From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #128 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk 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 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ From: ceferino@ingres.com Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:14:00 +28316 Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #126 unsubscribe skunk-works-digest ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #128 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).