The only link I have for this is the membership-required URL below, but word on the street (courtesy AvWeek, which is never a surprise) is that the Edwards team accomplished 49 flights worth of data points in only 16 flights, which is a better than three-fold improvement in test efficiency. How did you guys do that? (Hopefully not the old standard of "padded" test planning.) If you can get in, the link has some excellent info on progress of the test program and plans for next steps.
http://www.aviationweek.com/publication/awst/loggedin/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&channel=awst&pubKey=awst&issueDate=2011-12-05&story=xml/awst_xml/2011/12/05/AW_12_05_2011_p54-398723.xml&headline=X%2d47B+Heads+To+Pax+River+En+Route+To+Carrier+Demo
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