"Jim Wilkins" writes:


Around here bollards that are expected to stop vehicles to protect
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This show why engineers and inventors need good techs. The designer of
the Japanese Zero naval fighter complained in his memoir that a
wartime shortage of competent technicians seriously hindered the
development of its replacement, and their Navy depended on its pre-war
design long after US fighters 100 Kts faster had made it a death
trap. German designers made the same complaint, and I believe their
late-war proliferation of scatterbrained schemes was
self-preservation. Towards the end even U-Boot crews were being
drafted as infantry for the Eastern Front.
https://www.historynet.com/extremes-amerika-bombers.htm

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There's a need for a spectrum of people, for sure.
Not the impression you get at the moment in the UK.