With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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As an emergency precaution, the Federal Aviation Administration has now said that carriers operating 737s with the same lap-joint design along the roof should inspect the planes after no more than 30, 000 cycles.
Ostensibly, the idea is to design a system that can expand as more planes use it.
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.
Meanwhile, CFM International, a joint venture between GE and SNECMA which provides engines for more than 60% of Boeing's and Airbus's planes, is promoting a rival design called Leap-X.
Putting different size features on different chip planes raises questions as to whether such a design can reap all the cost benefits of a fully 14nm part.
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Its backers, who include Tom Clancy, a rich novelist, are betting that its radical design will prove superior to dreary old rockets and space-planes.
Having refined and validated its design, it began accepting letters of intent for its first 40 planes in the last few weeks of 2007.
Boeing and Airbus increasingly rely on global supply chains and risk-sharing partners, some of which are involved from the design stage to produce not just components, but entire sections of planes.
After Monday's fire, the big question for Boeing will be whether the issue is a manufacturing defect, which can be fixed relatively cheaply, or a design flaw, which might require expensive redesign and rework on existing planes, said Citi analyst Jason Gursky.
The same design pattern in Famo.us could treat those side menus as a set of planes that could be manipulated in interesting ways and reduce the need for scrolling.
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