Not Building ...
While some people were "walking around Toulouse, Hamburg and Bremen ...", the paper being generated was possibly in response to communications with OCCAR, or even directly with individual members of the consortium. The pre-launch and actual launch phases did tend to generate lots of paper, which e-mail might have reduced, but inter-factory communications as well as with customers still have to take place, plus of course the usual before and after meetings stuff .
Meanwhile, the factories concerned (and others) were indeed very busy, and getting busier, building very successful single- and twin - aisle famiies, and even (depending on when the walk-abouts took place) designing the A380.
Thus, I trust that your comments were made with tongue in cheek ... The end-product seems to be well worth the wait.
PS. Care to expand on the "same old mistakes" bit ???
Last edited by Jig Peter; 23rd Nov 2010 at 16:16.
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