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Re:SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf] by thelambentonion on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:09PM (#13340743)
Big planes have an order of magnitude lower complexity than a rocket of the Falcon 9's caliber. That's a somewhat subjective statement, I'm sure, but even if it weren't the case there's so much variation between each Falcon 9 I'd be surprised if they could crank that many out with any reasonable amount of QA.
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Re:SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf] by msl on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:20AM (#13342825)
The Soviet Union managed to produce their Soyuz-U rockets at a higher pace than that some four decades ago [1] while achieving a success rate of > 97%. Sure, it's a different rocket with different capabilities, but it was also a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-U

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Re:SpaceX receives FAA approval for return to flight [pdf] by NegativeLatency on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:40PM (#13340968)
Big planes generally have better failure modes as well, and humanity has more experience in producing/operating planes than rockets.
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