Star Simpson

On The Metal

• Episode: Star Simpson
• Website: On The Metal
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/on-the-metal-0294649e-ec23-4eab-975a-9eb13fd94e06
• Duration: 01:35:14
• Published: 2021-01-18 15:00

You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots.

• Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers
• Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior
• RadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack
• "Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html
• Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company
• Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
• TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/
• TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676
• TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter
• Wired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/
• FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/
• FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf
• Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/
• Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
• Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
• Checklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist
• United Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html
• United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA
• TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II
• National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board
• ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592
• Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
• Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
• Lockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
• Clarence "Kelly" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell)
• Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky
• Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies
• Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_Landing
• SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygod
• Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts
• Convertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane
• The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine