Originally Posted by
Airhoss
Funny you say that about the clone parts. I was just talking to a guy at another airline that bought some used Chinese busses. They had so much pencil whipping and cloned out parts in them that they are retiring most of them early.
I have friends who say a lot of fake parts that do not conform to specs and a lot of pencil whipping goes on in developing countries.
An engineer friend who worked on Chernobyl came to the US and took citizenship. He said one thing he absolutely loves about this country is people work to conform to specs and standards. When he worked in the Ukraine (as part of the USSR) he was expected to ignore testing and pencil whip most things other than the bare minimum to sort of get it to work.
