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Old 18th Aug 2013, 12:47
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Hamish 123
 
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Given the capabilities of computer aided design and testing these days, you'd expect the process to be much quicker than it is. I think that there were something like 20 pre-production Lightnings built to fully test it. Much of that work would be done by computer these days.
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