<p>Boeing Commercial Airplanes is still headquartered in the Seattle area. Design/manufacturing is still done there too, 'cept for a new factory being built in S. Carolina.</p>
<p>IDS is in St. Louis (though some work/manufacturing is done in the Seattle area too) and corporate HQ (a building a few hundred people in fancy suits) is in Chicago.</p>
<p>RocketDA works at Blue. I live in Seattle and had never heard of it before.</p>
<p>cool ill look it up</p>
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<p>Dude, what the hell, he said not to mention the company’s name.</p>
<p>Whats wrong if people know the company?</p>
<p>Just wondering</p>
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It means people can connect his online persona with his real life identity quite easily.</p>
<p>It wasn’t hard to figure out where he worked. A previous post that he made said he worked for (insert high profile CEO here) and he also referenced that Blue was a cool place to work. A simple search for the high profile CEO led me to his side venture which is involved in rockets.</p>
<p>If he would like to keep the name of his company under wraps, he’d be better off not posting as much information as he has, as it took about 3 minutes of reading his posts to figure out who his employer is.</p>
<p>(Despite the Seattle location in his profile, it didn’t help me out at all.)</p>
<p>I don’t mind if you <em>know</em> where I work. Let’s just not <em>mention</em> it in a public forum.</p>
<p>Is that okay?</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree.</p>
<p>Maybe someone should edit their posts to help this guy out?</p>
<p>Pfft.</p>
<p>I think this is all very unnecessary, but for the sake of safety, will an Admin please delete/edit the post that contains Rocket’s company name? Kthanxbye.</p>
<p>You know, when you say things like </p>
<p>"The people that I am exposed to are legends in the field. It’d be unwise of me to give names or details but they are remarkable giants and remarkable people that drive home the feeling of “omg, I can’t believe I made it here!”</p>
<p>you are just asking people to try to figure out where you work.</p>
<p>If RocketDA honestly didn’t want to bring attention to his employer, he shouldn’t go around posting things like that on message boards…he’s attracting attention to himself by pumping up where he works by using descriptions like above!</p>
<p>ya maybe someone should delete the name of the company,</p>
<p>Sorry if my thread gets/got you into any trouble Rocket</p>
<p>Bigtrees, yes, he was kind of foolish to go around saying stuff like that if he didn’t want it known where he worked, but you were pretty dumb too. It was obvious he didn’t want it broadcast where he worked, but you did it anyway. You could have just figured it out and joined the rest of us who figured it out but didn’t say anything and everything would have been fine.</p>
<p>Both of you are at fault.</p>
<p>nvm wrong post</p>
<p>My goal here is to pump up interest in a new age of aerospace. I want people to know that you don’t have to spend your life in a cubicle but rather there are still many people who are super passionate and the best way to get into these circles is through hard work and determination.</p>
<p>It is difficult to describe how incredible this revival is without including some anecdotes. My intentions are to inspire… but that’s a little bit difficult to do in general, vague terms.</p>
<p>Sorry for the mess.</p>
<p>Okay slight change of topic haha</p>
<p>RocketDA, just curious, what’s harder about working at your company than somewhere like boeing or lockheed</p>
<p>It’s interesting to compare a company like Boeing and a smaller company. Engineering is something that requires a lot of people who have specialized in different areas, or a small number of people that work for a company that has specialized in a small area. It’s nearly impossible for a small number of engineers to be very good at a broad spectrum of engineering.</p>
<p>A place like Boeing has a lot of engineers and the various engineers have various specializations. You wonder how hot 4140 steel can get without loosing the temper, you go talk to the steel guy. You wonder the max temperature of carbon fiber composite, to talk with the carbon fiber expert. You need a strain gage to measure strain on a beam, you talk to the instrumentation guy.</p>
<p>At a small company, they only have a few engineers on staff. So each engineer must understand a lot more about engineering and also be good at “doing” that kind of engineering. That’s much more difficult because there are so many details in engineering. (And they all have to be right for the product to work right.)</p>
<p>“It’s nearly impossible for a small number of engineers to be very good at a broad spectrum of engineering.”</p>
<p>I’d say the magic number is around 50… when all the bases are covered just as well as 10000 people… if not better.</p>
<p>When you pose questions like metal tempering or composite temperature as examples… I can’t help but think that anyone who is remotely proficient in materials science should be able to answer these questions perfectly fine. </p>
<p>(Funny thing is that metals always lose their temper… the rate depends on the temperature and the actual temper is time dependent. This is one reason that 2xxx series “age hardened” aluminums are refrigerated if their application requires high ductility such as rivets. Also, carbon steels follow other temper/annealing curves that are time dependent. Case hardening procedures like diffusion carbonization have a temperature-time correlation following the error function. I guess my point is that I’m not even a mechanical/materials guy and I’m able to figure a bunch of this out so the only advantage an expert may have on something like this is speed.)</p>
<p>Okay, okay… So I picked apart your example. Sorry, I couldn’t stop. But I think the same logic follows other specializations… unless you’re talking something super specialized like turbo-machinery design.</p>
<p>I used to know a lot of that materials stuff before I just blatantly forgot it. Haha. One of these days I will probably run into it again and relearn it.</p>