Re: OT: "Warplane" Documentary Starts This Week on PBS

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:57:04 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

You can see it uses the same sort of radar attenuating "pie-slice"
leading edge structure as the A-12/SR-71:
http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/kingfish/img/kingfish_02.jpg
Until I saw this, I had assumed that this was a Lockheed innovation; but
this makes it look like it was given to both Lockheed and Convair by a
third source, or Lockheed gave Convair access to it.

....The interesting thing is that, according to some stories I've heard
from my Pop and some of his Air Farce buddies years ago, they were
reportedly experimenting with the wedgies back in WWII with a couple
of B-29's in hopes of at least reducing the cross-section enough to at
least play some havok with the German radar returns. The story is that
it happened really late in the war, and by the time they got anywhere
towards getting any positive results both sides of the war were over.

OM
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