Scholl stopped his correction to avoid further security scrutiny.
Fun fact: traveling with turbine blades and vanes in your carryon is a surefire @TSA conversation starter.
One agent told me it was fine because cast iron is allowed. I started to say "no, it's advanced nickel superalloy" and remembered to shut up just barely in time.
Users find the TSA turbine blade mix-up funny and enthusiastically suggest building or buying cast iron version merch as humorous swag.
@bscholl @TSA The eternal struggle
One of the hardest challenges I give myself: be the same person publicly that I am privately.
The harder challenge: be the same person publicly that I am within my own mind.
This is why y’all get dad jokes and unhinged opinions.
@bscholl @TSA Would be cool. Sounds like you aren’t testing your engines hard enough if they aren’t some lying around. But I guess I’ll wait for them, clean or failed haha
@CapitalOnValue @TSA Our yields were really good so almost all the blades are going into the engine.
I'm actually traveling with a production spare that's fully qualified to go into the engine.
But we should figure out some way to do this kind of merch. It'd be great.
@bscholl @TSA I have similar stories about getting through security pre-9/11 with high power SCRs. They are ceramic with metal plates on the ends and wire coming out the side:
@bscholl @TSA Got any Boom branded HPT st 1 blades for available swag?
@CapitalOnValue @TSA Well we haven’t started the engine testing yet. Highly likely this generates some debris
@bscholl @TSA My wife says that’s the part I can’t do
@bscholl @TSA Being correct is not always the priority.
@bscholl @TSA I brought some massive triple barrel fuses, probably around 25/30 pounds each, through the airport and when I told them it was a fuse, they asked me where you light it
@bscholl @TSA Got a good laugh at that! Hard earned lesson.
@bscholl @TSA Ok, that’s funny!
@bscholl @TSA "They're spare parts. I've been hearing some things about your maintenance..."
@bscholl @TSA lol
@bscholl @TSA
@bscholl @TSA Ha Awesome!
@bscholl @TSA Just as long as it's not mercury.
Mercury dissolves aluminum.
(Planes are made of large amounts of aluminum.)
@ThresherKing @bscholl @TSA or gallium
@bscholl @TSA Cast iron turbine blades sound fun
@bscholl @TSA I managed to travel with a 5lb stainless steel 1500psi pressure regulator. They took it out and everything. What even is the point of the TSA 🤣
@bscholl @jonostrower @TSA Can verify