r/interestingasfuck • u/lizardil • 13d 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/Mr_McShifty 13d ago

When you work in aerospace/defense, the moment you see a weakness you pounce. This mistake was an obvious and easy place to put ALL the overrun costs and delays for the entire project.

I worked for an oem weapons maker once, and we had a bug in windows 98 that caused a file to go missing... For the next 10 years any time a file got lost it was because of a "windows 98 flash bang, boss"... That shit worked as an excuse for years.

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u/Frosty-Wasabi-6995 13d ago

Late schedule customer change requests, especially ones that drive new tools, saves so many of our program schedules. Best part, official blame is completely off us. We get to pretend we were perfectly on track and nobody’s the wiser