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So are you saying everyone doing these tests is knowingly wasting their time?

• lutusp 12y ago
  Not at all. Scale modeling is better than nothing, but its limitations must be kept in mind.
  • micampe 12y ago
    But you said tests with scale models give wrong results: “a scale model won't behave very much like the full-size craft”.
    • lutusp 12y ago
      That's true, but it doesn't contradict what I said above. And I wouldn't call them "wrong" results. Obviously all modeling efforts are approximations, efforts to produce an estimate of the final craft's behavior. No one expects perfect modeling, except of course by the finished craft.