by Joe Godfrey | Jan 15, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Recently I saw an ad for a furniture store encouraging me to “kickback in style”. I remember hearing that word a lot as a term for relaxation when I moved to southern California in the early 80s. Before moving, I had read that word a lot in the Chicago...
by Joe Godfrey | Dec 18, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
“A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No, I am the one who knocks!” — Walter White. Sometimes I look at my airplane the way Skyler looks at Walt in that scene. On my recent annual it was a crack in the flange of the muffler...
by Joe Godfrey | Nov 13, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Would you know the symptoms of a broken valve spring in your engine data? We’re pretty good at spotting clogged injectors and fouled plugs from their distinctive patterns. We even developed our FEVA scan for detecting burned valves. Broken valve springs can be,...
by Joe Godfrey | Oct 15, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
In our last episode, we looked at events that seem to happen randomly, versus something that breaks and stays broken. Let’s call them hiccups. I had too many for one Puzzler, so this is Hiccups Part 2. The annoying thing about hiccups is there’s no...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 16, 2021 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Hold your nose and drink a glass of water. Take a deep breath and hold it. Have someone scare you. There are lots of “cures” for the human hiccups. Don’t try these when your airplane hiccups. If you could choose, would you rather deal with something...