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Yet it was put into planes. So either it wasn't really understood in the context, or no one that knew about it was advising on the design of aircrafts.
by hvidgaard 8y ago
Yet it was put into planes. So either it wasn't really understood in the context, or no one that knew about it was advising on the design of aircrafts.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThe corners on the windows did have a fairly large radius. Just not large enough (hindsight being 20-20). I think they knew about it and thought they had more than enough margin for safety and then never thought twice about it until aircraft started falling out of the sky.
- hvidgaard 8y agoThen it wasn't well enough understood...
- willyt 8y agoI oversimplified. It was understood in specific academic circles and to an extent by leading designers, but not widely by others. The cracks actually started at a hatch on the bottom of the plane which was added to the design without going through the full engineering design QA process.