Speed of design of airplanes.

From: (WaltBJ)
Date: 12/29/2003 10:54 PM Central Standard Time
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If you want a new airplane fast you find another Kelly Johnson and
give him the keys and the money and leave him alone.
(P80/F104/U2/A11/SR71) Nowadays there's too many cooks and too many
beancounters and too many can'tc--ts, as Hack would say. Where's
Kelly's DNA?
Walt BJ


I bet there are a few real Kelly Johnsons out there who can't get a fair start
the way he did. He got his start when there just wasn't as much red tape to
fight. I wonder how another one could get started when people actually think
Moller can make his project work and send money his way instead of backing the
real talent.

I would hate to think there's no current version of Kelly Johnson.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired