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by jjk166 1429 days ago
> For all the shit about the F-35

> The C-130, for example, is probably one of if not the greatest aircraft ever designed.

One of the benefits of not being a "sexy" project is that you don't have everyone and their mother trying to be part of the design process. You can tell the team that designed the C-130 was given two numbers: range and payload, and every other aspect of the design was determined by the engineers.