case.
Safety and redundancy of multi-engine systems is a complex and evolving field. What is unacceptably unreliable using one technology, demanding full redundancy, may be a lot better using a different technology.
For example combustion engines used to be so unreliable and lacking in...
2020s
aurora flight sciences
bell textron
cold war ii
defense advanced research projects agency
northrop grumman aeronautic systems
piasecki aircraft corporation
pterodynamics
sierra nevada corporation
unitedstatesunitedstatesspecialoperationscommand
vtol
The Vought Archive at the University of Texas in Dallas contains quite a strange series of entries:
This clearly indicates that Scaled Composites conducted a study in 1991 for the rapid prototyping of a SOFTA aircraft.
Strange is the way the XC-142 seems to be associated to the same report...
cold war
early 1990s
ling-temco-vought
post-cold war
scaled composites
specialoperationsunitedstatesunitedstatesspecialoperationscommand
us air force specialoperationscommand
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