OVERBUILDING HAS BENEFITS
I'm glad Michael Gallagher (AW&ST Mar. 20, p. 6) is confident that Airbus A380 (and Boeing C-17) wing strength test results are "good enough." He thinks, and I hope he's right, that shortcomings in wing test results will be fixed easily. He derides (slightly) Donald Douglas for overbuilding the DC-3...
Subscription Required
This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.
Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.
Already an AWIN subscriber? Login
Did you know? Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Related Content
