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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by MAGZine on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:58PM (#25282917)
As with software, restarting from scratch can introduce many, many bugs.

Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before. The older aircraft annealed into a state of safety and reliability from known-ness.

"fully redesigning," introduces a lot more risk.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:07PM (#25283561)
>Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before.

Which you use to build off of.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by MAGZine on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:37PM (#25285065)
in mission critical systems, build from scratches are rarely the case because any hiccups are disastrous.

It's why banks still run on mainframes despite trying (quite desperately) to get away from that.

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Re:Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with med... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:04PM (#25293018)
Building from scratch isn't really building from scratch is my point. You build off of what you have and revisit designs. They aren't reinventing the aircraft.
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