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The easy way to fund a new military plane is:

- remove one bolt and raise in the air

- slide out rev 30 "parts" from beneath bolt

- slide in rev 40 "upgrade parts" (fuselage, wings, engines, etc) underneath the bolt

- fly "upgraded plane" without a lot of pesky 'new plane" studies

Additionally, in parts of california, how to build a house:

- find existing house

- pick a wall

- remodel everything except for that wall

- reap tax benefits in your 99.9% new house.

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That's sometimes a good strategy, but breaks when you do too much at once. See boeing's recent fiasco where they did basically just that with parts and a fuselage that weren't really compatible. Metaphor extends: try to replace too much in part and something will break.

I would say the Boeing incident more so favors the counterpoint. Boeing tried to keep adding features to an airframe (code base) that could not support it.

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