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From: John Smith <JS@abpa.inv>
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Subject: Re: Boeing YC-14
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Miloch wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14
> 'The Boeing engineers were aware ["in mid-1970"] that NASA had carried
> out a series of "powered lift" studies some time earlier, including
both
> externally blown flaps'
'The principle of the jet flap, a type of internally blown flap, was
proposed
and patented in 1952 by the British National Gas Turbine Establishment
and
thereafter investigated by the NGTE and the Royal Aircraft
Establishment."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown_flap)'.
Of course, being "so far behind the curve" they had no idea what they
were
doing until the Merkans came along two years later with their Lockheed
Kickback. Also, they had no suitable "ugly as sin" airplane on which to
employ it until the Blackburn Buccaneer was rushed into service to outsin
the Grumman Intruder.
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