A defense contractor is about to unveil a new plane, which has taken several years and several billions of dollars to create. Many governmental observers are uneasy about its first flight, since its designers built it straight from a computer model without first building a prototype to test the plane's design, as is the usual procedure.
Which one of the following statements, if true, would be most likely to ease the governmental observers' concerns?
A) The new three-dimensional computer modeling technique used by the contractor simulates the trials typically faced by a prototype.
B) The Secretary of Defense has proposed delaying the deployment of this plane for one year.
C) This plane is susceptible to some of the same problems that caused the recent crash of another innovative plane.
D) Many positive features of the plane cannot yet be revealed because of national security considerations.
E) The computer model has already passed a battery of Department of Defense quality checks