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Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by hef19898 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:39PM (#26255512)
Back the day an engineer cold be there at the start of program, see the maiden flight and even go on to see a second program. Today, the same engineer probalby enters years after the concept phase and retires before the first prototype takes of.
Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:04PM (#26257984)
A friend of mine working on a space telescope had to fix a mistake that someone had made on a diagram. When she tried to figure out who made the oopsie, turns out he had worked on the project more than a decade ago and retired while she was in middle school