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Aircraft parts also generally have tighter engineering margins (strength etc) than other engineered products because there's a huge need to keep weight to a min
by cameldrv 6y ago
Aircraft parts also generally have tighter engineering margins (strength etc) than other engineered products because there's a huge need to keep weight to a minimum. If they're not built according to the design, as you say, no bueno.
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- buran77 6y ago> have tighter engineering margins But still have to cover very wide operational margins (they are overspecced) because many failures are catastrophic so they can't run on the edge of failing all the time.