Giant things that blog
After the BLDGBLOG lecture at UCL last week, Mark, Russell, James and myself retired to the Malborough Arms for post-match analysis; and Russell dropped on us the fact that Roll-Royce’s jet engines are now prolific bloggers.
They twitter about what they are doing back home to Derby from wherever they are above the globe, 33000 feet up.
At the risk of sounding a bit like one of the guest publications on ‘Have I got news for you’, here’s a quote from Aviation Maintenance Magazine that Rusell found to back-up his pub-fact
‘Engine diagnostics, and predictive analysis that our technical people are doing, feed into the operations control room, the hub of global fleet support for large engines, to see how they are performing, combined with flight log monitoring.’The company is able to monitor 3,000 engines in real time, collating technical data streamed via satellite in flight.’
Of course, there must be an entire swathe of giant things that blog, and have been blogging since the dawn of telemetry; but it still seems faintly magical.
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(Via Blackbeltjones/Work.)
