This is admirable and pretty cool that they have the staff who came together to relish the challenge and developed the expertise to refurbish the mishmash of parts.
>All told, an aircraft like Caroline takes roughly 5,000 mechanic hours to become flight-worthy.
For a site like HN, the above quote sounds so improbable when applied to software.
Perhaps. It's the equivalent of a project that takes a 5-developer team 6 months, full-time, to complete. When you put it that way, it's not so out-of-bounds ...
>All told, an aircraft like Caroline takes roughly 5,000 mechanic hours to become flight-worthy.
For a site like HN, the above quote sounds so improbable when applied to software.