British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left on during launch

Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by colechristensen on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:33PM (#29337316)

When the JSF program started, the only FAANG that existed yet was Apple.

Only a small proportion of the program involves software, and at that they were, for example, designing VR/AR helmets as a feature. What people are talking about being an entire industry was tacked on as a minor feature.

Imagine designing hardware where your single product is developed as computer tech advanced from 1993 to 2006 (program inception to first production flight, more or less)

There was an estimate that the program employed a quarter of a million people, because of how spread out contracts like this are it's hard to really come up with a comparison.

JSF is on a similar level of complexity of the entirety of Google, and has been in development about five years longer.

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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by simonh on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:46AM (#29339809)

>the only FAANG that existed yet was Apple.

Which back then was seriously on the ropes, with SJ coming back to turn it around. Nobody would have listed Apple as an industry leading company. How times change.

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