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To: TobagoJack who wrote (174735)7/13/2021 6:37:48 PM
From: sense  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217789
 
building an airplane whilst flying in...

Googled it...

First humorous bit is, for some reason, the first thing on top of the page, before the real results... was they decided to present me with the translation into Italian: costruire un aeroplano mentre si vola

CSMonitor used it in an article from 2016... quoting a Google alum...in relation to an education project:

"Starting small has allowed AltSchool to experiment. Mr. Lashinsky quoted AltSchool chief executive Max Ventilla, a Google alum: “We’re kind of flying the plane while we’re building it.

Four years later... in 2020... still educators using it...

Education in the Time of the Virus; or, Flying the Plane While Building It

And, still in 2020. the origins discussed... as from Silicon Valley / Software types:

The Art of Building the Plane While You Fly It

And, from 2010, still educators, even if not happy with the usage, then, which may not have been unhappy with a reference to the nature of the educators jobs... rather than to educators careers and systems for being evaluated being built on the fly:

The dangers of building a plane in the air

That article links to a defunct Youtube vid... an EDS commercial... a copy of which is here, as: