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I suggest that the article is about the person as well as the background and thinking that led to the invention of LiftFan.
Much of the article can be referenced by the Purdue and DesignNews refs, but only the most important lines have been given this ref. Other refs should be added.
Only Aeronautics is wikilinked, not Astronautics, as Paul is not an astronautics engineer. Aero+Astro happens to be the correct Purdue title.
(==Awards== can be added if nescessary.)
Text and PDF patents supplement each other. Date of idea is unclear, but patent was filed in 1990 and publicised in 1993. TGCP (talk) 22:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
