Good comment and I agree with you, except maybe in this case they would have 2 pilots, 2 mechanics, 2 people from the war department, 2 people from the treasury

Good comment and I agree with you, except maybe in this case they would have 2 pilots, 2 mechanics, 2 people from the war department, 2 people from the treasury, the core engineering team, and a secretary - when you need approvals, it might be easier to have a meeting also be a presentation where people put their stamp on the document immediately afterwards instead of running the meeting two or three different times.