The testing discussed at the link below seems very mundane, and it is, but it points out at least two interesting facts regarding military needs and test approaches:
- First, budgets are so tight that a test program designed to save only a few percentage points in the fuel burn of a single aircraft is now worth undertaking. This was not always the case.
- Second, budgets are so tight that the services continue to borrow planes from operational units to do flight testing. This has been going on for a while, and the trend is not going away any time soon, especially for large aircraft.
http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123471707
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