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Re:Boeing's Manufacturing Mess "Has Been Going on for Years" by 082349872349872 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:00PM (#38993887)
See also early (1960s) CAD/CAM saving a Boeing project in https://inria.hal.science/hal-01526813/document

> “I just can’t get the wing data to match the body data, and time is no longer on my side.” “Show us your wing data. Hey where did you get this stuff?” “From the body project.” “But they’ve given you old data; you’ve been trying to fit an old wing onto a new body.” (The best time to make a design change is before you’ve actually built the thing!) An hour later life was restored and the 727 became a single numerical entity.

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