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Jeez the way this page is written makes it so hard to understand the main points.

There's a few sentences about the fan and then it jumps around without ever summarizing the key points.

It's so full of filler words it hurts to read

> However, before any of the above objectives can be investigated, between now and the first demonstration flight in the second half of the decade, an intensive phase of Engineering preparatory work is planned.

instead of

"Intensive engineering work is planned before the first demonstration flight.

It's frustrating because it's not for us. We want to know "why? what's wrong with a duct?" But this isn't a technical brief, it's some kind of press release focusing on when and where Airbus will be spending money on this thing, probably for shareholders. I imagine that's why it reads like they're paid by the word.

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