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As someone who has worked on the 787 and other large aircraft programs as an engineer and whose job it was to automate as much of the process as possible, I admire your line of thinking but I'm afraid reality is very different to what you have in mind.

If aircraft were machined out of a single block of material into an ideal structure and didn't have a million systems on board, designed by thousands of people trying to cooperate together best they can, you might have a chance.

GAs etc, are useful for small tasks here and there, but at the end of the day how the aircraft gets made and what goes wrong comes down to politics, people, communication, arcane processes and documents, money, time, regulations, rules of thumb etc etc etc



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