Ideal Planes Or Engineering Turf Wars

Engineering teamwork in a nutshell! 🤣 This brilliant illustration shows what happens when aircraft design becomes a turf war. Each department obsesses over their specialty - the weights group adds a billion counterweights, aerodynamics makes it impossibly sleek, and don't get me started on what the armament folks did (is that a plane or a flying arsenal?!).

This is EXACTLY why engineers need to communicate! Without coordination, you get these Frankenstein creations instead of functional aircraft. The computer-aided design team's bare-bones rectangle is my personal favorite - "We've optimized this baby to perfection... on paper."

Every engineering student eventually learns this painful truth: the hardest part isn't the math or physics—it's getting humans to work together without everyone trying to be the hero of their own subsystem!