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Re:Joe Sutter, who guided creation of the Boeing 747, has died by asimuvPR on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:42AM (#12411085)
Airplane assembly lines are amazing. I did a tour of the Lockheed atlanta plant and ir blew my mind. Seeing a handful of c130 in line in various states of assembly was mindblowing. The scale of the place is just ridiculous. I can't imagine how the 747 line might have been.
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Re:Joe Sutter, who guided creation of the Boeing 747, has died by WalterBright on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:55AM (#12411373)
The 747 assembly line is just a thing of beauty. Boeing assembly lines are also spotlessly clean, and meticulously organized. The parts themselves are also very well made, just compare them with auto parts.
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