Quote from: oldAtlas_Eguy on 10/01/2017 09:03 pmThe hardest asset to acquire is experience personnel. The resource Musk was talking about is the F9 production line personnel not tooling, money or even floor space.By swapping some experienced personnel from the F9 line onto a limited BFR production by replacing them on the F9 line with new hires, spaceX will be able to get the BFR line started rolling slowly. Once the BFR line needs to ramp up which should immediately follow a successful BFR demo flight The F9 line will ramp down and the BFR line will ramp up as more and more personnel transition. In order to do this both lines have to be fairly close (can be separate buildings but in same city) because relocation costs of a few thousand employees is very expensive.I would suggest that we already have almost all the R+D people transitioned to BFR. They should have finished the block 5. There will be some left for dragon 2...
The hardest asset to acquire is experience personnel. The resource Musk was talking about is the F9 production line personnel not tooling, money or even floor space.By swapping some experienced personnel from the F9 line onto a limited BFR production by replacing them on the F9 line with new hires, spaceX will be able to get the BFR line started rolling slowly. Once the BFR line needs to ramp up which should immediately follow a successful BFR demo flight The F9 line will ramp down and the BFR line will ramp up as more and more personnel transition. In order to do this both lines have to be fairly close (can be separate buildings but in same city) because relocation costs of a few thousand employees is very expensive.
Over on reddit a poster who talked with a SpaceX recruiter reports that they were told 10% of engineers at SpaceX are now working on BFR and that number will increase as Block V development becomes complete. 10% of engineers is much higher than I expected and this point.
Quote from: rockets4life97 on 10/13/2017 02:58 amOver on reddit a poster who talked with a SpaceX recruiter reports that they were told 10% of engineers at SpaceX are now working on BFR and that number will increase as Block V development becomes complete. 10% of engineers is much higher than I expected and this point.Well, Musk did say he wanted development of BFR to start soon - didn't he say 6 months?So I guess this would be the pre-development work going on.
Wasn't it construction start in 6 months? Which would imply a LOT of development is already in place, especially since they have already ordered tooling.
