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Project "Fleur-de-lys"

Back in 2007, while still living in Austria, I purchased my first road bike, composing of a no-name aluminum frame and a Shimano 105 groupset. 

Between 2007 and 2010, that bike lived ‘glorious’ days with me finishing 992nd in St. Pölten IRONMAN 70.3 (2008), and MrsK finishing 9842nd in Vätternrundan (2010).

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However, in 2011 team KEDQ purchased carbon (Guerciotti) frames, and the old bike was left neglected (and without components) in our storage room.

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Filed under  //   Cycling   Engineering  
Posted March 14, 2012
 

On space shuttle accidents

Today I gave a presentation at Volvo Aero on the causes of the Challenger, Apollo 13, and Columbia space shuttle accidents. 

Below is a part of the photos and references I used for my presentation material. 

Blow up: Who can be blamed for a disaster like the Challenger explosion? - By M. Gladwell.

PowerPoint does Rocket Science - By E. Tufte. 

Visual Explanations - By E. Tufte. 

Credit to MrBengt for pointing out the works of E. Tufte!

 

Filed under  //   Engineering  
Posted October 29, 2010
 

The ethnic theory of plane crashes

Airkorea

Today I gave a short presentation at my department @ Volvo Aero on the relationship between pilots' ethnicity, attitude towards authority, and performance inside the cockpit. The topic was inspired by the most interesting book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell, that I read a couple of weeks ago.

It is my impression that the audience truly enjoyed the talk, and found the subject very interesting. Big applaud at the end :D

I just ordered Gladwell's second book: Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. Will a presentation come out of that too? 

Filed under  //   Engineering  
Posted November 27, 2009