Originally Posted by
Timbo
I keep forgetting that our "new" 777's are really over 20 year old designs, and Delta took delivery of their first 767 back in 1983, which makes that design well over 30 years old!
It sucks getting old!
I was an AA engineering student at UW in Seattle in the late 80's, Boeing's backyard. We got several presentations from Boeing alumni who were working on the program about how the 777 was the first airplane design proofed on computers and finite element analysis vs the old clay in the wind tunnel / material strength testing methods.
Also marked the end of overheads and the birth of Powerpoint!!!
