The United States Air Force is not satisfied with how jets, satellites, and missiles are designed. It now wants to change how new aircraft and weapons are made.
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The process allows them to test and modify the aircraft's systems with various configurations throughout its design. Roper recognized that the new digital design process removed the traditional way of creating an aircraft.
He added that digital thread allows automated checks to happen in the background while the product is being modified. On the other hand, manually designing an aircraft enables the designers to see small differences in parts of an airplane or jet, preventing future accidents since they could quickly fix it.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
