Boeing seeking to reduce scope, duration of physical tests for new aircraft
&gt; <i>expanding the use of digital analysis over costlier physical testing</i><p>Oh no.<p>&gt; <i>For example, when vibrating a fuselage on an enormous platform to expose weaknesses - known as fatigue testing - the vast majority of the time the tool itself breaks instead of the airframe, according to a person with knowledge of past tests. Such work is costly and has reliably confirmed engineers’ expectations, he added.</i><p>Is this just hubris, or is this real? That&#x27;s a lot of confidence to place in a software model.