Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings
by hollerith on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:53PM
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Ah, I see. You want to argue that since the F-117's instability did not prevent its becoming a success, despite using fly-by-wire computers that were 3 years older (and consequently more primitive) than the X-29's, then instability cannot be the root cause of the failure of the X-29.
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Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings
by EdwardCoffin on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:01PM
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The person you replied to was expressing skepticism that the claim that the X-29 was "the most aerodynamically unstable aircraft ever built", on the grounds that the F-117 first flew in 1981 (which implicitly predated the X-29 which first flew three years later in 1984), and was unstable on all three axes.
You asked of what relevance the date first flight was, and I made the relation of first flights explicit, which answers your question of what relevance it is. That is all. Your claim about what I want to argue exists only in your own mind.