Stealth Pilot wrote:


your honour I sold the guy the plans, I provided him with the worked
design calculations showing how the design was arrived at. the
comments in the calculations show how the material sizes were arrived
at. he has made changes to the aircraft which are neither in the
original designs nor show any validating calculations so my conclusion
is that he just guessed at the changes and proceeded blindly.
I cannot see how I can be held responsible for the stupidly
incompetent actions of others.

sounds like a defense to me.

Stealth Pilot

Don't get me wrong, Stealth, I hear what you are saying.

But I think the kind of analysis you imply is beyond anybody
but Boeing (even Airbus seems to have problems getting it right).


Igor Sikorsky was quoted as saying:

There are good designers with good designs and
good designers with bad designs,

And there are bad designers with good designs
and bad designers with bad designs.

If all designers flew their own designs, there would
eventually be only good designers with good designs.


A little old Russian arrogance, but an interesting point.