Doctor Feel
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Port Adelaide and Saab Australia teaming to inspire the next generation
Port Adelaide and Saab Australia have teamed up to inspire the next generation into studies that will lead them to careers in STEM.
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Doctor Feel
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Amazing company like SAAB getting involved in indigenous STEM is pretty huge and i'd wager quite rare.
Hopefully this leads to a long partnership as SAAB is getting to be a pretty big employee in SA and growing.
Hopefully this leads to a long partnership as SAAB is getting to be a pretty big employee in SA and growing.
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I like this. SAAB made my favourite fighter jet. The almighty Viggen.
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I like this. SAAB made my favourite fighter jet. The almighty Viggen.
Why on earth is that your favourite jet?
General Motors bought SAAB Automobile back in 2000.Replacing MG
Mind you, I guess its the same as linking to the old British MG...
I just did the exact same search to find my favoutite jet as a kid, then saw it already posted !
TBird is correct
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Port Adelaide and Saab Australia teaming to inspire the next generation
Port Adelaide and Saab Australia have teamed up to inspire the next generation into studies that will lead them to careers in STEM.www.portadelaidefc.com.au
Now we just need a federal government that actually supports science instead of being hellbent on destroying it (exploratory geologists excepted)
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TIL that some people have favourite jets.
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This partnership/project has had a 3.5 year gestation period, or longer.
The technology development group I used to be involved with were looking at getting involved with a health/biotech product. One of the guys doing consulting for the health/biotech company was also doing consulting work for SAAB Group and had been working closely with their MD Andy Keough and lobby the federal government about a defence contract. He had worked in Canberra for over a decade.
He found out I was a Port fan, like him, and we had a few meetings over coffee to talk Port stuff and a bit of business stuff. He was really keen to introduce Port to SAAB and also wanted to see if my group and Port could get involved in an Aboriginal health unit in the Riverland and help expand it.
SAAB like all defence contractors are worried about having enough kids doing STEM subjects to increase the pool and depth of talent they can draw from in the future. They had apparently invented some great Virtual Reality product for military use, but were looking at modifying it, so kids could work with it, and use it as a way to hook them into STEM studies.
My colleague had talked about taking the revised product and putting it onto a bus so it could become a mobile trade show for kids in the city and outback, and linking it in with Port's Community Programs as well as using the ADF programs links. I know he had several conversations with KT and introduced him to SAAB's MD Andy Keough. But last time I talked about it with him was late 2019. The monies didn't come thru and the health/biotech product didn't progress.
Not everything is done on a meeting and a handshake deal a few weeks later.
The technology development group I used to be involved with were looking at getting involved with a health/biotech product. One of the guys doing consulting for the health/biotech company was also doing consulting work for SAAB Group and had been working closely with their MD Andy Keough and lobby the federal government about a defence contract. He had worked in Canberra for over a decade.
He found out I was a Port fan, like him, and we had a few meetings over coffee to talk Port stuff and a bit of business stuff. He was really keen to introduce Port to SAAB and also wanted to see if my group and Port could get involved in an Aboriginal health unit in the Riverland and help expand it.
SAAB like all defence contractors are worried about having enough kids doing STEM subjects to increase the pool and depth of talent they can draw from in the future. They had apparently invented some great Virtual Reality product for military use, but were looking at modifying it, so kids could work with it, and use it as a way to hook them into STEM studies.
My colleague had talked about taking the revised product and putting it onto a bus so it could become a mobile trade show for kids in the city and outback, and linking it in with Port's Community Programs as well as using the ADF programs links. I know he had several conversations with KT and introduced him to SAAB's MD Andy Keough. But last time I talked about it with him was late 2019. The monies didn't come thru and the health/biotech product didn't progress.
Not everything is done on a meeting and a handshake deal a few weeks later.
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Just happen to be working on one of our systems owned by SAAB now....
Installed in the pod behind the nose wheel.
Installed in the pod behind the nose wheel.
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What's your favourite brand of ballistic missile?
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bomberclifford
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Old school. Like your car preferences.
I just did a little google and found that there is one called NO DONG.
That one is now my favourite.
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With old Sven in the back banging away to keep the engine going. If that was DCS has taught me.I like this. SAAB made my favourite fighter jet. The almighty Viggen.
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Not Minuteman?
My old home town made a tourist attraction of ballistic missiles:
Jet planes too - as well as that Meteor, there's also a Canberra bomber:
And even Australia's own Jindivik (used for target practice):
My favourite ballistic missile though? The Bloodhound of course:
