Neil;
If you have read any books about modern automotive design (and
I'm sure you have) you know that that is also the way "new"
cars are born. The book "All Corvettes Are Red" is basically
how all the committees argued among themselves and with
Corporate. The result was a new Corvette that was 1/2 good.
Ed
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:19:48 -0600
>From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
>Subject: RE: Cheap Aero Reads
>To: "'ardunbill@webtv.net'" <ardunbill@webtv.net>,
land-speed@autox.team.net
>
>Bill;
>
>Just a few details:
>
>Kelly Johnson was the head of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" for
years and
>years; he designed the P-38, P-80, U-2, SR-71, etc, etc, etc.
Truly an
>awesome talent.
>
>Kurt Tank designed the Focke-Wulf FW-190, Ta-172, etc. He was
another
>outstanding engineer.
>
>These days, those heroic single-individual efforts seems to be
>lost....everything is designed by committees.
>
>Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ardunbill@webtv.net [mailto:ardunbill@webtv.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:05 PM
>To: Albaugh, Neil; land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Cheap Aero Reads
>
>
>Neil, why don't you tell us about them? I think Kelly
Johnson designed
>the P-38, didn't he? My nomination for "greatest" would have
to be
>Orville and Wilbur Wright, since they were almost entirely
self-taught.
>But there were many "greats".
>Bill
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