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That would be an overworked engineer IMO. Should the engineer that designs the air frame go weld it together? One issue, if the system resetting and no honori
by linuxftw 8y ago
That would be an overworked engineer IMO. Should the engineer that designs the air frame go weld it together?
One issue, if the system resetting and no honoring the maximum authority to do so would not have been caught by a half-software engineer. That's definitely something the software team should have caught if there was any amount of reasonable QA involved.
It's clear to me Boeing doesn't employ capable people on the software side.
- tonyarkles 8y agoNot necessarily go weld it together, but they should be going and spending time with the welders. Ben Rich’s memoirs from the Skunkworks talks about this a fair bit. Around there, having the engineers close to the fabricators was one of their central tenets, and the engineers did occasionally roll up their sleeves in the shop. With the SR71, at one point when they were fighting with a nasty engine problem, Ben himself was going to go up on a flight so that the pilot could show him what was happening.
- linuxftw 8y agoI agree, they should work as closely together as possible. But it's still a team effort, not one person involved in large aspects of the process by themselves.