Message posted by quellish on December 10, 2010 at 20:51:00 PST:
The Army lost interest very quickly, as Quiet Bird was originally a battlefield observation aircraft. As usual, any Army operation of a fixed wing jet aircraft would raise hackles with USAF. The Navy has a long history of interest in stealth. The Office of Naval Research contracted McDD and Boeing for a Quiet Attack Aircraft study in the early 1970s, and later Lockheed worked with the navy on a stealthy aircraft before XST. It was this work that directly lead to the computational electromagnetics software that was used to design The Hopeless Diamond and HAVE BLUE.
Quiet Bird does represent a level of competence with LO design that was ahead of other efforts at the time, such as Teledyne Ryan's efforts to reduce the signature of their drones.
In Reply to: Re: What about quiet bird? posted by TheSkunkWorks on December 10, 2010 at 15:54:17 PST:
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