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Old School Stealth Plane

posted by GregP
4/24/2008 10:11:02 PM

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HaPpYFaCeS : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

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580 days 20 hours ago...

this has to be my favourite aircraft.

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Robdor : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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580 days 14 hours ago...

hehe was it a stealthy plane? i thought it was just meant to be fucking fast.

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cam_012 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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580 days 14 hours ago...

Yeah, not a stealth plane at all..... just flew higher and faster then the missiles that were fired at it...

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GregP : LVL 61: VP 5: said:

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580 days 9 hours ago...

^Actually it had a very small RADAR cross section so it was also hard to see electronically, plus it was very very fast.

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Seitheach : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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580 days 5 hours ago...

It was indeed a bit stealthy, they actually added so called chines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird#Chines) to the Blackbird.
"Lockheed aerodynamicists believed it would hurt the aircraft`s aerodynamic performance. They are the sharp edges leading from the nose along the sides of the fuselage, which generated powerful vortices around themselves providing a lot of additional lift to the front portion of the aircraft. Eventually leading to surprising improvements in aerodynamic performance." (Leonardo Times, Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Magazine)

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