Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
How much time did you spend on design and flight test (pre production) of a helicopter?
I know a few people who have done both.
None, but I've seen the consequence. I'm sure that in the good old days of flying by steam, it was feasible for one chap to grasp the whole machine but these days where 50% of the design and behaviour is in electronics and software it is not really. Most folk are either good at whirly round bits, or good at dancing electrons, but not both. Well that's my experience of OEMs anyway.