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dlcarriertoday at 3:23 AM0 repliesview on HN

From an engineering perspective, it's a solved task. Designing an airplane is on par with designing a suspension bridge.

From a regulatory perspective, the layers of bureaucracy needed to get approval to build a bridge has nothing on starting up an airline manufacturing company. Once you have a company with a history of approval, you can practically do what you want, but getting to that point is nearly impossible.