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Originally Posted by highsea
Well, "milions of subsystems" is a pretty large exaggeration...millions of parts, okay.
The first 747 rolled out only 3 years from the time the first contract was signed (and still flies today). During that time, the project manager took only one day off (one Christmas Eve).
It was less than 5 years from initial concept to FAA certification.
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not the date of contract signing, i want to know the date when the concept was tought that it was feasible to build one.
it could have been that most of the developement work for the 747 could have had been completed before the signing of the contract.
regarding the number of subsystems, may be i exagerated a bit more, but i am pretty sure that the present day A380 carries atleast 10 times more electronic subsystems than the one that was carried by the initial 747's