Listening to: Dreams - The Game

Military vehicles are so rich in design and usability case studies, flicking thru
my ‘latest’ (as in not living in the US I get the hard copy AFTER all the articles
have been posted online) I found another… a fascinating
article on the V-22 Osprey.

The Osprey had reached a crisis. Several engineers transferred to
other aircraft projects. The program manager left. The chief engineer was promoted
off the project. A new regime at the Pentagon was demanding that the plane get fixed
in two years or get canceled. The entire culture of Osprey-making had to be fixed,
and a series of significant technological problems had to be solved - fast.

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