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The split is political. It can be quite inefficient: When the Airbus A380 was in development, the non-unified production caused severe delays because only at as
by tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y ago
The split is political. It can be quite inefficient: When the Airbus A380 was in development, the non-unified production caused severe delays because only at assembly did Airbus discover that the electric cables are not long enough to connect the different plane parts[1].
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-airbus.3860198.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11i...
- noir_lord 9y agoI'm trying to remember where I read about Airbus designing the plane in two different places and when they built the thing it turned out that one place was using version X-1 and the other X and that caused really subtle problems with alignment. I'm sure it was Airbus but I can't find the article. EDIT: Found it http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 Offtopic but the "Catalogue of Catastrophe" is a damn good read http://calleam.com/WTPF/?page_id=3 http://calleam.com/WTPF/?page_id=3 Basically a "why things failed/cost a fortune that shouldn't" list for large projects.