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French engineers were known for their willingness to embrace advanced, high-risk technologies to gain a decisive advantage in the aerospace market. French infl
by n1b0m 11mo ago
French engineers were known for their willingness to embrace advanced, high-risk technologies to gain a decisive advantage in the aerospace market.
French influence drove Airbus's early focus on understanding customer needs and adapting to market requirements. Early on, the company adopted English as its working language and U.S. measurements to appeal to a wider range of airline customers.
German engineers brought a reputation for meticulous attention to detail, efficiency, and robust industrial processes, ensuring reliable and high-quality production.
Germany's strong engineering foundation provided the technical discipline needed to standardize components and organize the complex cross-border manufacturing process.
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- thesumofall 11mo agoYes. Also the way how internal collaboration works. A lot of focus on relationship building and pre-alignments vs a content-first approach („people will accept it if it’s just correct enough“). In any real-world situation that matters it will always take a bit of both
- mmooss 11mo ago> Early on, the company adopted English as its working language and U.S. measurements to appeal to a wider range of airline customers. Airbus uses US measurements - i.e., not the metric system?
- neves 11mo agoI'm speechless
- tim333 11mo agoThey use SAE nuts and bolts. "Society of Automotive Engineers and refers to the system of inch-based fasteners used primarily in North America"
- mmooss 11mo agoIs that the standard in the airline industry? For example, does Embraer use SAE too? Lockheed (I thought the US military used metric)?
- Sprotch 11mo agoWhat’s your source for that? It reads like a cliché, especially when you know about the arguably stronger engineering background in France when it comes to aerospace.
- viewtransform 11mo agoThere was that problem with CAD software on the A380: German teams used CATIA version 4, while French had upgraded to version 5, resulting in incompatibilities. "By late autumn, a team of around 200 German mechanics was in Toulouse along with several hundred kilometers of electrical cables to be installed in the first planes. But after weeks of painstakingly threading thousands of veins of copper and aluminum wire around the walls and floor panels of the airframes, the teams had run into a maddening snag: the cables were too short. "The wiring wasn't following the expected routing through the fuselage, so when we got to the end they weren't long enough to meet up with the connectors on the next section," said one German mechanic, who said he arrived in Toulouse in early 2005. He asked not to be identified out of fear that he might lose his job. "The calculations were wrong," he said. "Everything had to be ripped out and replaced from scratch." --- nytimes https://archive.vn/uLIqa#selection-603.204-617.419 https://archive.vn/uLIqa#selection-603.204-617.419
- 4gotunameagain 11mo agoMistakes happen on large, highly complex projects involving multiple teams in multiple locations ? Colour me surprised !