Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!msb 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 Lines: 10 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.