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for the past six years flights have been

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made by a pair of x-29 aircraft from the

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desert with NASA's Dryden Flight

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the x-29 requires a new breed of

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aeronautical technology because it's

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thin wings close-coupled canards the

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smaller movable surfaces in front of the

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wings and rear straight flaps make it

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naturally unstable in flight to the

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control the computers are is necessary

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to fly the airplane is the hydraulic

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system is that actually moves the

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actuators steve ishmael one of the

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program's principal test pilots has

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experienced the benefits of combining

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new interrelated technology into one

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airplane it gets at another advance in

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technology where you see the interaction

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for instance between the canard and this

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forward sweep and and that's that's very

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very complex and it varies is your angle

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attack and your Mach changes that's part

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of the beauty in the problem of the art

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of designing airplanes the advantage of

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a forward swept design is that air

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moving over the wing tends to flow in

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word rather than outward this allows air

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flow to remain smooth around the

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wingtips and makes the x-29 easier to

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control and extreme maneuvers it's

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modern fighter jets have trouble

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handling anything in excess of 30

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degrees six years the x-29 has proven

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flight systems and the use of composites

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in wing construction this highly

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successful flight test program will

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almost certainly influence future