... waning design skills ?

[TsrJoe]

Just the sort of topic im sure discussed in bars across the western world ... ref. Flight International, 4 November 2003

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

If you don't have continuity of design teams, lots of precious knowledge is lost. That's why you always immediately start designing the next generation. The slow pace of development in the 1990s to today makes retaining that institutional knowledge increasingly hard.