Sanguine?

Glenn.Morton@ORYX.COM
Thu 08 Jun 1995 08:26 CT

Bill Hamilton writes:
"I'm not as sanguine as Glenn is about the ability of airframe companies to
use computer simulation to get aircraft designs right, because I remember the
problems Convair had getting the 990 design right."

If I sounded sanguine about that let me correct it. It scares the bejebbers
outta me. But the fact that models matched the 880 very well shows that
modeling can be accurate. I was using airframe examples to show that models
can be accurate in the face of charges that no modeling is accurate. I fully
concur that every model must be evaluated against reality and the range of
conditions modeled.Just because a model can be accurate does not assure a
given model IS accurate.

glenn