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I wonder how much we've learned from the Saturn V project where the majority of the crucial knowledge (including for the machines that build the parts for the m
by renewiltord 1y ago
I wonder how much we've learned from the Saturn V project where the majority of the crucial knowledge (including for the machines that build the parts for the machines that build the parts) was undocumented. Hopefully a lot but maybe we just forward evolve instead.
I'm always impressed that America's moribund manufacturing industry nonetheless makes prodigious amounts of expensive vehicles. It feels like one year I was hearing about the terrible failure that the F-35 was and the next year I looked up and we've got more than a thousand of them - enough to dwarf any other conventional air force.
- cwillu 1y agoThe whining about F-35 was always transparently nonsense, and happened more or less with every generation of attack and fighter jet.
- nradov 1y agoThe whining wasn't completely nonsense: the JSF / F-35 program is a prime example of procurement malpractice where the government set flawed initial requirements which made the final product later, more expensive, and less capable than it should have been. Congress and the Department of Defense repeated the same errors from the debacle of the TFX / F-111 program and then compounded the problem with additional unforced errors like trying to do concurrent testing and production. But in the end the F-35 really does work pretty well by all credible accounts. It could have been a lot worse.