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From: adrian%cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK (Adrian Hurt)
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Subject: Stealth aircraft
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Date: 27 Jul 89 11:31:21 GMT
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From: Adrian Hurt <adrian%cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>



A long time ago, when no-one (except the privileged few who were working on it)
knew what the stealth aircraft looked like, or even if they existed, the theory
(to us outsiders) was that to make the aircraft less visible to radar, you had
to reduce the number of sharp edges and straight lines. Edges, straight lines
and flat planes reflected radar well; smooth, curved surfaces didn't. Model
firms produced kits of nice, smooth, curvy stealth aircraft.

Now we see the real things, and both the fighter and the bomber have nothing
but straight edges and flat plane surfaces! What's going on? Is it all a secret
subversive plot to drive model builders nuts? Or to get the Russians to build
something which they think is stealthy, but isn't really?

 "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott

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