In a message dated 2/3/2007 8:18:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jrherrera90@hotmail.com writes:
I used to teach at the facility where they restore the aircraft for the
National Air & Space Museum. The Restoration Specialists said that, after a
while, they got a feel for different nations' design philosophies. One
described British aircraft design this way:
"Why use four rivets when seven will do just fine?
John
I have a copy of the foreward to a Mechanical Design handbook. The author
says that prior to WWI, Germany forced Prussian engineers to design hardware
for their war department but the mech designers decided to sabotage it. They
designed every single part as complicated and as expensive as they could. But
the Germans loved it, and held their work up as examples of good design -and
its been that way ever since he says.
Best, Mike Moore
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