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A Boeing engineering team takes an idea born out of the darkest days of World War II and creates a whole new aircraft during a weekend cram session in a Dayton, Ohio, hotel room.
Things were a lot different then. The B-52 had very rudimentary computer systems in the beginning, and was very basic. There wasn't a need for years of software development, or any of the development that modern aircraft require.
Only after the contractor gets approval for a couple million dollars worth of change orders.
then they might actually make a model or two
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Sammamishman
They completely changed the nose section. They originally tried the pilots sitting one behind the other, and I think at one point they even had a movable canopy. They quickly found it didn't work well and redesigned it.