- The submarine Spanish S-80, including within the ‘Great Failures of Engineering’
Although the latest news suggests that production submarine S-80 is more or less channeled, the project has been widely criticized and questioned in recent years.
news on the overruns that accumulates , delay within the deadlines set and serious design problems , which put initial tightrope the project- have spread outside the Spanish borders
An example of this is the program of British television. ‘ Incredible Engineering Blunders : Fixed’ (which in Spain has been translated as ‘Great failures of Engineering’). A program in aerospace engineer and journalist Justin Cunningham , which worked as a designer of space-shuttle is dedicated to travel the world looking for the biggest ‘bungling’ of engineering.
This space, which airs on channel Discovery channel (also in its Spanish subsidiary) has included in its ranking of ‘transport errors’ -in the 3- position the submarine S-80.
the project, says Cunningham, cost “3,000 billion, and had to torpedo when they realized that was too heavy floating . As he built, engineers had miscalculated and reached almost 70 tons. The solution was to extend the submarine, with a cost of eight million dollars for each extra meter. Reports say that the mistake was that the engineers placed the decimal point in the wrong place. “
The S-80 shares ranking with Airport Island San Martin , where planes land passing a few meters on a tourist beach, a British roundabout formed by five small roundabouts inside, a static treadmill that lets you move around the outside and trains acquired by France to renew the fleet of TGV, which forced them to do reforms in all seasons galas: the government sent to manufacturer incorrect measurements and wagons not entered the tracks.
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