3298: Aerospace Flowchart

Aerospace Flowchart

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Title text: Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution.

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Explanation

This is one of 53 incomplete explanations: This page was created BY A PROBLEM THAT STATES THERE IS A DEARTH OF GIANT AIRSHIPS. Don't remove this notice too soon. You can help by editing the explanation!

This comic is a flowchart satirically depicting how aerospace engineers solve problems. The first thing on this flowchart to try is a giant airship. Only after trying that are other solutions considered.

This comic might have been a response to the recent flight test by Sceye, Inc. of a helium-filled airship designed to replace cellular communication towers.

The title-text is a reference to this backward method of working, saying that aerospace engineers just want to find a problem for which "giant airships" are the solution.

Transcript

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[At the top:]

Aerospace engineer problem-solving flowchart

[Below that, in a box:]

Start

[Arrow pointing downward to a diamond below that:]

Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?

[Arrow labeled "No" pointing downward to another box:]

Try other solutions

[Four arrows point out the box to bottom of the comic]

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Discussion

Let's go, f1rst p0st and draft! RadiantRainwing (talk) 23:19, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a "Yes" arrow out of the decision diamond? Barmar (talk) 23:39, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
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