Summer is Approaching

The title should come as no surprise to anyone, of course summer is approaching, it does the same thing every year. But what it means for NASA, is that the Spring Interns are leaving this Friday. But what it means for me, is that I will be only one of two interns still working here next week. Having an office that could fit six people comfortably with only two people will be interesting, I expect we'll have a lot of chair races around the room with all the extra space.

So the end of the spring intern session also means that many of the intern projects are drawing to a close. Mine is not though, I still have another two full weeks of research to complete (approximately), and that's a good thing because it has taken some interesting turns within the last day. What turns? Well if I told you now, you wouldn't have any reason to come to the presentations. So in lieu of describing my research, I'll talk about the Airloads test that I've been doing the safety monitoring for. The test hasn't been going as well as they planned, there are a lot of components that are breaking down. So what's broken so far?

1. Dynamic Actuators
2. The Chip Detector Warning Light went off
3. One of the M-G sets blew a fuse the size of a VW bug
4. Bolts holding the rotor blades together have sheared off
5. Bolts holding the transmission were sheared off
6. Many other things

Its beginning to seem like there is more downtime fixing the LRTA than time spent running. Hopefully this will change before the Navy kicks us out in order to test their super-secret project.

P.S. If I didn't do this, I would be breaking a promise to Cody. So to everyone who doubted Cody, Coachella was incredible and you should have been there.