TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
At least they didn't also mix inches and centimeters... or did they?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602300.html
Workers at the Airbus plant here spent last summer inside the massive three-story fuselage of the A380, the world's largest passenger plane, wrangling with 310 miles of wire and a baffling problem: Engineers in Germany had designed their part of the electrical system using two-dimensional diagrams, while engineers in France had done their share in 3-D.
"I'm sure books will be written about why, for five years, we were letting 6,000 engineers do the project in 3-D in France and 2-D in Germany, without realizing the risk that they wouldn't mesh, and then trying to fix the problem by hand," Leahy said in an interview. The engineers eventually went back to the drawing board; in October, Airbus announced a third delay for the A380, this time for a year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/26/AR2007042602300.html
Workers at the Airbus plant here spent last summer inside the massive three-story fuselage of the A380, the world's largest passenger plane, wrangling with 310 miles of wire and a baffling problem: Engineers in Germany had designed their part of the electrical system using two-dimensional diagrams, while engineers in France had done their share in 3-D.
"I'm sure books will be written about why, for five years, we were letting 6,000 engineers do the project in 3-D in France and 2-D in Germany, without realizing the risk that they wouldn't mesh, and then trying to fix the problem by hand," Leahy said in an interview. The engineers eventually went back to the drawing board; in October, Airbus announced a third delay for the A380, this time for a year.
