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I would disagree. History is full of airplanes that were built or modified (sometimes improved) by hackers. There's an immensely successful experimental aircr

• WalterBright 7y ago
  > History is full of airplanes that were built or modified (sometimes improved) by hackers. The FAA won't let you fly it until an engineer goes over your design. For very good reason. An unbalanced airplane isn't going to fly, and one that isn't strong enough will fold up on you. There's a thin line between strong enough to hold together and light enough to get off the ground - and you cannot find that without math. There were many hacker airplanes before the Wrights. They were all too heavy, too underpowered, too unstable, and too weak to fly. The Wrights, with math, solved those problems.