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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.aviation,net.politics
Subject: Military specifications
Message-ID: <746@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:05:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.746
Posted: Fri Aug  9 16:05:33 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:58:07 EDT
Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: 

30 years ago, when the Air Force needed a large cargo plane, it
put out a list of specifications that took up less than 8 pages.
Lockheed responded with a proposal 3/4" thick, which resulted in
a huge plane named the Hercules.  In 1980, when the Air Force needed
a new cargo plane, it issued specifications that took up 2,750 pages.
Lockheed's proposal alone weighed 6,600 pounds.  To deliver it, the
company used one of the old Hercules cargo planes.

			-- John Tierney, in the current Science 85
Posted by Mark Brader.