To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Great aviation news! But...
Wouldn't it be easier to tool up and build new entire planes?
Let's see... wings only... I assume that includes integral fuel tanks... Ummmm OK...
$2billion divided by 242 = roughly...
$8,264,462.81 per "wing"!
Holy mackarel!
49 posted on
07/05/2007 3:46:48 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Publius6961
But those wings brought this man home...
Tell his mommy it wasn't worth it...
51 posted on
07/05/2007 3:50:06 PM PDT by
null and void
(A large gov't agency is more expensive than a smaller agency with the same mission, yet does less)
To: Publius6961
Wouldn't it be easier to tool up and build new entire planes?
No, because as long as you are building a new plane you would update things for the times. Which requires a lot of design effort. Even just copying takes a lot of time because Fairchild is not going to just hand you the blueprints. The task of designing a whole new airframe and testing it, even if it is suppose to be the same, is almost as hard as doing it from scratch. It does not seem like it should be, but it is.
79 posted on
07/06/2007 9:12:49 AM PDT by
TalonDJ
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