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Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Across both teams, talented, dedicated, and passionate scientists, engineers, and production artisans have collaborated to develop and produce this aircraft,” said John Clark, vice president and general manager at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
What the hell is a production artisan?
detalferous@lemm.ee 10 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Lol, people with no sense of humor downvoting you.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Someone with the skills and knowledge to “manually” produce some of the many one-off parts that went into this prototype.
The scientists and engineers may know what kind of part is needed, but it takes a different skillset to produce it.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So like the welders for the Russian rocket engines that were produced 50 years ago? Seems those welds are something we aren’t sure how they did it.