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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by jandrese on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:56AM (#16801804)
What's the point of X-Planes if you aren't trying out the new toys?
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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:19AM (#16801980)
The point is to investigate new airframe technologies, not fully integrated flight systems which the commercial world can handle with DoD contracts.
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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by rbanffy on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:52PM (#16804008)
Also, to properly investigate something, it's usually better to investigate only one thing, not a combination of various different things that,with luck, means something.
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