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It’s hard to tell if you can improve technology until it’s good enough (jet engines) or if it’s a futile dead end. Kelly Johnson of Skunkworks had a keen mind
by newsclues 3y ago
It’s hard to tell if you can improve technology until it’s good enough (jet engines) or if it’s a futile dead end.
Kelly Johnson of Skunkworks had a keen mind for differentiating between them.
- class3shock 3y agoIt is indeed and sometimes it can go either way depending on the time point. A good example is what eventually became the PW GTF, the PW8000, discussed here: https://cornponepapers.blogspot.com/2006/04/short-life-and-untimely-demise-of.html https://cornponepapers.blogspot.com/2006/04/short-life-and-u... Just a little bit to early but when they came back to the idea they ended up with a technology that they use on all their new (big) commercial engines. For anyone that doesn't know the name Kelly Johnson I recommend "Kelly: More Than My Share of It All". A rare person who combined technical genius with an ability to get large scale things done.