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Old 08-30-09, 08:49 PM   #22
SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by Loud_Silence View Post
Sicerely, it's hard to believe for me that an organisation like NASA, with lots of test centers, huge computers, atc, relies on a commercial simulator to test their designs...
NASA doesn't, but a few aircraft manufactures do. They use it as a baseline to get initial flight model data, DUE TO ITS AIRFLOW CALCULATIONS OVER THE WING!

It is not the end all flight model, but its pretty damn close and can be used to understand how an airfoil will be operate without needing to tie up a supercomputer.

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