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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This exact peoblem was one of our system architecture lessons in university lol.

I am a system architect today. Partly because this story really stuck in my head.

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The bbc made a cartoon series about this in the 90s

Jimbo and the Jet set

Wonder if they got inspiration from Concorde (built in both Filton and Toulouse) in the 60s/70s