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Exactly. I worked for Boeing as an intern and the entire industry is like this. It's basically 90% of aerospace, outside of the startups, is like IBM, Oracle. These companies have extraordinary history (facilities from WW2! god damn museums with their products! rise and fall tied with global geopolitics, seeing armed security and international VIP's at the guarded entrances) but will never innovate unless put up against a wall.

At my university, wind tunnels had a black curtain that could be used to conceal the test section contents. During the Cold War, they used it to prevent casual onlookers from witnessing confidential design work for the govt.