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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by babesh on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:08PM (#26417728)
1993?

Friction stir welding was invented in 1991. Full flow staged combustion was tried out in the 1960s. GPS was available 1993. Not sure how much computing power it needs.

SpaceX was founded in 2002.

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Re:Emirates’ Tim Clark says Boeing ‘not getting it’ on 737 M... by hinkley on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:41PM (#26418102)
Looks like there may have been an inflection point for CAD and CNC hardware around 1990 as well that might have informed the sort of iterative process that his team likes to use.
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