Originally Posted by
WingNut60
But not as expensive as delayed certification.
Someone crunched the numbers.
No argument - just pointing out that it's not cheap to base flight testing away from Seattle.
We took a flight test 747-8F to Iqaluit (upper Northeast part of Canada) for a couple days to do very cold weather engine start testing (we needed -30C or below). In order to base a flight test aircraft there for just a day or two took a team of about 50 people.