Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: brndlfly@athena.mit.edu (Matthew T Velazquez) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: F-117A Performance Message-ID: <1991Feb6.033108.22715@cbnews.att.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 03:31:08 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 8 Approved: military@att.att.com From: brndlfly@athena.mit.edu (Matthew T Velazquez) As far as I know, the F-117 intake screens are not designed to protect/prevent foreign object ingestion. They ARE designed to prevent hostile radar from peeking right up into the first-stage compressor. -T