"You would have to have solid knowledge of aviation and its protocols and that's not easy to get, " he said, adding that he planned to keep on with the research.
"If industry had to wait for government employees to be available to do the testing" and to develop enough technical knowledge to assess new aviation technologies, "we would just never get any products certified, " Goglia said.
So, to have a self reliant aviation industry, it is only now that we have the knowledge base that will enable us to build and innovate for the next generation fighter jets, when this knowledge base has been available to the developed world for half a century!