Subscale Model Flight Testing Expands Role At NASA

Credit: NASA
Economist Ernst Schumacher was not thinking about aeronautical research when he coined the phrase “small is beautiful” in the 1970s, but the economic benefits he saw from appropriate scaling have been taken to heart by NASA over recent decades as budget pressures forced it to perform tests using...

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