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> The design used those big low poly triangles not because it’s optimal (aerodynamically, very much not!)

It was so bad, they called it The Hopeless Diamond. To keep it in the air instead of dropping like a stone, flight computers had to be developed. Another stepping stone for the B2 which faced similar challenges.



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