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From: sheppard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Kenneth Charles Sheppardson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Is it for real?
Summary: Re : Is this real ?
Keywords: stealth
Message-ID: <3f9a1368.124cb@dl124cb.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 13:06:00 GMT
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Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Pictures of the stealth bomber, a mock up of which appears in the
recent Honda campaign, were released last spring.  It's a large
black flying wing. I think ( don't quote me ) that first flight
was either over the summer or this fall.
 
Pictures of the stealth fighter were released yesterday.  It's 
also black, but aside from that, the appearance is totally 
different from the B-2.  It's a ( relatively ) small plane, just
a little larger than an F-16, and is supposed to cost ~4x as much
as an F-16 or about $60 million.
 
Secrecy on the stealth fighter was lifted to allow for daytime 
flights.  Until now most/all test flights were at night.  You may
remember that two fighters have crashed during test flights, in
both cases killing the pilots.

I'de be interested in hearing how someone could get the fighter
and the bomber mixed up.

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                                       Ken Sheppardson
                                       Aerospace Engineering Dept
                                       University of Michigan