gallois wrote:
The court of public opinion
Could some native English speaker explain what this “court” actually is. I find it hard to grasp. Is it a phenomenon that just happens (by wishful thinking??) , or is it created by people. What exactly is it?
Court of public opinion by Wiki…
LeSving wrote:
Anyway, in 5-10 years, no one remembers this, unless of course, “the public court” makes people remember, which I personally think is highly unlikely
Unless of course 5-10 years from now people are flying planes with laser cut parts that have hardly noticeable cracks at nearly every hole, like we have all seen from photos and YouTube videos.
God forbid this tragedy doesn’t rears its head again in that manner. Even if Van’s says don’t fly with any laser cut parts, inevitably there will be people who don’t take this seriously. This has the potential to add extra scrutiny to the entire home built community not just Van’s.
So most likely the rivets will start to smoke before a complete failure. That makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
If Van’s believes that laser cut parts are equal or superior to punched parts I have a message for them. Don’t switch back to punched parts. Once again they know this is only throwing a relatively small group under the bus.
The “court” is just an English phrase.
In reality, in GA, people are so cautious and suspicious that this won’t change a lot – except as I said earlier the new RVs will get much closer prebuy checks. But not even that; you can put anything for sale and for every clued-up buyer there will be 1-2 clueless ones who will just buy anything.
The way business psychology works is that a customer who has had a problem and had it promptly fixed will be more loyal than a customer who never had a problem. But that will not work usefully in this case because
For those interested, here’s a vid that has just been uploaded, of “What’s Happening at Van’s Aircraft” forum which took place at today’s AirVenture. Quite interesting contents, though unfortunately filmed for those people having one eye located above the other, iso of the horizontal eye location, next to each other, more commonly found in the human species.
Dan wrote:
here’s a vid that has just been uploaded
Really interesting. They are (and have been) going surprisingly deep into it. Even punching up to final size was duly tested before it went into production some time ago. Laser cut holes (when done correctly) are in general better than punched holes. With the loading Van’s use on the rivets, they will both outlast the plane by several orders of magnitude, so better/worse is purely of academic interest.
The issue, as I understand it, are only those holes that are not cut correctly (by the laser).
LeSving wrote:
Really interesting. They are (and have been) going surprisingly deep into it. Even punching up to final size was duly tested before it went into production some time ago. Laser cut holes (when done correctly) are in general better than punched holes. With the loading Van’s use on the rivets, they will both outlast the plane by several orders of magnitude, so better/worse is purely of academic interest.The issue, as I understand it, are only those holes that are not cut correctly (by the laser).
Isn’t it kind of funny that a single video published on YouTube can swing people’s opinion 180 degrees?
@LeSving how do you know the video is real, not an AI generated deep fake posted by some undercover Vans secret agent?
After all we have several posters here who know better what a dangerous mess this is
Has that video swung people’s opinion 180°?
Is there evidence of that?
