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Nimrod: endless development, never delivering
Aerospace and Defence programmes are formidable undertakings full of complex developments, new technologies, changing requirements that make them difficult to manage and keep in control. This is not...
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After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes
When I was writing in the previous post about Alberto Dubois idea of evolution being exponential I had in mind the book “Augustine’s Laws”, to which I have referred many times in this blog. Today, I...
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The end of private property
Last Saturday, while reading the last issue of The Economist at home, I found the following table with the evolution of government spending for some countries: Government spending as % of GDP, source:...
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Augustine’s Laws and the future long-range bomber
The US Air Force is moving ahead with its plan to develop a new long-range bomber aircraft to be operational by the mid of next decade. The program is not yet launched, but within this year it is...
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“Lessons from a Career of Trying to Defy the Law (of Gravity)”, lecture by...
Norman Augustine is an aeronautical engineer whom I have referred to often in this blog mainly due to his book “Augustine’s Laws” of which I wrote a review (find it here). He started working at Douglas...
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