Last week I received a legal threat over a spreadsheet we have posted on the website. I am not sure who was behind it, the e-mail address that it originated from looked to be temporary. The name looked to be fake.
The threat regarded a ‘beam in a socket’ method that appears in the Lockheed Stress Notes. This (possibly) well meaning individual thought that the method was a proprietary Lockheed method and had built up some level of outrage that we had posted a spreadsheet version of the method to the site.
I knew that the same method also appears in other company manuals so was unlikely to be a method derived in-house by, and exclusively for the use of, Lockheed.
I put out a call for help on our Linked in ‘Aircraft Stress Analysis’ group to see if we could find a public domain resource or a mathematical derivation and a whole group of helpful engineers contributed information both publicly, posted to the discussion, and privately directly to me.
It is occasions like these that reminds me of how helpful, professional and generally fantastic people engineers are. So thanks to all for your support and assistance.
Good engineering karma to all.
Richard Abbott
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