• Question: what was the first project you ever done

    Asked by hannahr to Andrei, Dominique, Mark, Masha, Sarah on 3 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Catherall

      Mark Catherall answered on 3 Nov 2016:

      Hmm, well I think it was trying to work out if the tyres were going to explode at another race after they exploded at a race in America in 2008. Luckily they didn’t explode again that year!

    • Photo: Sarah Hunt

      Sarah Hunt answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      My first ever project was modelling a switch for a helicopter laser. The helicopter uses lasers and radar for navigation. Whenever I see an Apache helicopter in the sky or on TV, I have a daft grin on my face because I remember it being my first real engineering job 🙂

    • Photo: Masha Folk

      Masha Folk answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      My very first job was to look at the inlet of the Bell-Boeing V22 Osprey engine. You might know this airplane because it’s very unique. It has two engines that drive propellers and it takes off from the ground like a helicopter, with the rotors spinning over your head (if you imagine that you’re the pilot inside). Then, once it has taken off the ground, it tilts the engines 90 degrees so that now the propellers are in front of you (you’re still the pilot inside) and it flies like an airplane. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen!

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