ORIGINAL: Robrow
The Demon is boundry layer control technology but also much more in colaborating and bringing together Cranfield and other universities, developing the next generation of students/designers, exploring/developing new composite production techniques and control/control laws.....surely these are good things to encourage?
It is way more than it seems on the surface, it's easy to criticise from the outside.
Rob.
Rob ,I am not criticizing the project but the media crap around it. There is no question that the guys who are working on it are doing a good job. And I am pretty sure that the project manager never said:
"I feel sure I have witnessed a significant moment in aviation history"
simply because he knows that this technology exists and has been proven for more than 10 years. But the journalists like to make things sensational...
Also if the governemnt allowed some media coverage on this project, it means that it is outdated anyway...