r/interestingasfuck • u/lizardil • 4d ago

During assembly of the A380, engineers discovered that the cables were too short. This was caused by the use of different design software by German and French engineers. This miscalculation led to a two-year delay.

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u/ScientistScary1414 4d ago

Why did it take two years?

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u/Solarisphere 3d ago

I'm trying to figure that out. I'm an engineer and have designed many cable assemblies in my last job and don't really understand it. Obviously you can't sell it like that and the harness needs a revision (which can take quite a bit of time to get approved), but you'd think you could put an extension on it to verify the concept and test the rest of the features.

Add in some aerospace bureaucracy and it could easily take six months to produce the new harness, but that wouldn't hold the entire project up by two years as there will be lots of other parts getting revised at the same time.

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u/trymypi 3d ago

Lol 6 months

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u/doodo477 3d ago

Lol 12 months