by Joe Godfrey | May 14, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Of all the anomalies that can quickly grab your attention in-flight, which one is second on your list? Because obviously a fire is at the top of the list. For me it’s a rough runner, but a change in oil pressure is right there with it. The IO-520-K in my...
by Joe Godfrey | Apr 15, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I’m in the middle of Walter Isaacson’s new book on Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna. She co-founded CRISPR which is an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Imagine having the tools to make humans immune to viruses...
by Joe Godfrey | Mar 18, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I heard a weathercaster dig up the old “In like a lion, out like a lamb” line recently in reference to the weather in March. As I write this we don’t know if this year’s “out” will be a lamb or something more fierce. But it got me...
by Joe Godfrey | Feb 16, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Part of the job of engine data analysis is separating relevant, useful information from red herrings. I always wondered why there were two definitions for red herrings; the first is a smoked fish and the second was something meant to distract from the main issue in an...
by Joe Godfrey | Jan 9, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
This is part two of an article about sticky valves. Part one is here. The cliffhanger was a Cessna 182 with a wobbly trace in EGT 4 for the first 14 mins of ground ops. Your homework was to decide if it was a sticky valve or something else. Here’s the whole...
