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Re:New Air Force One instruction manuals cost $84M by sandworm101 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:43PM (#22991795)
That's the odd thing. To provide a custom aircraft with custom parts you have to do all the analysis and testing. The person installing each part then needs the manual for that part to installing it. The creation of manuals is organic to the creation of a new aircraft. To see manuals as a separate, very expensive, line item is odd.

But we must remember a famous line from a bad movie: "You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?" Given what this aircraft is, what it does, I think it safe to assume a high degree of vagueness and miss-labeling in the non-classified version of the budget.

Re:New Air Force One instruction manuals cost $84M by Scramblejams on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:46PM (#22991803)
Couple of notes: You don't necessarily need the full maintenance manual to support initial installation. And the project may have been broken out differently to make the rest of the aircraft's sums seem more palatable -- bureaucratic budgetary games.