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To: MrB

I assume that is a joke?

Or are you implying that F117’s don’t reflect sound?


16 posted on 03/11/2008 8:25:46 AM PDT by RobRoy (I'm confused. I mean, I THINK I am, but I'm not sure. But I could be wrong about that.)
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To: RobRoy

The way the f117 is stealthy is the REDIRECTION of the reflection.

Yes, it reflects sound, and it reflects radar, but just not back to the source.

That’s why it has all those funky angular planes on it. In the book “Skunkworks”, they said it was ironic that the math/geometry behind this approach has been around for a LONG time, and was discovered by a Russian mathematician.


21 posted on 03/11/2008 8:30:36 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: RobRoy

I remember buying a model of it on September 26, 1985 in Harold Fuchs Hobby Shop while we were still denying their existence. What does the F-117 and an Ovation Guitar have in common.


23 posted on 03/11/2008 8:31:21 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: RobRoy
Or are you implying that F117’s don’t reflect sound?

I doubt they reflect much sound back to the source. Propagation is propagation.

25 posted on 03/11/2008 8:32:35 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: RobRoy

Deflecting sound waves was kind of a side property (though Stealth is more than just RADAR observability). The dead bats suggested that a similar approach would be possible to defeat SONAR. Lockheed built the SEA SHADOW as a proof of concept. So far as we know, it never went further than that.


48 posted on 03/11/2008 9:02:13 AM PDT by Tallguy (Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
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