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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by foldr on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:46PM (#15934946)
If the 6 million parts figure is correct, it's obvious that it is not possible to inspect every part of a 747. Suppose we allow 1 minute per part inspection. Then that's still about 11 years of inspection time (without taking any breaks!)
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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by dozzie on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:40PM (#15935416)
> that's still about 11 years of inspection time

11 person-years. You don't need the same person to conduct all the inspection.

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Re:German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition by foldr on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:45PM (#15935467)
Sure, but you'd need thousands of people to get it down to anything reasonable, even with the highly optimistic 1 minute per part inspection estimate.

I'm open to being corrected on this, but no-one has yet posted any evidence that there is any extant procedure for inspecting every part of a 747.

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