Talk:Vincent Burnelli

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[edit] Difficult personality

I read an article on the Web several years ago about the life and times of Vincent Burnelli, in which he was described as having a difficult personality. He apparently was fairly pushy with his ideas, and unwilling to compromise or negotiate. He presented his lifting body design concepts to a number of major U.S. aircraft manufacturers in the hope of getting them into production, but his proposals were rejected, not so much because the designs were so radically different from conventional aircraft, but because of his unbending attitude. If someone could dig up this information for inclusion into the Wikipedia article, it would help flesh out the story. Even though Burnelli didn't see his lifting body aircraft go into passenger and freight service, the ideas are still being considered and most recently have been revived in the Boeing X-48. —Quicksilver^{T @} 20:24, 28 July 2007 (UTC)