Originally Posted by
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GlosMikeP
You will be familiar with the Thieves' Neck, then, opposite Woodford Church. Reputedly, many a design problem has been solved in there.
Alas, the name has become the Davenport Arms, yet again. PC did take a short holiday, though.
Digressing to the AEW3, do you remember how the specification grew like Topsy after the airframes had been modified? How the computer power and cooling requirements exceded the size of the aeroplane?
Yes, further indicative proof of the lack of a well defined set of User and System requirements before design took hold. I'mnot sure it was ever designed; it just evolved! Fortunately at least the MRA4 didn't go that 'unbounded' way, so some lessons were learnt.
I recall having lunch in the pub on many occasions before an afternoon or evening flight - better than the Woodford diner! It was there that someone bought me a lager "I can't drink that you plonker! I'm flying later." To hear "Oh yes you can, you plonker - it's non alcoholic". My first introduction to beer with no %.
We digress.