Stealth The Secret Contest To Invent Invisible Aircraft Peter Westwick by Peter Westwick 9780190677466, 0190677465 instant download after payment.

The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered them undetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar—an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process...