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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by fsloth on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:15AM (#11318084)
Actually the shape of the f-117 came out of computations based on publicly published work. A Skunk works engineer was skimming through obscure russian math papers when he came across it by chance. 'Skunk Works' by Ben Rich
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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA by graycat on Saturday March 19, 2016 @10:55AM (#11318758)
IIRC such a thing. But for the B-1, F-22, F-35, no doubt more work was needed, that is, more ideas.
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