Originally Posted by
NEDude
Engineers have not forgotten how to build airplanes. It is just that today, it is the CEOs, accountants, and marketing people who are driving the design process from the top down. In the past it was the engineers saying what could be done and the upper management marketed and sold what the engineers could build.
See I cant agree with that. Commercial pressure has been there since day one, and sales/marketing have exerted pressure on the designers to build what they perceive the market desires from the get go.
Take the 777, in which the market had a seat at the table. It makes no sense for it to work any other way, it just requires engineers to be clear about what can or cant be done