And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"Anonymous", April 28, 2021 at 9:51 AM has it right. The F-117 is faceted - almost all of the surfaces are more or less planar, and their intersections are straight lines. It's a very angular shape, whereas the B-2 is all curves. As I understand it, they didn't have adequate software or enough computer power, when the F-117 was being developed, to do all the compound curves that the B-2 has. Still, the "Wobblin' Goblin" is a remarkable achievement. Back when the cat got out of the bag Aviation Week & Space Technology had a number of articles about the F-117. They reported that the engineers had to come up with some kind of very specialized coating for the "glass" in the canopy. Without that, the radar return from the pilot's helmet would have been greater than that from the entire aircraft.
I would pay good money for someone to fab a fiberglass version of that to fit over a nice stock sedan chassis. If only to piss off the crew pukes at Whiteman.
B-2 ?
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Nice try, but the quad ejection panels on the roof and the side-by-side front seats should have been your tip off that's a B-2.
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Sure could use one of those along about now!
ReplyDelete"Anonymous", April 28, 2021 at 9:51 AM has it right. The F-117 is faceted - almost all of the surfaces are more or less planar, and their intersections are straight lines. It's a very angular shape, whereas the B-2 is all curves. As I understand it, they didn't have adequate software or enough computer power, when the F-117 was being developed, to do all the compound curves that the B-2 has. Still, the "Wobblin' Goblin" is a remarkable achievement. Back when the cat got out of the bag Aviation Week & Space Technology had a number of articles about the F-117. They reported that the engineers had to come up with some kind of very specialized coating for the "glass" in the canopy. Without that, the radar return from the pilot's helmet would have been greater than that from the entire aircraft.
ReplyDeleteI would pay good money for someone to fab a fiberglass version of that to fit over a nice stock sedan chassis. If only to piss off the crew pukes at Whiteman.
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