List,
Greetings from Boeing, Brock has pretty much put this in the proper light - from the defense side of this house - Thanks
Steven E. Pierce
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> From: Brock Hinzmann[SMTP:bhinzmann@sric.sri.com]
> Reply To: Brock Hinzmann
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 15:34
> To: RP-ML; Antonios Vavouliotis
> Subject: RE: RP and Defence Industry
>
> Dear Antonios,
>
> The curt answers to your question are due to the fact that, yes, of course many applications of RP exist in the military and defence industry, for many of the same reasons as in other industries, only more so. Many of the earliest applications of RP were in defence and I recall various examples from Texas Instruments, Lockheed, Boeing, and others. New missiles and aircraft can be scaled down in size for meetings and, just as important, appropriations presentations. Scaling up in size can be important for explaining to a politician how something works. When you are dealing with new technologies, as is often the case in military applications, one-of-a-kind test models can be built cheaply for wind tunnel, accoustical, radar, and other kinds of testing. Things have to work even better in the military than in commercial applications. In the military, there is first place... and there is dead.
>
> One of my favorite stories, however, was of the negative side; what happened to a defence contractor that didn't use RP. That particular company had spent thousands of man-hours building a model of a new military vehicle out of a mix of wood, metal, plastic, and canvas, which was glued together and painted. The model for this top-secret project looked so bad that someone accidently threw it out with the trash, where it was picked up by some dumpster diver, who tried to sell it to an alert model shop owner, who then began contacting the local defence contractors to see who had lost their model. Even in the military, it really helps to make models, let alone working protptypes, that look good.
>
> Brock Hinzmann
>
> Antonios Vavouliotis wrote:
> >Dear List,
> > I wonder if the techniques of RP have any application in the defence
> >industry?
> > Regards,
> >Antonios Vavouliotis
> >Research Assistant
> >University of Patras
> >
> >From: Antonios Vavouliotis <vavoul@lms.mech.upatras.gr>
>
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