Now Airbus is looking beyond aircraft design to how the aircraft is operated both on the ground and in the air.
There is no question in my mind that the system of aircraft design, certification and approval for operation is safe.
Despite having a masters degree in aircraft design and being a DIY and robotics enthusiast, even Wang found available robotics kits difficult to follow.
Russian aircraft design is excellent, but engine reliability is less so.
Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.
The F-35 contract Lockheed beat out Boeing ( BA) for almost a decade ago is so huge because the government opted to make just one basic aircraft design serve all branches.
Apart from its uniqueness, Concorde is seen as a pace-setter because all other attempts to design such aircraft have relied on its delta wing design.
On Friday, US aircraft regulators approved a revamped battery design for the aircraft, paving the way for the fleet to return to the skies.
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The flight simulator, for instance, cannot simply download the virtual aircraft from the design computers.
In addition to the continuing review of the aircraft's design, manufacture and assembly, the agency also will validate that 787 batteries and the battery system on the aircraft are in compliance with the special condition the agency issued as part of the aircraft's certification.
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British Aerospace is one company making some headway towards this with the method it uses to design fighter aircraft.
Hughes Aircraft, the aeroplane design business that grew out of his family company, expanded quickly after the second world war into military electronics.
At that time, the issue was the so-called FSX, an advanced fighter aircraft Japan planned to design and develop with the assistance of the American manufacturer of the F-16, General Dynamics.
Only last week, for example, Boeing announced that it would make a new regional jet a move that seems designed to undermine Airbus's attempts to design an aircraft for the same market.
"We're really trying to support the people who design and test aircraft, " Hammond said.
That, however, remains a distant prospect while the design of the aircraft keeps changing.
Computers, which can cope with simple rule-based jobs, find it far harder to diagnose a sick patient or design a new aircraft.
The FAA gave Boeing the go-ahead to replace the old battery systems, which developed fires on two aircraft, with a new design last week.
While the efficiency savings this process brings are obvious, Tarmac also believes that dismantling old planes will allow engineers to better design more efficient aircraft in the future.
Airbus has since taken the gospel of centralization to heart, consolidating decision-making and design for its newest aircraft, the A350.
"This decision does not diminish our ability to design and manufacture Hawk aircraft at the Brough site, " said Mr Parkinson.
Over the years the company has been called upon to design bespoke interiors for aircraft including the BBJs and CJs, and widebody aircraft including the Lockheed L1011 Tristar, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400.
But because the NRC defines an aircraft attack as a beyond-design-basis event, it did not require that this equipment meet high quality and reliability standards, or be hardened to withstand other potential threats, such as natural disasters.
Cessna Aircraft used Dassault's software to design a new entry-level business jet, the Citation Mustang.
The idea was to build scores of new cutters, small boats, manned and unmanned aircraft, all with complementary electronics and design features that worked in unison.
It is hoped that the firm's links with the French company Thales will result in significant design contracts for two new aircraft carriers for the Ministry of Defence.
If the U.S. public had known of the crashes, lower-than-expected stealthiness and other design problems that afflicted this aircraft early on, Congress might well have prematurely terminated its production.
Boeing has continued to upgrade its 747 in response to the Airbus challenge and with a slight twist brought out its smaller 787 Dreamliner aircraft with an increased fuel-saving design.
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