Re: Website on NACA

From: Derek Lyons (fairwater_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:35:24 GMT

OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org>
wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:24:23 -0800, Rusty
><reuben_barton@no.spam.yah00.c0m> wrote:
>
>>The Stealth biplane - 1990
>>http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19900015811_1990015811.pdf
>
>...Man, it's planes like this that take the honor out of military
>flight. Von Richtofen and Von Hammer must be turning over in their
>graves :-)

Nah. The 'stealth' moniker was applied only to sex-up the project,
stealth was not an actual consideration in the design. (And it's a
student engineering project to boot, not a 'real design'.)

D. 

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