Thursday, May 7, 2026

Fifty Shades of Grey Hair


What leaps out at you from this extract from venture capital UP Partners, apart from the fact robots are clamouring for minimum wage?

It's that the average age of aerospace engineers in the US is 50 years old.

In Vietnam, the average age of combat troops was Nnnnn... nineteen.

The average age on a US carrier is not much older (at around Ttttt... twenty-three).

I recall those putting men on the moon averaged twenty-five not counting members of R.E.M.

Fact is that's more like the status quo is in China now, now aviation is down-scaling.

For the other fact is... you cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

Ed. And he's been trying to balance a biscuit on his nose all afternoon.