Originally posted by Harlequin
Are airliner development schedules a work of pure fiction ?
In a word, yes.......
But it's not just airliner development. This pervades every aspect of large projects.
Every major development humans undertake seem to run WAY over the proposed budget, and they all seem to run into one delay after another as the cost
over runs continue to build.
A few examples would be almost any space mission like the Shuttles and the International Space Station. Most every large dam, bridge, tunnel, highway,
and the Large Hadron Collider. Even large buildings and also ships suffer from the lowest bidder underestimating their abilities and the real costs
involved in completing a large project.
It's kind of sad that humans don't have a grasp of reality when it comes to starting a project. We just have stars in our eyes and hope in our
hearts when we set out on such a large endeavor.
[edit on 14/5/2008 by anxietydisorder]
- but still another delay so i must ask (as it says on flight
global) 
