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



Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

They've been advertising it, and it looks good.
Maybe you can help me on this; on the photos of the Kingfish radar pole model: http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/kingfish/kingfish.htm
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.
What's the case?



They got the idea from the crashed UFO at Roswell.



That explains the slices of hot apple pie that the coffee shop owner was offering me.
Or at least the "me" he remembered...that visited his coffee shop and ate a whole pie's worth of them.

Agent Fox Mulder
Federal Bureau Of Investigations


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    ... Paul Suhler wrote: ... Jim Eastham and I drove up to Blackbird Airpark in June of last ... Maybe you can help me on this; on the photos of the Kingfish radar pole ... or Lockheed gave Convair access to it. ...
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    ... Paul Suhler wrote: ... Jim Eastham and I drove up to Blackbird Airpark in June of last year and spent the afternoon dehydrating and getting sandblasted. ... Maybe you can help me on this; on the photos of the Kingfish radar pole model: http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/convair/kingfish/kingfish.htm ... 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. ...
    (sci.space.history)