Doing CAD Till 5 in the morning | Gods Chosen Turbomachinery Engineer *in training* | Christ Is Lord ☦️| Founding Engineer @ratiodrones
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Week 1 of the JT15D teardown is done!
We pulled the accessory gearbox, got into the external engine lines, and started getting a real feel for what 10+ years in a warehouse does to an engine.
Every fitting was a fight, every seal was fused, and I learned pretty quickly that this teardown is going to demand a lot more patience than I expected.
One thing I did not anticipate is how long quality videos actually take to produce. Between the teardown sessions, the scanning, the documentation, and everything else happening on this project, there is just not enough time right now to film and edit the videos I actually want to make.
So for now I am capturing as much footage as I can, and once the teardown is complete I plan to go back through everything and put together videos with a bit more production quality behind them.
Massive thank you to @jimbelosic
@MaxLobovsky (more on that soon)
and every single person who contributed to the crowdfund.
NONE of this would have been possible without all of you all who decided to support this project, so thank you!
An on the ITAR questions, I ran it by an ip attorney and they cant find any issues with doing this, But we are still going through the proper CJ paperwork to have hard evidence that this engine has ZERO compliance issues.
This is only the beginning.
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Phoenix𝕏 retweeted
Fun fact: if you get a large enough machine tool, it can double as a stage for an all hands meeting.
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would it be worth it to spring load the actual supercharger handles or all upcoming vehicle ports ?
that way when you hit yes it just pops out once you hit the confirm button
the thought is it wouldn’t damage the supercharger , it would just be left on the ground
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can’t wait to be 80 and get scammed by the 25 year old colombian chick who is into jet engines
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Community note
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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delta is cooked
3.For anyone suddenly reconsidering their airline loyalty: we can match your Delta status and keep you connected at 35k feet with Starlink soon. 👀 connectaa.co/AAdvStatusMatch
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can we acknowledge that boeing military and boeing commercial are basically 2 different companies
The Department of War has confirmed the Navy's F/A-XX contract award to Boeing, officially announcing what Breaking Defense reported today, citing sources, just hours earlier. The contract is valued at more than $20 billion for full-scale development, covering multiple test aircraft for ground, airworthiness, systems, and weapons integration testing.
Part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, F/A-XX will augment and eventually replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler starting in the 2030s, operating alongside the carrier variant F-35C. The Navy says it will also be interoperable with Collaborative Combat Aircraft, increasing the capability of every CCA it teams with.
"The F/A-XX is a critical pillar in our commitment to maintaining peace through strength," said Michael Duffey, Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, adding the program will help "deter aggression, project undisputed power, and secure absolute air superiority." Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao called it "a generational leap in air superiority."
The award makes Boeing the sole U.S. producer of sixth-generation fighters, having already won the Air Force's F-47 contract in March 2025, effectively locking Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman out of that category for now. Lockheed continues building the fifth-generation F-35.
Source: war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…
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