They began work on it in 1941 and had first flight in 1946.
You couldn’t do that today. Maybe they had faster computers in the 1940s? Or maybe our military acquisition is FUBAR.
“Or maybe our military acquisition is FUBAR.”
Our MIC has become LCD.
Designed with slide rules.
Drawn on vellum with pencil.
Fabricated by high school grads running manually controlled machine tools.
(Just like the moon landing, LOL)
A slip-stick wizard is something to behold.
I still used one in the early 1970s, because I was too cheap to spring for the TI handheld calculator.
“You couldn’t do that today. Maybe they had faster computers in the 1940s? Or maybe our military acquisition is FUBAR.”
Why LIE to us? We’re right now in the process of developing our next bomber...ahhh, which will be deployed starting 2040.
“Or maybe our military acquisition is FUBAR.”
Baby needs new shoes. :)
I thought the same thing. the greatest fighter ever, the P51 Mustang was designed in April 1940 - its first test flight was 147 days later. It entered service in January 1942. We produced 15,000 of them, at a cost of $50K per copy (If you believe government inflation statistics, that's about $750K now)
Bids for the Hoover Dam were opened on January 10, 1931, and the completed dam was dedicated Sept. 30. 1935 - 4.5 years later. It cost $684 million in 2020 dollars.
If that were tried today - it would take 20 years and cost $20 billion, at minimum
We are not the same country we were.
“You couldn’t do that today. Maybe they had faster computers in the 1940s? Or maybe our military acquisition is FUBAR.”
Yes but today we would have a certain quote of LGTBQ people working on it so that would be better?
Right?
And the employees would all take seminars to feel ashamed of their white guilt