Originally Posted by Milo Minderbinder
So they're doing the research to see if it works first, before any design is fixed for production. If that had been true of the F-35, so much would be different.
Yeah... and they could have called it... oh, X-35 maybe?
And called the competing technology demonstrator made by Boeing the... X-32?
And they could have used that technology demonstrator program to see how well each manufacturer handled the advanced composites, and how close their predictions of aircraft performance came to actual performance, and awarded the contract on that basis?
