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Great video. I don't understand why they're looking at transonic speeds and calling it a transonic demonstrator. Airlines travel slower these days to save fue

Great video. I don't understand why they're looking at transonic speeds and calling it a transonic demonstrator. Airlines travel slower these days to save fuel costs. Edit: also, why does this have to be a full-sized demo? Can't a half-size demo do a sufficiently good job?

aaron695 4y ago
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olliej 4y ago
I assume smaller braced wing planes have already been made in the past, so making another similar scale one wouldn’t tell you anything new? Presumably the engineering challenges here are related to the scale of the craft now rather than other issues?