[PAR35]

“With 26 million hours of designing and testing”
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Not a chance in Hades this number is accurate.

You obviously aren't adding in the time that Larry Bell, Frank Whittle, Franz von Ohain, Geoffery de Haviland, and the Wright Brothers, among others, spent researching and developing predecessors. /s

[one guy in new jersey]

Is there no such thing anymore as performing as sanity check?