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Originally Posted by GatorB
I think we are already at that point. That's not to say we still won't advance just not at the same pace. Take something like planes. From 1903-1953 we went from the Wright brothers wooden crappy plane that could barely get 5 feet off the ground and go 500 feet to jet engines. Have planes adavanced that much since 1953? No. Would the learning curve of someone flying a jet fighter in 1953 to trying to learn to fly a moden jet fighter be as hard as taking a pilot form WWI in 1918 and teaching him to fly a 1950's jet? No. We sent men to the moon 39 years ago. We still don't have the technology to make manned spacecraft go much faster than we did then.
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Military aircraft has advanced a lot. Think of the stealth bombers for instate. It would be incapable of flight with out the computer systems that keep it stable. While basic flight hasn't changed much technology in military aircraft have advanced at a large pace, but mostly the added on weaponry and computer systems.
The reason basic flight hasn't changed much is mainly due to the human body because we have reached the max G limit humans can handel. Yet if you look at the new gen fighters like the F22 it uses movable thrusters that allow it to be more maneuverable than the previous generation aircraft like a F16.