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>This is an tiny kit plane from a Czech manufacturer, though, not a company in Tanzania sourcing components from elsewhere for their own design. So? There's m
by nvy 3y ago
>This is an tiny kit plane from a Czech manufacturer, though, not a company in Tanzania sourcing components from elsewhere for their own design.
So? There's more skill in that than in what, say, System76 does. Just installing Linux on a rebranded Clevo laptop and giving it a cringey name.
Tanzania has to start somewhere if they want to grow their industrial base.
- vidarh 3y agoSo comparing it to an aircraft manufacturer sourcing components and outsourcing in response to someone asking if it meant it was manufactured elsewhere is entirely irrelevant. This is a plane that anyone can buy off the shelf and put together themselves. You can message the Czech manufacturer on Facebook if you want one. Total cost is around $100k. This isn't Boeing having a lot of subcontractors.
- nvy 3y agoWho's claiming that it is? Why are people in such a rush to shit on this company?
- buildsjets 3y agoBecause this is literally the direct equivalent of a company buying unassembled products from Ikea, assembling them, and then claiming to be a furniture manufacturer. There was no transformative element to what they created, they bought an off-the-shelf consumer kit and built it. Pull out your credit card, invest about 2000 hours of fairly basic manual labor, and you can do the same thing. Tens of thousands of other people have already done so.
- nvy 3y ago>Because this is literally the direct equivalent of a company buying unassembled products from Ikea, assembling them, and then claiming to be a furniture manufacturer. Please cite where AAL claims to be an aircraft manufacturer.
- vidarh 3y agoNobody is shitting on them. I'm reacting to you comparing them to Boeing. It's great they're doing this, but it's also not something that is meaningful to compare to a company that actually designs planes.
- hedgehog 3y agoBoeing's first aircraft design was highly derivative of another plane Bill Boeing had purchased. Porsche, regarded by many as having the best-engineered sports cars in the world, didn't have a fully in-house design until 1978 (almost 50 years after founding). Tesla started with a Lotus Elise derivative. Getting started with an existing design and working backward is a well-proven path to building a business when it's something as high stakes and complicated as an airplane.
- vidarh 3y agoIf/when there is any indication that they are designing their own or adding anything to or modifying the design, then that will warrant a comparison with companies that does that. At present, what they have done is buy an off the shelf kit that comes with parts and detailed instructions and followed the instructions.
- User23 3y ago> Porsche, regarded by many as having the best-engineered sports cars in the world, didn't have a fully in-house design until 1978 (almost 50 years after founding). Ferdinand Porsche also founded VW so that’s a bit misleading, perhaps even intentionally so. Also the German economic system pretty much kept the good parts of fascism after the war, by requiring companies to work cooperatively both with their workers’ councils and each other.