Another Week Away
Now that I am finally home I can talk a little bit about what I did while I was away! I was a part of a fly over for the Nascar race in Texas. Our group flew down to Fort Worth, Texas to support our aircraft in completing some training – flying with different types of aircraft – and doing the flyover. We ended up with some rainy weather that caused the pilots to be a little late on the flyover – so it was not broadcast on TV like planned. The rain also cancelled the race but it was a cool experience and gave our pilots some extra training. On the way back, one of our jets broke and landed in Utah – as maintainers we headed there to repair the jet.
Our original flights home were cancelled and off we went to Utah to diagnose and repair the jet. We ran into some challenges as the base did not normally support F-15’s – causing a scramble for parts. After some coordination with our base out in Portland we managed to get the jet up in the air by Thursday to fly home. We packed up and headed home ourselves on Friday.
Technology Research
While I was gone I started researching the technology for the aspects of the project I am responsible for. To start I was tasked with how to deploy Flutter onto both iOS and Android devices – including getting them onto the proper stores. Next I checked into some options for prototyping our application from wireframes to functional prototypes – and decided to settle on Adobe XD. Finally I assisted with some research into blockchain options. The most sensible option seemed to be Hyperledger Sawtooth as it is used for tracking food lifecycles already – making it easy to see how it can be used to track wine lifecycles!
