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I remember watching a youtube video of some rich guy showing off his private jet and he was complaining about how he couldn't put anything custom inside it because if you want a solid gold and velour arm chair you have to build 2 identical ones and burn the first to the ground to see how long it survives so it's just too expensive.
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Its quite astounding the safety procedures that go into planes. A former colleague used to burn test things for Airbus (and drop test military stuff) which meant analysing the ignition speed, heat, burn-speed and gases from the fire for lots of stuff in planes; not just seats etc but in-flight electronics, staff uniforms, etc. Between that and drop tests his job was basically to set fire to stuff and push stuff from various heights onto the ground. At 21 just having started a boring office job it sounded like a dream.