China's stealth jet -J-20
On 1/8/2011 3:40 PM, John Szalay wrote:
Kerryn wrote in
Didn't the original research for stealth come out of Russia (or at
least was done by Russian mathematicians...
In a-round-about way,
According to Ben Rich's book, the original formulas were from a scottish
physicist James Maxwell,developed a century ago, later refined by a german
electromagnetics expert Arnold Sommerfeld, then put in a paper by a
russian radio engineer scientist named Pyotr Ufimtsev ,paper was called
"Method of edge waves in the physical theory of diffraction"
that paper was ignored for 9 years until translated and discovered
by a Skunk Works mathemation named Denys Overholser.
once he understood the theory, stealth came into being.
REF:
Skunk Works" by Ben Rich& Leo Janos.
page 19
IMHO:
One Hellofa read, well worth having on your book shelf.
That's sort of what I remember reading..
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