Composite Technology Corporation (fka CPTQE)

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The mindset of most college trained engineers that I have met always seems to be toward doing things the "safe" way. When I was dabbling around in drag racing in the late 1960's the best of the engineers from GM, Ford and Mopar were usually the ones who had messed around with hot rods when they were kids. The typical "book learners" could tell you 1,000 reasons why something would not work. The engineers that actually had grease under their fingernails were the ones who always seemed to build better and faster cars. Go figure.

The perfect examples of the different types of thinking are what you see with N.A.S.A. and privateers like Burt Rutan. If G.W. Bush wants to see a man on the moon again in the next ten years they should offer a ten billion dollar prize to the first company that can send a crew to the moon. If N.A.S.A does it they will probably need $100 billion to do it.
These comments are JMHO and are not meant to offend ALL engineers; just the ones with their head up their rectum.

Dennis