Ben Rich on Efficiency and Optimization

About the development of the air-inlet control system for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird:

Eighty percent efficiency would get the job done, so why strain resources and bust deadlines to achieve that extra 20 percent, which would cost as much as 50 percent more in overtime and delays and have little real impact on the overall performance of the aircraft itself?

− Ben Rich, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed.

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