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[dozzie]

> that's still about 11 years of inspection time

11 person-years. You don't need the same person to conduct all the inspection.

[foldr → dozzie]

Sure, but you'd need thousands of people to get it down to anything reasonable, even with the highly optimistic 1 minute per part inspection estimate.

I'm open to being corrected on this, but no-one has yet posted any evidence that there is any extant procedure for inspecting every part of a 747.