UTfball68
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- Joined
- Jul 18, 2008
- Location
- Granite Quarry
This. The "cost" of manufacturing a jet is kind of negligible compared to everything involved in getting to the point of making the first one. Our R&D and subsequent testing & QA process is out of control.
Across my time at BE Aerospace, Precision Castparts and Nucor, my ITAR contracts, were obscene. I’d bet I spent $1000 on R&D work for every $1 of contract production. And the same work could have been done for $50:$1.