Ya can you crank out a B-24 every hour like the Willow Run Ford plant did during the 40’s?
We don't fight wars with B-24's anymore. I certainly wouldn't want to fly in anything made by Ford employees, especially a supersonic combat aircraft. I'll bet our military pilots wouldn't, either. Maybe you should actually take a look at what goes into a modern war plane. Ford can't even be relied upon to meet the tolerances required for a quality automobile.
The 1940s? Sixty years ago is your baseline? Yea, I could put together and manage an assembly line to build that obsolete plane without problem and without having to use any of the big three's facilities. I've done it with current military hardware.
Now if I was forced to use GMs facilities and current unionized workforce, I doubt I could keep the assembly line running with that volume over time because the odds that these union employees would sabtoge my assembly line is darn near certain. Could I set up in the south and build this simple plane, with ease. Setting up production lines is not that complicated.
I assume you are aware that Ford did not design the B-24, but was one of the contracted builders.
Despite a lot of promises of that level of production, Willow Run never quite made it. Their best month produced 428 planes, but by that time (late 1944) the USAAF had made the decision to phase out the B-24 in favor of the B-29 and B-32 and production was slowed.
Not really, but this isn’t the 40’s anymore..