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In a message dated 8/9/2002 5:11:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, StarAerospace@aol.com writes:
Seems that the top US officials spoke to the home office in Germany and the edict came down that no Bosch products were to be sold to aircraft builders
Not surprising, considering the lottery-mentality of the population of this country, developed, aided and nurtured by the severe dysfunctionality of the ludicrous court system (amoral lawyers, bleeding-heart judges, and juries composed largely of morons).
Judging from several other comments on this subject, many of you have adopted the approach of presenting a plausible alternative explanation for your purchases.
Several other less-rational responses intimated that their approach would be to boycott the "offending" vendor for his arrogance. (These are the ones with real attitude problems.)
As many of you already know, Bosch isn't alone in this position. Gates Rubber (source of some of the best "V" and toothed belts), Morse Chain (source of the Hy-Vo link chain used in Geschwender-style PSRU's) and MANY others have taken exactly the same position.
MANY other less well-known suppliers of components into the racing industry (where the risks are also well known and where participants get killed routinely) have actually hung up the phone on me at the slightest HINT that their stuff might be used in an aircraft application. One local high-quality machine shop turned down a $100,000 job from us (for CNC machining of semi-finished parts we supplied) because of their intended destination.
One MAJOR, well-known suppliers of aluminum heads for popular V8 engines will simply terminate the call if any discussion of anything SUGGESTIVE of aircraft application comes up. Even the mention of dual plugs (not unique to aircraft applications, BTW) causes an "END OF CONVERSATION". At least one builder of aviation V8's has to get their heads (and probably other components as well) by means of two or three layers of blind-purchase fronts.
Expect more rather than less of this phenomenon as a by-product of (a) knowingly taking on the responsibility of a knowledgeable aircraft design engineer while trying to shortcut well-proven methodology by means of the label "EXPERIMENTAL", (b) if it doesn't work out in accordance with your BELIEFS (ie, when the laws of physics jump up and overrun the perceived functionality of wishful thinking), then (c) whining and sobbing about how the stuff you bought was no good instead of taking responsibility for your own lack of knowledge, insight, and/or due diligence.
Food for thought.
Jack Kane
PS: I THINK (but don't know for sure) that Bosch sells product into the European aviation industry. Wonder why............
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