Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Shorts/Bombardier made many mistakes with the Tucano, the most obvious one was getting rid of everyone who had completed puberty and letting all the local graduates design it unsupervised. I was 24 when I was on that project and I was the oldest guy in many of the meetings.
With Lear 45 they hired a lot of old boys to act as engineering "Dad", each team had a "Dad" whose job was to ask difficult and sometimes misleading questions in order to make sure they had considered all angles of a problem.
It worked.
I haven't been to Shorts for a few years now but if this kind of ethos remains in any way then they deserve to build an aircraft and I wish them luck.