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235 F-117 Stealth Fighter Designer Alan Brown + GA News

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A Brief History of Aeronautics

i arranged for allan to speak at the aero cub on northern california, which is an affiliate of n a a. I presented him with the n a a certificate of merit. He talked about the ou two aircraft as being not stealthy, but there was a proposal to look at putting wires around the plane that would essentially use capacity of coupling and out of phase cancellation. So it just wasn't practical to try and modify a conventional airplane for stealth. Instead, they would have to design an all new airplane with stealth as part of the original design. And he also talked about the original p 80 fighter that was built in World War II - three hundred days from concept to

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