Students need to come up with an idea they are super passionate about. They are then taught how to turn it into a great idea. Students skills are then develop to turn this idea into a solution. The difference from formal learning here, is that they are invested in learning these skills because they are passionate, as opposed to being forced. Encourage students to understand the fundamental concepts of human centred design thinking when ideating and developing their solution [1.25.20] Justus gets David to deconstruct an idea using his teaching methodology. Spoiler: There is a lot of asking “why” Focus on solving a problem by stripping down an idea to its absolute rawest form. Minimum viable product (MVP) [1.31.30] How to not avoid losing sight of your original idea in the face of pivoting [1.34.00] What someone could expect as a new student at NuVu [1.37.10] How to start a school like NuVu on the cheap NuVu is a private educational business that is not accredited. How important is accreditation? In the case of NuVu, it isn’t. Ask, what does success look like for students leaving your school? NuVu wants to create the innovators of the future. There is a strong emphasis on soft skills. [1.43.30] The goal of working in a team is to create a giant brain [1.46.30] David discusses a seasonal effective disorder (SED) project some of his students are working on [1.48.20] What a parent who wants to send their child to NuVu need to know [1.49.30] How David plans on scaling by helping existing schools adopt the NuVu education model Use Maker Spaces more effectively [1.53.20], David asks us to think about what success means to you and is college critical on that path to success? You can find David at www.nuvustudio.com

Download the mp3 file. In this episode, we discuss the advantages that are available to small and medium size manufacturing companies because of their innate ability to make quick marketing decisions and relatively quick strategic or tactical changes. Adam is a practitioner who has proven this idea as a marketing manager working with and marketing to manufacturers. Guest: Adam Robinson, Marketing Manager at Cerasis Highlights: The reason that SMB manufacturers have an advantage is, simply, there is less bureaucracy and fewer people to approve content. You can also spread the word internally faster and easier. Take advantage of this difference. [6:00] LinkedIn Groups are a great place to share your message, knowledge or expertise with a target audience.  Choose a group and share knowledge. Ask a question and post answers. [11:00] Action Items - build a content plan to create content that your audience wants to consume; distribute content on a regular schedule; get the sales team and leadership involved with your content marketing strategy and execution. [14:30] Adam shares ideas how to get over the perception that marketing is a servant to sales. Show sales that marketing can be a powerful force to help sales achieve their goals. [20:00] Real life case study featuring Covington Aircraft and an image-oriented content marketing strategy. [22:00] The people in your target audience love experts. You can win in your market by becoming an expert in a subject that your audience cares about. [26:30] When you talk to manufacturing leadership about the role marketing can play in the business, talk about business fundamentals and answer their question "what's in it for me?" [29:15] Interview Questions: Question 1 –  First question, why is there an opportunity in this day and age for smaller manufacturers to compete and even overtake larger direct competitors? Question 2 –  Could you share a few specifics for our manufacturing marketing listeners out there. What are 3 to 5 action items they can take right away to begin taking advantage of the opportunity? Question 3 –  Could you share a real-life example where you were able to help a company achieve an advantage yourself by using this type of strategy and associated tactics? Question 4 – This all sounds great and I bet a lot of our listeners are really excited. But, the reality is, they can’t or won’t invest in marketing whether it’s new people or outsourcing. Usually, because the leadership won’t get on board.  What advice could you offer folks who find themselves in this situation? Challenge Question – Send in your own challenge question! This week our challenge question comes from a plastics manufacturer in Upstate New York. Here it is. “We’re a mid-size injection molding company and we’re having a tough time competing with the low-price production out of China. We keep getting underbid and I can’t reduce my prices any lower than the already are. I read your book (The New Way to Market for Manufacturing) and I’m interested in how I can grow by sharing expertise and not pitching our service. My concern is that it might take up to a year to start seeing results. Is that true? Is there a way to get faster results?” The fact is that it will take some time to establish yourself and your company as an expert. But, the sooner you get started, the sooner you will gain that expert position. Advertising and sponsoring content can help speed up the results. There are a couple of tactics where you can get faster results. Educational webinars are great for quick lead generation. eNewsletters are another tactic that can show relatively quick results. Takeaways: Be human. People want to deal with people. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Put it out there. hbspt.cta.load(2789653, '069e1b82-e384-4684-aff7-ab60a00695f0', {});   Transcript: Bruce McDuffee: Welcome to Manufacturing Marketing Matters, a podcast produced by the Manufacturing Marketing Institute, the center of excellence for manufacturing marketers. I'm Bruce McDuffee. Thank you for listening Hello, manufacturing marketers. Say, if you like the ideas and the strategy and the tactics we talk about here on the podcast, consider signing up for our free New Way to Market phone consultation with me. It's about 30 minutes long. We learn about each other and our businesses. I'll share a couple of fresh, innovative ideas specifically for your company. Just go to mmmatters.com/contact and fill out that form, and we'll set it up. Now, on to the show. Our guest expert today is Adam Robinson. Adam is the marketing manager at Cerasis. Welcome, Adam. Adam Robinson: Thank you for having me, Bruce. Pleasure to be here. Bruce McDuffee: Yeah. It's great to have you on the podcast today. I'm looking forward to our discussion. Folks, today, our topic, it's about the big opportunity for small and medium-sized manufacturers. What's that opportunity, you may be wondering. Well, the fact that smaller companies and medium companies can be more agile. This can be reflected immediately in their ability to leverage modern digital marketing strategy and tactics. There may be days where you're out there feeling like the big guys, just, they have all the money and all the power, and all the resources, and they just dominate that market place. That can be true to some extent, but today, small and medium guys have an advantage. A small company can reach the same customers, same prospects that the big guys can, not for a lot of money. Today, we're going to discuss the why and the how. Before we get into the interview, Adam, would you please introduce yourself to the audience with a little bit about your expertise and experience around the idea that agility can be a huge advantage for small and medium-sized businesses. Adam Robinson: Yeah. Sure. My name is Adam Robinson, like you said earlier. I work here at Cerasis, a third party logistics company as the director of marketing. I've worked in sales and marketing since I graduated from college in 2003, so for about 14 years. I've worked in digital marketing for about 10 years. If you've been in digital marketing for 10 years, that pretty much makes you an industry veteran because a lot of those practices have not been around. I mean, one of the first things that I did was work at a startup and instantly saw the value of digital practices by implementing an online form to take away the fax paper registration. It allowed us to decrease time for our customers to sign up, and we found that that was the biggest paying point. I really started to see how digital things, things that were less cost-intensive, less paper, if you will, improved process and helped you connect with your customers a lot quickly. Those fundamentals, back in 2004 when I did that with that company are no different than today. Just like you eluded to small companies can really take on the big guys because they have the ability to use something like digital marketing to reach them. Really found a passion for helping businesses in digital marketing, really got into social media in 2010, especially in LinkedIn. I think what I really was attracted to was goal-oriented marketing. When people told me, "Adam," when I first worked at a social media agency about eight years ago, "We want to achieve this. We could then develop strategies and use very inexpensive tools to go out and accomplish those goals." We do that today here at Cerasis. We use digital marketing to compete with the big guys. We are not the largest 3PL in the game, but I guarantee you, if you Google search anything around what we do in the way of logistics or transportation management, we're out there beating the big guys. We continue to get a lot of good leads, and we've been growing our business. It's a lot of fun to see results when you put it into play and it just keeps getting better and better. As you go after that, you have a lot more fun doing it.   Bruce McDuffee: Great. Thanks for that background. I pronounced the company name wrong? I said Cerasis, but it's Cerasis?   Adam Robinson: Yeah, that's interesting. It's a challenge. Phonetically, and about 100% of the time, people do say Cerasis because I think phonetically, that's exactly how you should say it. One of the biggest challenges we had was name recognition and people saying it correctly. I think we're always going to have that challenge, but more people know about our name more than ever. I'm happy that people are just saying it, no matter how they say it. Our sales people love now when they call up people are like, "I've heard of Cerasis." We quickly say, "Well, it's Cerasis." They're like, "I don't really care, because that means you've heard of us."   Bruce McDuffee: That's a great way to look at it. Adam, you have a lot of experience with digital marketing. I would say you're probably a pioneer. If you've been doing digital marketing for 10 years, you're a pioneer. Even more important, you're a practitioner.   Adam Robinson: Yeah, I do it every day.   Bruce McDuffee: Yeah, and that ... who's had success. Folks out there listening, Adam's not just set talking theory or ideas here, he's done it, he's proven it. This is going to be good content. First, let's get some context. Adam, a lot of our listeners are manufacturers and marketers working for manufacturers. A lot of them struggle to use modern marketing and digital marketing strategies, you know, things like SEO, even email marketing, paper-click, or content marketing. It's hard. It's hard to compete with the big guys when it comes to resources, people, and money. They don't have a lot of slack. They don't have time to step back and reassess and revamp their whole machine. Of course, they know about the tactics, they want to use them, and that's where we want to start.   The first question, why is there an opportunity in this day and age for smaller and medium-sized manufacturers to compete, and even overtake larger direct competitors? Why is that?   Adam Robinson: The easiest answer is you have less bureaucracy, and therefore you have less people to convince within your organization that digital marketing is valuable. Imagine if you were to go to a company and tried to execute new programs, or get content approved by a myriad of layers. In my years of doing this, I would say that the number one reason that marketers fail to get digital marketing off the ground is the inability to explain the value of digital marketing and blogs, and Tweeting, and sharing on Facebook to your bosses. Now, in a big company, imagine having to go to your boss, and his boss having to go to his boss, or his boss going to his boss to convince them to even get started.   Secondly, as you start to put content out into the wild, and people start to engage with it, and let's say someone disagrees with what you've written. Imagine the CEO sending you an email saying, "What is this all about?" Then, 18 other bosses piling on top of you? It's called "Paralysis by analysis." I think we're all familiar with that. That happens a lot.   I say, but the next big advantage, however, in a small organization, or small company, is that you have the ability to touch every single department a lot more quickly than a huge organization. At the heart of good content marketing is simply telling the story of your company, telling your potential customers, and your readers what makes you different, informing them and educating them on the things that your company is already an expert on. I guarantee you that at a small or mid-sized manufacturer, you know the exact person who's machining your product. You know the subject matter experts by name. You may have known them for years. As simple as this is, you just have to sit in front of them and ask them, "What do you hear out there in the marketplace? What are your challenges? What do you think our customers would like to be educated about that is also a value proposition for our company?"   For example, when I first came to Cerasis, the first thing I did, and I recommend any marketer do this, is I sat down with the leadership, and every department head, and then every single employee afterwards. I gave them all the exact same five to 10 questions. I said, "What do you think the goals of the company are? Who do you think our target audience is? What do you think they're going to care about? What's your value to this company, or to a customer, when they become a customer?"   If you sit down ... say you have 30 to 50 people in your organization, and you ask those same 30 to 50 people those questions, and you write them down or record them ... You can go back and review those notes, but just even psychologically, when you're done with that process, in your brain, you have already heard 50 versions of what the company needs to market. You get a very big picture of that. Then you go, "All right. I've already got a million ideas for content that I can start putting together, because I know all these subject matter experts' thoughts, needs, and desires, and what they think the customer wants to hear."   You can then put all that together and start creating content. Guess what you've already done, you've already gotten buy-in from every single one of those people, because you're telling their story. You're not telling your story, or what you think as a marketer. If you get siloed in what you think about, and you start applying all of these digital marketing ... "I need to do these tactical things because I'll write an SEO article. I need to construct it this way." Well then you're not really doing what people want to read. Human beings need to be brought to the forefront of content marketing. If you're creating content that your subject matter experts inside have said that they might read, well I guarantee you, the target audience is going to want to read that. Guess what, Google's not going to think you're trying to game their system and their algorithm. They're going to go, "They're creating good content for human beings," and they're going to favor you in the long-run.   Bruce McDuffee: I think what you're saying here, as far as reason it's easier for small and medium companies, there's a couple of reasons. One is you don't have to deal with bureaucracy, and you probably have access to the leadership, so you can talk to them about it, get their buy-in. One of the things, though, Adam, is do you think there's a big reason because of the modern way we get information? Mean, 20, 30 years ago, you had to have a lot of money to get your message out, because it was TV, radio, print. Now, a small guy can get out a better message than a big guy because of the internet and social media. Yeah, sometimes you'll still have to pay, but it's more of a level playing field. How does that play into the advantage?   Adam Robinson: Yeah, that's right. I mean, you can go in and you can install WordPress on to your website. A WordPress is just a simple content management system. There's a number of content management systems out there. You start publishing your content. You can establish your own social media platforms. For example, in a manufacturing community. I know it because I live and breathe it, been doing it for five straight years, but there are hundreds of LinkedIn groups. Unlike places like Facebook, or Twitter ... not that those don't have value. I'll talk a little bit about those two platforms specifically. A place like LinkedIn, you don't have to build followers for people to start seeing your content when you join LinkedIn groups. You're already joining a built in community where as soon as you post a discussion, you're reaching potentially tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of professionals around a single relevant idea.   If you're a manufacturer who's manufacturing oil and gas products, there's an oil and gas group of 200,000 people. If you build content that educates and informs those people, where they actually want to read it, and you've powered it through interviews from subject matter experts within your organization, you're going to start seeing in your own analytics and your own traffic people from the oil and gas industry come to your website. If you construct those with good calls-to-action, and it's easy for people to get in touch with you, then an interesting thing starts to happen, they start getting in touch with you, you start to generate that magic currency that your boss wants to see, and that's a lead, right? A qualified lead.   I think that's why it's such a level playing field. Anybody can do that. It requires zero money to have a LinkedIn account, zero money to join a group, except for your time and a little bit of research using a search function.   Bruce McDuffee: You've had good success with LinkedIn groups then, growing your business through that type of sharing?   Adam Robinson: Yeah, absolutely. It does take a little bit of your time. For example two and a half years ago, there was a LinkedIn group API. There were a number of social media management tools that allowed you to more easily distribute your content into specific groups. Now, they've taken away that API because of spam abuse. There are a few people out there who make it worse for us good guys, who are really trying to create content that engages and informs. LinkedIn took away that API. That's fine. I'm okay with that, because I'm disciplined to record all the names of my groups, to put them into categories in a spreadsheet. If I create a piece of content that talks about the application of the internet of things as it applies to the manufacturing community, I'm only going to put that group discussion into those groups where that might be relevant. Oh yeah, I'm also not just going post a link, I'm going to ask a question around that idea to try and engage the audience. I'm also not just going to post my content, I'm going to be an active member of that community.   When you ask your own questions that don't include a link to your content, or you engage and provide thoughtful insight to someone else's discussion, and you do that with discipline over time, you better believe that when you post content and links to your blog or to your website, it'll be not seen as spam, or not adding value to the community, it will be seen as, "Hey, that's old Bob. He always likes to start discussions, and he's an active poster, but he also likes to give me thoughts on my stuff." The managers, the other members, they really value that community-driven aspect. By joining LinkedIn groups, you're already tapping into existing communities without you having to build them yourself, unlike Facebook and Twitter.   Bruce McDuffee: That's a great tip. Let's dig into it a little more, some specifics, Adam. For our manufacturing marketing listeners out there, maybe you could say three to five action items they could take right away to start getting advantage about this opportunity we're talking about.   Adam Robinson: Sure. I think a big tactic that I would apply is to, especially when you're creating content, is to build yourself a content plan that is backed by categories. Those categories should be driven primarily by what your target audience might want to read. If we go back to the oil and gas industry, and we think about all the decision makers in the oil and gas industry of your specific product, and you're going to know that best, and I recommend you determine that beforehand, but I'm sure you know that already. You might say that they're interested in X, Y and Z, and so you want to record those categories beforehand, and you want to make sure that you write a good amount of those different types of categories.   If I take it back to Cerasis, for example, our target audience are North American industrial manufacturers and distributors, primarily in the automotive aftermarket industry. Now, in the manufacturing side of things, there are a number of things that manufacturers care about. For example, technology in manufacturing, or the internet of things, or reshoring, because we serve the United States market, and reshoring or taking warehouses from abroad, bringing them back to the USA, is a big idea.   Now, we've gotten flack from some people who just don't get it, and they go, "Why are you writing about reshoring when you're a transportation, management, and logistics company?" I say, "Well, I'm writing about that because I may not care about that for my business, but I guarantee you, the manufacturing executive, who will ultimately make the decision on our product, does care about that. For him or her to become aware of us, I need to reach them with that content, so wherever, it be a LinkedIn group, a LinkedIn profile post, a LinkedIn company page post, a Tweet, a search engine result on a search engine page, I need them to go, "That's interesting to me."   We become a hub of information for those people, but I can't write about those things unless I do my work of recording the categories of the things that my target audience might care about. That requires a little bit of research to put those categories down.   Another tactic that I would give somebody, especially when it applies to content marketing distribution, is that you have to distribute your content. One of the things that I always say is ... I kind of ... a little twist on content is king, right? Content is king. You have to have the currency by which to entice your target audience to come back and speak to you, the goods, the where's. That's the content. If you're not distributing that ... and this is where I say content is king, and distribution rules the land. If you're not distributing that content regularly in Twitter, or in these LinkedIn groups that are relevant, then no one's going to see it. Before you have the big payoff, which we'll talk about in a little bit, search engine optimization, as you're creating this content, you have to start getting people to engage with your content, to come back and leave comments. Don't forget about social media distribution.   The third tactic I would employ is, there's a sales element to any marketer, right? There's always going to be a sales executive in this. You have to get them involved in your vision and mission for your marketing. You cannot operate in a silo. There can be no walls between you and your sales manager, as a marketer, because that content that you're creating is chuck full of juicy nuggets that are great things to send to a prospect. That's how you sell today. I guarantee you that in the sales process, there will be a problem as you're talking to your target audience, that if you've done your categories right, and you've listened to what your target audience wants from your internal interviews with your subject matter experts, there's going to be something that you've written that can be put in the sales person's email, or in the sales person's conversation that will empower them to create a more relevant conversation with that sales prospect. If your marketing strategy, and the consultative, informed, educated approach that you have in that content marketing strategy doesn't align in that sales process, it's going to be broken.   Don't just look at it as just generating leads, look at it as truly empowering your sales staff with really good content and information that will help them continue to peel back the layers it takes to close a deal.   Bruce McDuffee: This is challenging, because you know as well as I do, Adam, a lot of manufacturing companies have a long history, maybe 50, 80 years where sales rules. There's also, on top of that, many times with manufacturers, there's an internal cultural perception that marketing is setting up trade shows and placing adds, and maybe editing the webpages. To marketers I talk to, and manufacturing, they know, they get it, everything we've been saying, but to get over that hurdle is so important. I want to emphasize to that audience, you've got to get that alignment, like Adam was saying. You've got to show them how powerful marketing can be. Any tips on how they could do that, Adam? I mean, how does a marketer get over that hurdle?   Adam Robinson: Be explicit in your intentions, and clearly state that I am here as a marketer, to support your mission of being successful. I am completely bought in to your sales approach. Any good sales manager today, I think, would say, "Hey, my goal is to further the sales process, and I need collateral sometimes to do that," or "I need something that I can share to them that will make them think," or "Gosh, I have not been able to reengage this prospect. They're just not returning my calls. They're not returning my emails." I go, "Hey, have you tried sending them this blog post instead of, "I haven't heard from you lately," or leaving the 14th voicemail.   Sales is going from a tactical approach, just like marketing was for a while, to a very strategic, nuanced approach that requires a lot of context. When you create content, and you can point to thought leadership pieces, or that somebody picked up your publication, then that empowers sales to be more successful. My sales manager always calls me Oz, right? Like the Wizard of Oz. I'm the man behind the curtain for him, because I don't want to be the superstar. I think marketers, for a really long time, have tried to be the superstar, but we aren't. I think we're the fuel that powers the engine of sales. The more aligned you are to be explicit with your vision and your mission, that it's just ... We're just a part of their successful, then I think you get that buy-in.   Bruce McDuffee: Good. I think that's great advice. Let's talk about a real life example, Adam. Can you share with our audience a real life example where you were able to get a company into a position to take advantage of ... with their agility, to take advantage of this type of strategy and these types of tactics?   Adam Robinson: Yeah. I've helped a lot of companies breakthrough where ... I think when I do help companies, they never want to stop, because they may have had hesitations at first of putting themselves out there. For example, I had this client back in the day that I still keep in touch with called, ["Cubbington 00:22:03] Aircraft." They sold turbine aircraft engines, and maintained turbine aircraft engines a specific engine made by Pratt & Whitney called, "The PT6A." It powers a lot of turboprop engines. They also serviced the agriculture aviation market, and they did the old [Warbird 00:22:21] Radial engines, as well, the R-985, and the R-1340. They were looking to reach pilots who piloted those aircrafts and needed that engine maintained, of if they wanted to buy a new engine, they could sell that, and they needed to reach fleet managers.   There are a number of competitors in this space, but I think a lot of those engine guys, they're kind of like ... Think of a car shop. Imagine a car shop sitting there going, "All right, guys. We know this social media and this content is pretty important for us to do, but we have no idea how to do it." With them, we knew that they wanted to reach these pilots, and what we've found in our research is that these pilots have been asking people around the company ... They're very social in nature by what they do. Pilots love talking shot to each other about airplanes. They love showing pictures of each other, and so we've developed a strategy. It was very image-oriented, and we got them on Instagram ... There are 139 aircraft that had these engines that they support. Therefore, we said, "Okay, if the pilots care about the aircraft, but they are powered by these engines, if they're pilots of these aircraft, then they're going to need somebody to help them with the engines in order to keep it flying."   We said, "All right. We could sit here and talk about how to fix an engine, the ins and outs of the details of the engine, but at the end of the day, pilots might know about that. When you take your car in to get fixed, do you want to sit there and have your mechanic talk about how he fixed the engine, or do you want him to talk about maybe what you care about, and that he got the engine fixed?" All you care about is getting the engine fixed. You don't really care about the ins and outs of how it happened.   A lot of companies, they want to talk about how you do things. There's some aspect to that, but if that's all you're talking about, your audience is going to tune out. We started talking about the aircraft. We shared images of the aircraft. We talked about the history of those aircraft, but we always mentioned, "Oh yeah, they're powered by these engines. Oh yeah ..." at the end, with a call-to-action of any piece of content. "Book an appointment, so we can take care of that engine for you." We made it about the pilot community around those 139 aircraft. If you go on Instagram and you look up Cubbington Aircraft, they're at almost 20,000 Instagram followers, they have people liking their post. When you Google search the history of any of those aircraft, guess who's number one on Google?   It's less about the company, and more about the target audience. We just did that by following the process of interview the subject matter of expertise, people inside. Keep the target audience in mind, and create content that mirrors their real life behavior. Then, don't forget to ask for the business with a call-to-action.   Bruce McDuffee: Really, it comes down to what [inaudible 00:25:04] to mind, my mind is it comes down to knowing your audience, knowing their pain or ... Like the description you just gave, knowing their passion. When you know that, you share a content, relevant content, it's going to work, it's going to engage. It's really important. I mean, how many manufacturers out there are sharing content about features of their product and their boring stuff like accuracy, or speed? Audience doesn't care, right?   Adam Robinson: No, they don't. If you become a thought leader, right? Let's go back to the car mechanic as an example. If a car mechanic takes care of my problem that I came in for, but then at the end of the day, he also said, "Hey, Adam, I fixed your broken carburetor, but there's a line from the carburetor to this part ..." Forgive me, I don't know car engines too well, that's why I hire people. If he tells me, "Hey, the carburetor is all fixed, but I just wanted to inform you that if you continue to drive 97 miles an hour, it's going to put pressure on your transmission because this carburetor still needs to be broken in, and that could happen."   Every time I go to this mechanic, or every time he sends me an email reminder, he's given me information about my car and how I can do things to make it run better, and how if it gets worse, I need to make sure I call him. Well, first of all, he's staying top of mind with me. Second of all, he's building trust with education. People love experts. They love experts. They want to hear what makes you good, what makes you so smart, and you're talking about things that are relative to me and that I care about. When I have a problem, or I need something, or I'm looking to finally hire, I'm going to go to that company.   That's kind of the vision that we have a Cerasis. We think of ourselves in the marketing side of things, at least, and the sales process, much more as a publication than a company blog. We look at ourselves much more as a community, the manufacturing and distribution community at large, than we do as just trying to market to people. You have to really believe your own vision of that. You can't just be doing it because, "I'm in marketing. I'm tasked with this. My goal is to drive awareness. My goal is to drive leads." I'm not saying that's not what you're trying to do. Of course, that's your goal. You're driven by a vision of truly caring about creating a community, built and underlined by passion of your target audience.   Bruce McDuffee: Good. Makes sense. I imagine at this point in the podcast, there's probably some folks out there saying to themselves, "Well, this all sounds great." They're probably a little excited about it, and they want to do some of these things we're talking about to get the awareness, and the credibility, and the positioning as an expert, but the reality is they can't, or don't want to invest in marketing as a function, and with whether it's people or budget. Usually, it goes back to what we talked about earlier, that the leadership won't get on board. If a guy out there or a girl out there listening today, has a boss or a VP sales, whoever it is, that just doesn't understand it, what can they do today to start the conversation rolling?   Adam Robinson: You know, that's a really good question. I don't think you're going to be well served saying, "We really got to be Tweeting. We really got to be doing these tactical things." For example, my bosses, when they hired me, they hired a bunch ... The company never marketed before. They interviewed a whole bunch of people who were probably looking at doing more traditional things like newspaper ads, and magazine ads, and a bunch of trade shows, and those kinds of things. I came in, and I think I got the job because I didn't focus on necessarily, "We're going to be Tweeting or distributing in LinkedIn groups." I focused on the value and the outcome of what this could do, or what the purpose of it is." I became more strategic.   Just because we're using new tools for marketing, content marketing, social media, digital marketing, retargeting and advertising through digital means or email marketing, doesn't mean that a business owner who is an entrepreneur at heart, can't understand marketing and business fundamentals. You have to keep it fundamental. You have to tell them the purpose of why we're engaging in digital marketing. It's as simple as this, "Hey, boss, you told me your goal for the company was to grow by twenty million. Okay, great. You told me your marketing goals was to increase our brand awareness, and we hope that you can generate more inbound leads and more people coming to us instead of our sales reps having to cold call. Well, that's fantastic. I've developed a plan that is both going to benefit us in the short-term and the long-term. In the short-term, we're going to make sure we continue to reach this target audience."   You have to speak in those fundamental languages, and those fundamental words that people can understand. When you start coming out there with industry jargon, maybe they understand it, but what it the value of search engine optimization, right? What is the value of that long-term payoff? What is the value of going into these LinkedIn groups? If your boss asked those questions, you have to be willing to answer those fundamental questions.   "Well, I'm going to go into LinkedIn groups because this oil and gas group has 200,000 people, and I'm going to be able to reach a potential of 200,000 decision makers with our content that educates them. Boss, you and I both know that people love experts, and they want to be educated. I want to make us look like the authority, so that when they think of somebody to help them out with oil and gas manufacturing product, they're going to think of us. Oh yeah, while we're putting out this content that they're going to trust and engage with in the short term as we distribute that to get their eyeballs on it, I'm going to be doing search engine optimization tactics." The boss goes, "What the heck did you just say to me?"   I say, "Okay, boss, all that really means is, when's the last time you went to Google.com to search for a product or service. I guarantee you he goes, "This morning." I'm like, "Exactly, because you're searching for an answer. We're going to create content that answers our target audience's questions, whether it's about X, Y, or Z they care about, or even the things that we specifically do. Well, boss, it's going to take a long time. Search engine take a while for you to build up authority, and we just don't have it yet. In the short term, we're going to be doing these tactical things to bring eyeballs and awareness to us of our target audience." Speak in their language. Don't go too jargony with it, and focus on value.   Bruce McDuffee: Exactly. The boss is asking himself, "What's in it for me" when he's interviewing you or asking you these questions. Tell him what's in it for him, just like Adam just explained. Good. That brings us to the next part of the show, Adam, which is the challenge question. Folks out there listening, send in your question, keep them coming, email them to me bruce@mmmatters.com, or go to the website, and just find the menu for podcast challenge, fill out the form, send them in. I'll pose the question to one of our guest experts.   Today, our question comes from a plastics manufacturers in upstate New York. By the way, they're usually anonymous, or white-labeled like this. Here's the question, Adam, "We're a mid-sized injection molding company. We're having a tough time competing with the low price production out of China. We keep getting underbid, and I can't reduce my prices any lower than they already are. I read your book, the New Way to Market for Manufacturing, and I'm interested in how I can grow by sharing my expertise, and not pitching our service. My concern is that it might take up to a year to start seeing results. Is that true? Is there a way to get fast results? What do you think, Adam? What would you advise?   Adam Robinson: Sure. I think there's a couple of key parts to that question, three parts that I'm going to specifically address. You talk about low price, and the worry of China displacing you, because everybody's so cost-centric. That's true. That's reality. That happens. I think I would tell that person, "I bet you tell your sales people to focus on value." You said it yourself, expertise, you want to show them your expertise. If you've heard everything that we said today in this podcast, you know one thing that I think is important, that people still want to do business with people, and that you have to show your expertise. You have the expertise and the value, so create that content plan and start creating content with that.   Now, I'm not here to promise that the moment you start creating that content, that you're going to start getting leads and new customers, because that's not reality, and you have to set that expectation with yourself, because if you master some of these things and you start creating content and distributing in these things like LinkedIn groups, or you start building up your Twitter followers, it's going to take a while before people start building trust in your expertise. You don't just come out of the womb as an expert, you build that trust with whatever community you are, but every single day you don't do that, is a day wasted to start building it, so I would say don't be hesitant to start.   Now, after a while, if you continue to create content that human beings and your target audience actually care about, and you make sure that you're doing some really good on-page search engine optimization practices, and frankly that's just making sure that every piece of content you write is centered around a pretty centralized idea, Google will start [inaudible 00:34:34] your content, and start putting you in search engines. That might take a year to pay off, it depends on your market and your niche, and how well people are receiving your content, or sharing it or picking it up on other sites, those always super charge your search engine results.   What can you do in the short-term? Well, you can always advertise in social media and sponsor your content. You can always start distributing it into those groups, and that will help, but it's amazing that what Facebook ads and LinkedIn sponsored updates can do for you. It's also amazing that you can take possibly an email prospect list, or maybe you went to a trade show and you gathered email marketing, or emails from people that you talk to. You can give it for like constant contact that is as cheap as, I think, $79 a month. As you grow your list, that price increases, but you can email people any new content that you put out there. That's a good way to get people back to your website. I would say, you have to make sure that when you're targeting with these ads, or email marketing, that you want to make sure that it's relevant. When you're gathering email addresses, or anything like that, you want to make sure that you categorize them properly.   If you're talking like for example at Cerasis, I probably wouldn't email something regarding to how the internet of things affects manufacturing companies to my distribution lists, my distribution companies list, people who are distributors. You want to make sure that matches up. Do your due diligence whenever you're advertising to set your targeting to the appropriate people. Those are some short-term things that you can do, advertise, social media distribution, and email marketing to power that content that you're creating.   I think a lot of people often waste the effort that they put into one blog by publishing it and moving in. They forget to distribute it more than once. They forget to advertise it. They forget to use it in the sales process. They forget to blast it out through email marketing. Work that content until the search engine results start coming in. That is going to take anywhere from 90 to more days before you start seeing that traffic.   Bruce McDuffee: Okay. Good answer. Thanks, Adam. My two cents would be yes, it does take time to position your brand or your company as a go-to expert, as it takes time to get that top of mind awareness and that credibility in the market place, and you do that just like you're starting out asking the question about sharing expertise. Find that paying point that's common among your target audience, create content that addresses the paying point. That gets you to that position. Yes, that can take six months to a year.   However, there are a couple of tactics, just like Adam mentioned, a couple of tactics where you can get pretty fast results. One of them is, I've found is very effective for getting your qualified lead list, is an educational webinar. Create a webinar that shares expertise about that paying point, because people have to register for a webinar, they give you their information. If you have a pretty good sized internal data base, you could probably get a few hundred people right off just from that database, people who have forgotten about you, perhaps.   The second way to get quick results is set up an E-newsletter that also shares content. For the questioner, note that I didn't say anything about pitching that product, because that's not going to work, right, Adam?   Adam Robinson: Bruce, you probably get Cerasis' newsletter every day when we put out a piece of new content.   Bruce McDuffee: Yeah. It's good stuff. Absolutely. It's like we've been saying all day, if you put out relevant, helpful, useful information, your audience is going to like it, and they're going to start associating that with you and your brand. Then, when the day comes around and they're ready to buy, you're going to get the call.   Adam Robinson: You know what, when we go to conferences with UPS, FedEx, right, these are name-brand companies, multi-billion dollar companies, I can't tell you .... The greatest feeling in the world is when their VP's come up to you and go, "How many people do you have working in your marketing department, because every time we Google anything in this industry, Cerasis is beating us. Why are you beating us? You guys must have just a whole bunch of marketing budget and a whole bunch of people." I said, "Now, up until last April, it was just me." This is possible with one person. The reality is that you just have to put everything you can into it and hustle it, and you can compete with the big guys. There's no greater feeling than to look at a guy from a company who's worth a billion more dollars than your company, and you eat them for lunch when it comes to search engine optimization.   Bruce McDuffee: There you go. It's doable, folks. It is doable.   Adam Robinson: Absolutely. Just Google freight class, and see who shows up when it comes to freight class. That's all I'm saying.   Bruce McDuffee: Well, Adam, to close out, do you have ... I always ask our guest experts to share one or two actionable takeaways. Is there one or two takeaways you'd like to leave with our audience? It could be a summary of something we've talked about, or a couple of nuggets they can do right away. What do you have for us?   Adam Robinson: When it comes to starting or venturing content and social media marketing, or trying to improve a program that you've already launched, I would say just don't stress yourself out too much. What I mean by that is just be human. Think of yourself in human terms. Remind yourself that although this is the internet, that more than ever, people want to connect with other people, that people want to read information that brings them value, so give that to them, and don't be afraid to give that to them. Don't be afraid to make mistakes either. That's what's great about all of this, is that you have analytics at the back end of all of this stuff. When I did this type of content, how many people responded in social media? Did this drive enough lead? Let the data be your guide, and don't be afraid to put it out there.   I've got to tell you, we write a blog post every day. We have a lot of planning in that content plan to achieve that. A lot of people go, "Well, how do you do that?" I go, "Because sometimes, I don't have a blog post for that day," but sometimes when I just kind of write out a post and put it out there in the world, I could tell you five times out of ten, those posts that I didn't plan, that I just wrote passionately, thinking about my target audience to give them what they wanted, those are the best performing posts that I always have, because it's devoid of paralysis by analysis, and it's full of passion. Just don't be afraid to put yourself out there, and meet your expectations, or don't meet them, but use the data to continue to improve.   Bruce McDuffee: Great takeaway. Thanks. Finally, Adam, anything you'd like to share with our audience about yourself or your company?   Adam Robinson: Well, myself, I absolutely love this stuff. I think you will too if you just put the passion behind it, you'll never work a day in your life. I never feel like I'm working, so I have the best job at my company. Speaking of my company, I'm really honored to be able to tell their story. I'm very lucky to have not to have convinced my bosses that this is important, they gave me that full autonomy. I know not everybody has that, but if you just simply are on the same page with your leadership, and you can get them to realize that there is value to this, and then you start to do it, and you prove it with your results, then it's going to be a fun experience.   Cerasis is such a great company to think that way. They built one of the first web-based transportation management systems before Google was even a company, back in 1997. They've not been afraid to innovate and put themselves out there. It's an extension to me. I feel a duty to my owners to tell their story. There's nothing more fun in the world. I'm completely blessed to be doing it as a job.   Bruce McDuffee: Adam, thank you so much for being a guest today on Manufacturing Marketing Matters.   Adam Robinson: Thanks for having me, Bruce. I enjoyed it.   Bruce McDuffee: That was Adam Robinson, marketing manager at Cerasis. For more information about Adam and Cerasis, visit the Guest Bio page, and see the show notes at mmmatters.com. If you like what we're talking about and other things we share in the podcast, and you want to take advantage of this type of opportunity in your market, at MMI, here we can help you. Take that first step. Go to the Contact page and we'll set up a free 30-minute consultation.   Thanks for listening to Manufacturing Marketing Matters. If you find this podcast helpful and useful, please subscribe at iTunes or Stitcher.com. You can download this episode on mmmatters, and get the show notes, and learn more about the podcast at mmmatters.com. I'm Bruce McDuffee, now let's go out and advance the practice of market and manufacturing today.  

In our January 2017 podcast, Tim Higgins, President of the In2:InThinking Network, www.in2in.org, and Quality Engineer for NASA, based in Los Angeles, California, shares insights from his 30+ years of studying, applying, and illuminating The Deming System of Profound Knowledge®. Following a brief career as an educator in a public school system, Tim shifted careers and joined the rocket engine industry, employed by “Rocketdyne” (a division of Rockwell, then Boeing, followed by Pratt & Whitney, and now integrated with Aerojet). Along the way, Tim was introduced to Dr. Deming's theory of management and, upon reflection, realized his inclinations against grades in school, while serving as a teacher, could be explained through his appreciation of Profound Knowledge.   For a short time, Tim was a member of Rocketdyne's TQM Office, where he was introduced to the thinking of Genichi Taguchi and partnered with peers to create Rocketdyne's pioneering “InThinking Roadmap” curriculum.   The subsequent focus on thinking modes led to his contributions as a co-founder of the In2:InThinking Network, a non-profit for which he now serves as president.   In 2009, Tim crossed the employment bridge from the contractor side (“Rocketdyne”) to the customer side (NASA), inspired the proposition of assuming a role that would help Rocketdyne become a better contractor. Guided by his extraordinary experiences as a quality advisor, Tim has led study sessions for Dr. Deming's The New Economics for the past 12+ years, under the sponsorship of “Rocketdyne”.    Beginning in 2017, these sessions, comprised of six 90-minute conference calls, are being sponsored by The Deming Institute.   Led by Tim, participants share their interpretations and questions of The New Economics, chapter-by-chapter, covering 2 chapters in each 2-hour session.    A few highlights from Tim's musings with Tripp on the study sessions follow below: Why he believes Deming (management) is about learning The popularity of the question "Why doesn't everyone get “Deming management”?" Why being conscious of context is essential Why, when dealing with a difficulty in perception, using logic is no help is helping others see things differently Issues associated with extrinsic motivation – punishment and rewards Some challenges of letting go of “patting others” on the head The widespread similarity of organizations What would happen if “rating and ranking” systems were used at home? Lessons from transforming his manager Feedback from his VP's administrative assistant on rewards systems His realization that the system we have is perfectly designed to obtain the results we're getting Why asking for different results requires a different system Some implications of empowerment

What does it take to be considered innovative? What is Connecticut's history of innovation? Find out with this interview with Connecticut Historical Society curator Ilene Frank and exhibit designer Jordan Klein about their new exhibition Connecticut Innovates! on view November 11, 2016 to March 25, 2017.    Visit ctexplored.org/listen for links to stories about Connecticut’s innovators: Sikorsky, Ensign-Bickford, Pepperidge Farm, Peter Paul, Bigelow Tea, Pratt & Whitney, Kaman, and more!  

Brian Mack initially had aspirations of becoming an astronaut and got his Aerospace Engineering degree in college. After college, he took a job at Pratt & Whitney where he got to work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. He went on to work for a company designing replacement parts for gas turbine engines for power plants. But, within a year, the company was sued by GE for patent infringement. This was Brian’s first experience with patent law and got to see the mix of engineering, science, and law together. From this, he decided to move and pursue his law degree. He has worked with software companies, energy companies, engineering firms, and one of the Big Three auto manufactures on patent work. Lathrop & Gage has a long history of providing counsel for all sorts of legal matters. This podcast covers the specifics of patent law and we will be featuring more podcasts that cover other areas pertaining to the aftermarket automotive industry.

The aerospace giant Pratt and Whitney plans to double production of a new and innovative jet engine by 2020. Proper supply-chain management will play a huge role in the success of the venture. Pratt and Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has orders for more than 7,000 of the new engines, which are more powerful, more fuel-efficient, quieter and result in fewer emissions. The model is the centerpiece of the company's bid to increase its presence in commercial aviation. But success hinges on tight coordination with an army of suppliers upstream, and aircraft manufacturers downstream. On this episode, we're joined by Sam Abdelmalek, vice president of global supply chain, who outlines the company's journey in developing the new engine. It's the product of a decade-long effort, costing billions of dollars. Abdelmalek talks about the challenges that Pratt Whitney has already encountered in building the ''game-changing'' engine, as well as its bid to take a more proactive and preventive approach to dealing with suppliers. ''Supply chain is now a critical part of our success,'' he says.

This Episode is brought to you by In this Episode of the Hangar Deck Podcast, the team interviews Veteran, Author and Professional photographer Mr. Del Laughery.  Del is the Author of the book The Boneyard Almanac.  Del is a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Submarine Service. During his Navy days, Del served aboard USS Jacksonville, SSN-699, USS George Washington Carver, SSBN-656 (Gold), USS Pasadena, SSN-752, and USS Norfolk, SSN-714. He was aboard the USS Jacksonville during her collision with a Turkish freighter in 1982, and in a cruel twist of fate was assigned to her again as his final boat - following the Norfolk - and was aboard for another collision in 1996. In addition, to his submarine background Del is a private pilot, aviation photographer, and works in the aviation industry at Pratt & Whitney.   If you know aviation, you know that company.  His is the lead for the military jet engine training program. Del says, “Writing these books came as something of an accident.  I didn't "get the bug" to write, instead, I just started writing down thoughts about my submarine career, which eventually became the backbone for .  The came into being as a byproduct of my aviation photography. After numerous visits to Davis-Monthan AFB, I suddenly had a few thousand photos along with a desire to share them.” He continues to say, “The Boneyard is a patch of Arizona desert full of stored and derelict aircraft from the past and present.  To walk among the war-weary aircraft parked here is to take a literal trip into the past.  Fighters sit among cargo aircraft, while bombers are surrounded by trainers.  Regardless of what specific plane is in your view, there's a story around how it got there and the men and women who flew it.  One of service. One of sacrifice.  Of times both better and worse for the airmen and the world.” Photographer Del Laughery received unprecedented access over the last ten years to the collection itself as well as never-before-seen archival photographs.  He also includes the boneyard's connections with the USAF Museum and the Pima Air and Space Museum as part of the greater story of what happens to old, unwanted warplanes. If you're an aviation fan, an ex-military pilot, or in love with history, The Boneyard Almanac will provide a highly pictorial perspective that few ever get to experience firsthand.  Del's photographs are extraordinary, placing you right next to these aircraft, so close, in fact, you can almost reach out and touch them. The Hangar Deck Podcast would like to thank our audience for the continued support on our venture. We reached a milestone of over 6,000 downloads and continue to grow our audience.  If you would like to be a guest on The Hangar Deck Podcast contact us at .  The Hangar Deck Podcast Team continues to strive and bring great interviews for the aviation enthusiast.    

3/31/15 - Special Guests - Al Samuel, Exec. Director of Aerospace Component Manufacturers “The World’s Aerospace Alley” ACM: World Leaders in Aerospace Since Flight Began ACM comprises one of the largest, most experienced concentrations of world-class aerospace companies, the world's AEROSPACE ALLEY! Our firms grew up where aerospace was born. Thier precision components take to the skies every day, in every corner of the globe, as they have since the inception of powered flight.ACM member companies are united by a single goal; be the world leader in providing customers with aerospace components of unsurpassed quality, at competitive prices and always, on-time delivery.ACM Informational VideoACM March 2015 Newsletter Update Max McIntyre, Vice President of Turbine Technologies in Farmington, CTTTi provides CNC Sinker Electric Discharge Machining (EDM), Wire Electric Discharge Machining (WEDM), High Speed Hole (HSH) and 5 Axis Milling services for the aerospace and IGT engine markets. The company has earned wide recognition for high quality, responsiveness, and lean enterprise that adds value and delights customers.  Paul Rocheleau, CFO of HABCO in Glastonbury, CTn 1970 HABCO Industries was founded by Henry A. Backmann, a former Pratt & Whitney aircraft engineer with a focus on custom test solutions.  Henry went on to develop the first GSE with PWA for JT9D Fuel Nozzles.  In 2000 Henry sold HABCO to Kristin Muschett, who introduced ground support equipment for rotary winged aircraft to the company profile.  After Kristin took over, HABCO went on to win an array of awards.  In 2004 HABCO won the “Fast Fifty Award”, in 2007 they won the United Space Alliance SFA Supplier Award, and shortly after they also won the “Excellence in Manufacturing Award” from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.  A few years later, in 2010, the decision was made to move HABCO to a larger, more modern facility to allow for future growth.  Two years later, HABCO achieved Supplier Gold Status with UTC for perfect delivery and quality to all UTC divisions as well as exceptionally high scores on the Lean Assessment and Market Feedback Assessment.  In 2012, Kristin sold the business to HABCO Industries. Commissioner Catherine Smith - Connecticut Department of Economic and Community DevelopmentThe Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is in the business of growing your business.DECD is the state's lead agency for the development and implementation of policies, strategies and programs that support business growth and innovation. The department offers a wide range of programs and services to help companies prosper in Connecticut

You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't love what you do, give back to your community and enjoy Mother Nature then what's the point? According to Shayne Newman, founder of YardApes, if you're passionate about what you do, you'll be successful, have fun, and never work a day in your life. So many times we get caught up in the day to day stress of being business owners that we forget to think about why we started in this industry. Many landscapers grew up with an inherent love of nature. Shayne says the only thing more rewarding than this is getting involved in community service projects. Experienced in the trade since 1987, Newman founded YardApes, Inc. in 1990 and holds the title of president. He hails from Telluride, Colorado, but has lived in New Milford for the past 27 years. Shayne received a B.S. in Finance from UCONN, is a Landscape Industry Certified Technician, Landscape Industry Certified Manager, holds a Connecticut Supervisory Pesticide License and is a Certified Landscape Designer. He is also the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) PR committee chair, a CNLA committee member, founding member of the Connecticut LICT committee on training & testing, Community Culinary School of Northwestern CT board member, as well as Village Center for the Arts board member. Always involved in the community, Newman created and hosts the YardApes Quad-Am Golf Classic, raising $39,000 for area nonprofits since 2006. Additionally, YardApes has participated in PLANET's Day of Service since its inception, volunteering time and materials to revitalize civic venues including The Creative Playground, The Pratt Nature Center, Harrybrooke Park, Sullivan Farm, and the Brookfield Public Library, The Children's Center and the Abbey of Regina Laudis. Newman was featured on FOX News for his participation in Project EverGreen's GreenCare for Troops. In addition, the Connecticut affiliate of the American Psychological Association honored Newman with two of its five 2008 Psychologically Healthy Work Place Awards: Employee Growth and Development and Employee Recognition. He received awards alongside Pratt & Whitney and Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang camp. YardApes, Inc. is the recipient of 2011 Connecticut Chamber of Commerce Big Business Award and has been North Western Connecticut's leading service provider of residential and commercial landscapes for over twenty-two years. The award-winning landscape firm is a full-service design, construction, and maintenance company with 25 employees. For more information, visit YardApes at www.yardapes.org.