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Wind Tunnel: navy surveillance aircraft achieves test milestone.


Wind-tunnel tests for the Navy P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft went off without a hitch hitch

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Jack Zerr, Boeing's P-8A program manager, notes that "this major milestone moves us significantly closer to the start of flight testing for weapons separation and also validates the aircraft's design."
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Title Annotation:TECH TALK
Author:Williams, Robert H.
Publication:National Defense
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2006
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