Maybe, but Lufthansa has publicly stated their commitment to the 747 for as long as practical.
I found this FAA directive which (if I’m reading it right) describes the type certification process for Military Commercial Derivative Aircraft.
Good find! I hadn’t thought to look for such a thing. Definitely keeping note of it to peruse further.
Essentially, the majority of the work will be following the civil approval process on such an aircraft.
wasn’t that how the whole Boing 373max debacle started? … they tried to sidestep a lot of New certificaciones by “keeping the name” … eventhough the flight controles and dynamics were drastically different?
One of those “the remedy was more expensive than the sickness” - moments
I shudder at the thought of how govt agencias Will work in the future, now that they are streamlined by Trusk.
My understanding, by the time the F-22 was in production.
All the electronics were obsolete.
It was one reasons so few were built, most of subcontractors. Could not, or would build the old stuff.
It would not surprise me. My wife works for a microchip manufacturer, and one of her complaints is that they have entire lines set up (generally in “maintained rest” state) to produce certain chips to exacting but obsolete standards for legacy military equipment. Although who know if they’ll retain them as-is or enough skilled staff for them in the upcoming layoffs.
makes you wonder: why dont they produce twice/3times the amount predicted for the contract period and call it a day?
(I am pretty sure, i am NOT the first person with this idea, and there is prob. a reason for NOT doing that)?
In this day and age of just-in-time production, it’s considered a poor deal. One, you have the sunk costs of the materials and labor to make the chips, possibly with years / decades before they’ll need it again. Second, and related to the prior, is then you have to pay to store the finished products, complete with allowances for damages happening while stored. Of course, that’s from the production side.
From the government side, if you ordered a ton ahead of time you have to justify the costs (despite military overruns) and that’s easier to do on some gee-golly-wiz new SciFi concept (Looking at various Boeing Aerospace boondoggles! -Bonus points for working in the OP again!-) but harder on some 20-30 year old missile. And you still have to store it.
Kinda like how every year General Mills has to make more Frankenberry and Count Chocula.
They don’t have to; they do it because they know that there’ll be a large demand, and they’ll make good money on it. And those cereals are likely not radically different, in manufacturing process or ingredients, than General Mills’ everyday cereal lineup, and are undoubtedly not made on separate, dedicated lines.
I didn’t say it was exactly the same.