Boeing Internship in St. Louis

[OldSowBreath]

1. Avoid East St. Louis. 2. Don't grab co-workers' tits. You'll do fine.

[AndyToop]

1. Avoid East St. Louis. 2. Don't grab co-workers' tits. You'll do fine.

Ahh the voice of experience

[PurduePilot]

1. Avoid East St. Louis. 2. Don't grab co-workers' tits. You'll do fine.

Ahh the voice of experience

I wouldn't mind hearing how he learned those lessons.

[OldSowBreath]

I once worked in a topless bar in East St. Louis.

[Half Bottle]

I once worked in a topless bar in East St. Louis.

Did they make you wax your chest?

[el]

I once worked in a topless bar in East St. Louis.

Did they make you wax your chest?

I thought they would use open flames for that in Texas.

[ZeroAltitude]

I once worked in a topless bar in East St. Louis.

Did they make you wax your chest?

I thought they would use open flames for that in Texas.

A rusty Bowie knife methinks

[PurduePilot]

Things I learned today:

-Boeing is a humongous bureaucracy
-Product Support has about 5000 employees company-wide
-High temperatures and humidity prevail in St. Louis
-Boeing takes pretty good care of its employees
-I may be traveling
-I still don't really have a clue as to what I'm going to be doing this summer, except that it's going to be in IDS's Product Support.

[PurduePilot]

Snapped a few photos when I went downtown on Thursday.

St. Louis skyline:



A little closer to the arch...

[Sir Gallivant]

I would like to go to St. Louis again, I really like the Arch. Didn't spend much time in the city, but I did take my written exam for my ppl there in Feb. 93, and found time to go the Arch. Got a large poster in our living room of the structure.

[PurduePilot]

I would like to go to St. Louis again, I really like the Arch. Didn't spend much time in the city, but I did take my written exam for my ppl there in Feb. 93, and found time to go the Arch. Got a large poster in our living room of the structure.

I went up in the arch today. It was neat, but there's not a whole lot to see around here other than the river, skyline, and the ballpark. The tram ride up and down was as interesting as anything else.

[Half Bottle]

The tram ride up and down was as interesting as anything else.

Yep, that's the highlight, but every engineer appreciates it.

[OldSowBreath]

Brad - When you go by Union Station (which I think is a conglomeration of shops), just think that Ol'Sow used to switch trains there when he was a kid riding the rails.

[PurduePilot]

Brad - When you go by Union Station (which I think is a conglomeration of shops), just think that Ol'Sow used to switch trains there when he was a kid riding the rails.

I went there the first week I was here. Nice place, but the stores are all either "Lids" (apparently that's another word for sparkly baseball caps with flat bills and golden stickers) or sports jerseys. There are also a few restaurants, but that's about it...\




What I couldn't see from here was the cop writing me a parking ticket for parking next to a non-marked curb with no signs, no fire hydrants, no crosswalks, no driveways, nothing. Apparently I parked in a prohibited zone, along with the other 200 cars parked along that street. Funnily enough, my car was the only one in sight with a ticket on it.



Curb is in fact NOT painted.



There are in fact NO no-parking signs.



Again, no painted curb. I really don't want to pay $25

View from the Arch







Genuine Mississippi river boat!

[GlennAB1]

What I couldn't see from here was the cop writing me a parking ticket for parking next to a non-marked curb with no signs, no fire hydrants, no crosswalks, no driveways, nothing. Apparently I parked in a prohibited zone, along with the other 200 cars parked along that street. Funnily enough, my car was the only one in sight with a ticket on it.

Was yours the only one with out of state plates?

[PurduePilot]

What I couldn't see from here was the cop writing me a parking ticket for parking next to a non-marked curb with no signs, no fire hydrants, no crosswalks, no driveways, nothing. Apparently I parked in a prohibited zone, along with the other 200 cars parked along that street. Funnily enough, my car was the only one in sight with a ticket on it.

Was yours the only one with out of state plates?

I can't imagine that I was the only out-of-state tourist at Missouri's biggest tourist attraction on a Saturday afternoon, but I don't remember looking. Do you think he was being a dick? I had an Indiana State Trooper fudge a ticket against me last summer. Four lane highway and I'm in the right lane with a car passing me in the left lane, trooper pulls us both over, gives me a ticket for going 78 and the car that was passing me (and obviously going faster) got a ticket for going 72. I have Ohio plates, the other car had Indiana plates.

[Sir Gallivant]

It is obvious that you got a ticket for parking between cars that are much longer than your own vehicle. Plain simple, really, your Jeep is too small.

[Sickbag]

Might I suggest a strongly worded letter to the editor of the local newspaper?
Try and make it as conceited as possible for maximum effect.
I think you may be surprised by the result.

[GlennAB1]

Do you think he was being a dick?

Maybe one of the experts from the OTF could answer that.... one of them would probably want to look at him....

[OldSowBreath]

He was being a dick.

[supersean]

Things I learned today:

-Boeing is a humongous bureaucracy
-Product Support has about 5000 employees company-wide
-High temperatures and humidity prevail in St. Louis
-Boeing takes pretty good care of its employees
-I may be traveling
-I still don't really have a clue as to what I'm going to be doing this summer, except that it's going to be in IDS's Product Support.

Brad.... sorry didnt forget about you buddy. Can you PM me your email so I can send you the stuff... looks like I am going to need to load you down on SPP (Spare Parts Planning!). Let me know if you join a role supporting urgent customer downs as this is an entirely different set of collateral (than operations planning). I'll also post here some good reading material on the subjects

[Schorsch]

Might I suggest a strongly worded letter to the editor of the local newspaper?
Try and make it as conceited as possible for maximum effect.
I think you may be surprised by the result.

And he can write that he works for Boeing, protect the country, and ... hail "Product Support".

[PurduePilot]

I got a two hour tour (not three) of the F-18 production facility today. It was very very cool and impressive!!! Unfortunately no cameras or cell phones (or usb drives ) were allowed in the facility, so I don't have any pictures to share.

I was surprised to see how much of the airplane was manufactured outside of Boeing and brought in for assembly, and how they make it seem so easy to piece two halves of the fuselage together with only a few longerons. It's a very nice, clean facility and I was able to see pretty much the entire airplane in different stages of construction. A few of the things I found more interesting:
-Seeing several wings in various stages of construction, from a row of spars and skin panels, to the internal framework assembled in a jig, to the sealing components for the fuel tank, to the composite skin being joined, to the integration of the wing mounting points.
-The automated machinery that drills all of the holes in the wing structures (machine is massive and moves up and down the row of jigs to work where it is needed).
-Several fuselages on large (a couple hundred square feet) platforms with self-contained workspaces underneath for the installation of internal systems. These huge platforms are movable. Apparently they use a large amount of shop air underneath to lift it up off the floor and then it can be moved by only a few people whenever the aircraft progresses to the next stage.
-Several almost-finished aircraft getting the last of their components installed.
There were also a couple of F-15s and T-45s being finished up. I wish I could have taken pictures or at least describe it in greater detail--it was fascinating.

[Sir Gallivant]

I wanna know when you get to take one of the newly assembled vehicles off the shop floor and take if for a test drive

[Procede]

I wanna know when you get to take one of the newly assembled vehicles off the shop floor and take if for a test drive

It's not a 787, so it might even be able to fly.