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I worry that great generations of engineers who worked on countless projects in the 1950s-1980s timeframe, and amassed invaluable experience by actually designing, building, and testing scores of aircraft and spacecraft cannot be replaced. What does an engineer fresh out of college have to look forward to? At Lockheed, for example, he might spend his or her entire career supporting just one type, like F-35 or the next model of Hercules.Sure, we might be getting better at doing FEA and pretty pictures, but there is little substitute for actually doing things.If you want to build the next Blackbird, it sure is nice to have around a guy who built them. If we wait fifty, sixty years between iterations, you are guaranteed not to have that resource.
I worry that great generations of engineers who worked on countless projects in the 1950s-1980s timeframe, and amassed invaluable experience by actually designing, building, and testing scores of aircraft and spacecraft cannot be replaced. What does an engineer fresh out of college have to look forward to? At Lockheed, for example, he might spend his or her entire career supporting just one type, like F-35 or the next model of Hercules.
Sure, we might be getting better at doing FEA and pretty pictures, but there is little substitute for actually doing things.
If you want to build the next Blackbird, it sure is nice to have around a guy who built them. If we wait fifty, sixty years between iterations, you are guaranteed not to have that resource.
