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From: rajiv@hpcllla.HP.COM (Rajiv Kumar)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Is it for real?
Message-ID: <9130001@hpcllla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 88 21:31:06 GMT
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> [a Honda commercial with Stealth bomber deleted]
> Could this be a fake prototype?

 You are right about it. It is a mockup of the stealth bomber. Honda
went to great lenghts to make it.

>Not more than an hour ago as I write this, I saw a national newscast that said
>the government has released an official picture of the Stealth bomber.

  You are confusing between the stealth bomber (B-2) and the stealth 
fighter (F-117A). USAF released the pictures of the fighter and not the 
bomber. They have promised to *show* the bomber to the press sometime
soon. So stay tuned. 

>I vaguely remember seeing the Honda commercial, and I don't think that Stealth
>looks anything like the real one, which hardly comes as a surprise.

 Actually, the plane in the honda commercial is pretty darn close to the
"artists impression" of B-2 which USAF released some time ago. 

>Some of the folks out there may remember that a model company, 
>Testor's, I think it was, came out with a plastic model of what 
> was supposedly a Stealth plane. This caused quite a stink, 
 
 I once assembled that kit and you are right - it wasn't anything like
from what I can gather from today's picture in the NYT.

> Phil Plait

Rajiv Kumar
rajiv%hpclrk@hplabs.hp.com