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Skunk Works Digest        Tuesday, 25 January 1994      Volume 04 : Number 128

In this issue:

	Visual masking
	Visual stealth with lights
	Re: MD-21 Navigation and Control
	Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #126  
	Re: Visual stealth 

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From: seb@tadtec.co.uk (steve)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:21:42 GMT
Subject: Visual masking

One more recent occurence:  The AV8's of the US Marines during Desert Storm
had the edges of the air intakes painted gloss white.  This was because the
(relatively) huge air intakes otherwise showed up as black against the blue
background of the sky and made the VTOL aircraft much easier to spot.

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From: russellk@BIX.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 13:39:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Visual stealth with lights

The technique of visually masking vehicles (etc) using lights to
make them look like background was demonstrated in the NOVA program
a few years ago on Camouflage and stealth. Highly recommended if
you haven't seen it. (Not to mention the Zig-zag painting of 
British ships--you have to see it to believe it!)

	-- Russell Kay
		Byte Magazine
          russellk@bix.com
          603-924-2591

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From: larry@ichips.intel.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:01:18 -0800
Subject: Re: MD-21 Navigation and Control

Carl writes:
>>Could someone enlighten me?
>>
>>How was the D-21 drone recovered? Or was it a one-shot expendable drone?
>>Does anyone know how it was controlled? Inertial nav.? I guess this was
>>prior to GPS.

Larry responded:
>It had an INS+guidance computer that could be programmed, and it had an 
>autopilot to fly it. 

Consider the above confirmed. I verified this with a Honeywell person Fri.
night (the official unveiling of the MD-21 exhibit) who was involved with
the D's 'pallet'. He stated: "once the drone was launched, it was on its own".

Larry

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From: ceferino@ingres.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:14:00 +28316
Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #126  

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From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 23:37:33 -0800
Subject: Re: Visual stealth 

russellk@BIX.com says...
 >The technique of visually masking vehicles (etc) using lights to
 >make them look like background 

They even had a funny name for it: "Project Yehudi". :)

 >was demonstrated in the NOVA program a few years ago on Camouflage 
 >and stealth. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it. (Not to 
 >mention the Zig-zag painting of British ships--you have to see 
 >it to believe it!)

Yea, great show!   I believe it was called "Deceptions of War".
It was follwed by another episode of potential interest to this
group: "Echos of War", which was about radar.


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