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Spoiler: they don't know anything about it, no pictures and no specs. The company that worked on it is not revealed. Really the most notable thing is that it to
by carabiner 6y ago
Spoiler: they don't know anything about it, no pictures and no specs. The company that worked on it is not revealed. Really the most notable thing is that it took only a year. The P-51 Mustang was conceived and put into service (wartime) also in a year.
It really is an achievement to go from concept to first flight in a year for a modern aircraft.
- dylan604 6y agoWhen you don't design by committee, you can do things in a much quicker fashion. However, once people find out about it, they are going to start requesting a lot of changes because it's not the design they wanted.
- fred_is_fred 6y agoAlso true for all software projects.
- dylan604 6y agoThat's exactly why I worded it without referencing airplanes. It's kind of a universal statement about committees.
- sosborn 6y agoMy theory: In any organization there is a magic number of committee members, that once achieved, assures that the project will fail.
- Yoofie 6y agoI was just thinking about this the other day when reading the comments on small nuclear reactors and how many organizations, governments and countries can't accomplish anything of significance in a timely, costly or efficient manner. I was thinking it should be written like a law: The success of a project or goal is inversely proportional to the number stakeholders, investors and/or general labour involved in the project/business/goal. This idea is closely related to the 80/20 rule, the cost/performance/quality decision triangle, etc.
- disown 6y agoThe mythical man month.
- coredog64 6y agoThe initial F-16 project faced that issue and the Fighter Mafia was pretty successful in preventing scope/mission creep.