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Albert Shapero

The role of analysis in US and French airframing

March 21, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In Europe, analysis plays a radically different role in aerospace development. A French project team for example, will provide its customer with a dossier calcul, […]

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French to U.S. on weapons development: How do you work with so many people?!?

January 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Mr. Shapero: They [the French] make good aircraft, and they have also had disasters. But they do it much more cheaply than we do. Spending […]

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Aerospace work isn’t too big and complex for new entrants

April 27, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

A significant gap has developed between DoD’s view of industry as an always-ready supplier of military capabilities and how industry actually makes decisions on what […]

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Americans in love with analysis

January 4, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

You Americans are mad. You analyze and analyze where we have one-man who makes a decision, and the difference is 5 percent in the resulting answers.

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