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My vote goes for the F7U Cutlass. The man who was behind the F4U Corsair, Rex Beisel, was in charge of this. The Cutlass was WAY ahead of its time for so many reasons.This plane was in response to an order by the U.S. Navy in 1945 and first flew in 1948. The plane went through deck-trials aboard USA Midway circa 1949–50. My close friend's grandfather served aboard her during the trials and said that when the plane first arrived the crew thought it was a spaceship. It proved to be entirely less. The engines were under-powered and, devastatingly, unreliable. The whole plan-form of the aircraft was too advanced for the time, as well. The Cutlass was do-able in the age of “fly-by-wire" controls but hydraulic-powered controls just didn't cut it. The aircraft was considered a deathtrap by its pilots and for good reason…it killed 4 test pilots and 21 naval aviators.That didn't prevent this aircraft from seeing limited deployment, however. The F7U was actually deployed at squadron level strength before the plug was pulled on the project.Wonderful looking plane. Just wasn’t the right time.

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I moved back from a Manager role to a Technical role in an Indian IT company.If the question is why do Indian IT employees intend to progress/grow as managers instead of technical roles, below is not the answer. This answer is why managers move away from technical skills.As a manager, you’re so busy with the operations and project management that you hardly get time to use, polish and renew your technical skills.Most of the middle managers in the Indian IT do not sit idle or browse on trading portals, do chatting on mobiles as most of the freshers/developers perceive. Of course, there’d be some lazy foxes as would be in other levels.As a manager leading a 45 member team, half of my day would go in daily Operations -(Budgeting, Reporting, Staffing, Billing & Invoicing, Approvals, writing/editing SoWs, CRs, etc. A quarter of the day would go in Project Management - Metrics, Quality reports (Milestones, Productivity, CoQ, etc.), Requests creation/management, Task allocation & tracking, Project Plan (MPP/Internal tools, Estimates), Escalations, Status Reports, Client Communication, Procurement of space & hardware, etc. Another quarter of the day would go in People Management like Approvals for leaves, on-duty, Performance Appraisals, Hearing to team’s aspirations, Conflict resolution,On-boarding, Separations, Interviewing potential replacements, etc.In addition, there would be ad-hoc works like RFPs (Proposals), Client Visits, ODC Management, BCP/BCMS (Business Continuity), TownHall preparations, Interviews on weekends…On an average of 30 minutes for each person, it took me 20 hours or 3 full days to just have an Appraisal conversation with each of my team. Later, we had to spend time in filling the forms in the system, meetings with the higher managers on determining and begging/bargaining for good ratings for the team.Now, you tell where’s the time for the managers to be upto date with the latest trends.