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Is the cost of change astronomical before a piece of metal is bent?

February 26, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

The reason that far too little… flexibility is purchased—aside from a development philosophy which results in large technical as well as financial commitments very early […]

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Lessons from side-looking radar development

March 23, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

During WWII, US developers decided not to use 0.86 centimeter frequency for their “side-looking” aircraft radar because their experimental test models predicted it would have […]

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