Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, up until early August, the details of the project were as shadowy as the plane was meant to be on a radar screen. All that was generally known was that the U.S. was working on some sort of radar-foiling aircraft, although aspects of the program had been quietly incorporated into the design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter...
Before TV camera crews and about 100 reporters, Brown confirmed that the U.S. had indeed test-flown a plane that was hard for radar to detect, said that it "cannot be successfully intercepted with existing air defense systems" and boasted that the development "alters the military balance" in favor of the U.S.-even though a fully operational Stealth bomber could not fly until 1987 at the earliest...
Nearly 40 years of research into the art of blinding radar's all-seeing eye have made the basic technology well enough known-to the Soviets, among others-to permit a general description of the Stealth's features...
Size: The smaller a plane, the less surface it presents to radar waves. Thus the prototype Stealth aircraft undoubtedly is small. Jane's All the World's Aircraft, the authoritative catalogue compiled in England, reports that the early version was a single-seater, presumably about the size of a fighter...
Shape: Sharp angles and large projections-engine pods, for example -reflect radar waves well; curving lines do not. Accordingly, the Stealth is slickly streamlined...