Mar 25, 2019
Craig is with Jack Heath on the Auto Fair listener lines. They discussed the importance of STEM education and the current problems on the Boeing 737 Max.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 03/25/2019
Boeing 737 Max Problems - Importance Of STEM Education For Society
Craig Peterson 0:00
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always text me 855-385-5553. Excuse me. 855-385-5553 Well, this
morning, I was on with Mr. Jack Heath. And we spend quite a bit of
time talking about what's happening with Boeing and my concerns
about it as well as what's happening with the army recruiting they
were on a little earlier on his radio show and they mentioned stem
so of course I got into that little bit as well so here we go.
Jack Heath 2:34
Colonel Anzalone as we go to some Tech Talk we just had Colonel Ron
Anzalone with us arm and he was talking about how Craig Peterson as
we turn to our Tech Talk guy on the Auto Fair listener lines. Craig
and his show airs Saturday later in the morning on our iHeart news
talk stations. Craig, the colonel somewhat in effort to recruit
young people in the army in Boston, they're going to be taking part
in that gamer weekend, you know, these these games and some
colleges now are basically coming up with four year courses and
what I would call, you know, e-game. You know, I don't know,
gaming, you know, video stuff, games and all the technology that
goes with it as a way to reach more recruits. But interesting
stuff. The other thing I want to get from you, Craig, is Boeing has
a real challenge now working on the software adjustment for the 737
max class.
Craig 3:19
Yeah, Hey, good morning, Jack. There. I love the fact that you
brought up STEM because I've always felt it's so important. That's
the science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It's
something that US First has really emphasized over the years. And
of course, that's started right here. Something Dean Kamen helped
to really spearhead. And that's the first robotics competition. You
know, when I had a longer show, in fact, we used to go three, four
hours during the finals.
Jack 3:50
I remember that.
Craig 3:51
Yeah, it was fantastic. But these kids, these are the future. And
I've said that for so long, getting your kid involved. Almost every
school in New Hampshire has a program. It starts when they're young
with Lego. And then moves all the way up to the big robots, where
they're doing everything from the business plan, how we're going to
raise money, how we're going to do out to outreach, how we're going
to have safety when we're building these things? They have
different sub teams, the marketing people that are involved, and
we're talking about kids in high school, all the way through, how
do we accomplish this task were assigned to accomplish with the
robot? Well, we are given some very, very limited parts of
basically just the controllers. So how do we want to make our
robot? What we're gonna make it out of? You see these things made
out of PVC, out of wood, out of different types of metals, and then
they come to the competition, and we're in competition season now.
And it's just fantastic. And that's what the not only the
military's looking for, is the kids with these abilities, not only
to to play the games, but to design the software, design the
hardware, design the systems. And I think this outreach you're
doing is fantastic. It's going to be great for the military. And
then we get down to the FAA side of things, Jack, and what's
happening with Boeing. And, man, this is a really big story. And
again, I don't want to say I told you so. So I'm not going to say
it.
Craig 5:29
I really was worried about these European airplanes, because the
basic design difference between what Boeing was doing at the time,
and these European planes, Boeing bowling was designed so that if
you wanted to disagree with the plane, you fought against the
plane, you pulled harder on that stick or push harder or turn
harder or, or with the flaps or whatever you wanted to do. Whereas
the European planes are coming out were all based on computers and,
and you had to walk through multiple screens. You might remember
the first error, but I think it was the very first one crashed
right when they were demonstrating it for the very first time to
potential purchasers, because it overrode what the pilots wanted to
do. And the pilots' natural instincts were completely ignored.
Well, this is what I've warned about when we're talking about
automation, it really appears that these 737 Max jets with this new
anti stall system, and it's technically called the maneuvering
characteristics Augmentation System. But this new anti stall system
is overriding the pilot's inputs. The pilot should be able to fight
with pet stick, if it works. If the pilot one set nose up, it
should be able to fight with the plane. And the plane should then
be saying, okay, pilot, I'm going to do what you want to do. But
you know, I'm going to fight with you a little bit because I
disagree. That is a huge design change in Boeing's mind from what
it was 20 years ago. And it is scary as heck. Because we are not
computer operators. We have our natural instincts, the way we
respond, the way we worked all of these gears. You can't all of a
sudden put a system in place. not have the instrumentation on on
the board, but you can't put a system in place that overrides the
pilots input.
Jack 7:42
Well that's why I'm not a big fan of Teslas, the driverless cars
are always the more automation I think the driver always needs to
be, you know, ultimately responsible. Anyway. That's good stuff,
Craig, we'll see where it all goes and pointing to talk about on
the tech side. Thank you.
Craig 7:50
Absolutely. Thanks Jack.
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