US has something to learn from Europeans in austere development
It may well startle one of the 439 Lockheed engineers, say, who worked on the P3A Orion modification of the Electra, to learn that in […]
History
B-52 Development and Defense Lessons from Armen Alchian
Mandeles argues convincingly that recognizing the inevitability of error may be the single most important factor in the design of effective organizations and procedures to […]
Technical prestige as an end in itself for successful firms
This commercial competition [of aviation fuels] was a result of the profit motive, but was far from profitable, as is often the case in aviation, […]
British and American styles in engine development, pre-WWII
The American system of development at private risk produced a series of engines which at the outbreak of war in 1939 were roughly equal in […]
Staats testimony on prototyping and parallel undocumented development
Those in favor of prototyping argue that the military at, times overstate the urgency of programs; urgency in weapons development, they assert, is one of […]
Remember the days when Congress didn’t earmark defense projects?
His business provided jobs in Dorsey’s district, and jobs were scarce. Pitcairn was delighted when Dorsey introduced a bill to provide $2 million to the […]