Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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RobDickinson said:
built in 1962 before the concept of stealth was even really understood.
I don't know about that. I suspect the concept of stealth was understood about 5 minutes after radar was proved to work.The engineering and technology was the bit that would take time. But the concept "Can we deflect or absorb the signal so it doesn't reflect back to the point of origin and be invisible?" Must have occurred to people almost right away.
jmorgan said:
Did I read that the F117 was derived from some earlier Russian research that a worker for Lockheed spotted the potential? Not sure what the timeline for that was.
Rich Ben's book I think? Without digging it out.
Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction by Petr Ufimtsev first published in 1962 that was a study of radar reflections related to the edge of an object and not the shape or size.Rich Ben's book I think? Without digging it out.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Method_of_E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Method+of+Edge+W...
Munter said:
RobDickinson said:
built in 1962 before the concept of stealth was even really understood.
I don't know about that. I suspect the concept of stealth was understood about 5 minutes after radar was proved to work.The engineering and technology was the bit that would take time. But the concept "Can we deflect or absorb the signal so it doesn't reflect back to the point of origin and be invisible?" Must have occurred to people almost right away.
irocfan said:
Munter said:
RobDickinson said:
built in 1962 before the concept of stealth was even really understood.
I don't know about that. I suspect the concept of stealth was understood about 5 minutes after radar was proved to work.The engineering and technology was the bit that would take time. But the concept "Can we deflect or absorb the signal so it doesn't reflect back to the point of origin and be invisible?" Must have occurred to people almost right away.
Back at Coningsby today to see the Synchro Pair, they also got out the Dakota out
26 9 15 1 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
26 9 15 4 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
26 9 15 2 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
26 9 15 3 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
26 9 15 1 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr26 9 15 4 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr26 9 15 2 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr26 9 15 3 by Dave Goodhand, on Flickr
I'm guessing catapult failure here 
Edit - actually video on Youtube looks like nosegear faulure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJcErEwICo
Edit - actually video on Youtube looks like nosegear faulure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJcErEwICo
Edited by MartG on Wednesday 7th October 17:35
Easily the best Flickr stream I've found...
B-58 at Sunset by American Aviation Historical Society, on Flickr
B-58 at Sunset by American Aviation Historical Society, on Flickrukaskew said:
Easily the best Flickr stream I've found...
B-58 at Sunset by American Aviation Historical Society, on Flickr
Nasa has been lobbing a few inB-58 at Sunset by American Aviation Historical Society, on Flickrhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/albums/7...
Dr Jekyll said:
If so still one of my favourite aircraft, I remember standing at the end of a runway as a teenager watching a airshow, the plane stood on its tail level with me and went vertically up, the heat from the re-heat plus the noise was amazing, I watched it till it disappeared, this into a clear blue sky, if somebody had said it had gone into orbit I would not have argued with them.
Whatever it is it's a fantastic picture.
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