Air Force’s Secret New Fighter Jet (probably not but still cool)

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>It is 2021 now, and German engineering work is still one of the best in the world, if not THE best.

They're good at some things, like automobiles and precision machines.  They make good cuckoo clocks, too (but not watches -- that belong to the Swiss).

But they missed the boat on atomic weapons, and perhaps more critically, programmable computers.  Took them FOREVER to leave their four-ring binders behind and transition to modern information systems.  They still badly lag in computer hardware and software, I am aware of only one large German firm that does database work and is among the leaders in the field.

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one thing about german engineering, they tend to over engineer things. i use to repair electrical equipment. we also did mechanical repairs. they would put way to many relays, overloads, contactors, switches, and other things in some circuts. then there was this one brand of pneumatic and rotary hammers, that had so many different size shims to space out the cylinder that ran through a housing that had a support boss that if you put the the shims in the wrong place it wouldn't work. the overall length was the same but if you put a shim that was a 1000th thicker or smaller in the wrong position, the wouldn't hit or turn right.  

when their stuff is working, it's fine equipment or what ever it is. when it breaks it's a pain in the ass to work on.

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I was manager for a while of the print department for a company that made plastic bottles and silk-screened the labels onto them. My department revolved around a Kamann silk screen printing machine. The only reason they hired me was due to my electronics background, because I could deal with the relays and switches and logic circuits to keep that damned thing running. The power and switching panel was as big as the doggone machine was, and packed full of intricate little doodads. The timing on the machine was perfect, but it took 45 minutes for me to set it up before every run and get the timing adjusted to the bottle size. It could be finicky... but once it was set, it ticked along like a clock. I could print 1500 to 2000 bottles an hour on it, and keep the packers that worked for me busy. They liked the set up time as well - I had to herd them out of the break room when it was time to rock and roll!


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