Shooting down the F117
At the time this was a shock – how could a stealth aircraft get hit? The F-117 was at the cutting edge of military technology. But it was shot down by an old radar system that used vacuum tubes! Here…
At the time this was a shock – how could a stealth aircraft get hit? The F-117 was at the cutting edge of military technology. But it was shot down by an old radar system that used vacuum tubes! Here…
Last fall, NASA released some photographs of its synthetic Schlieren photography that captured the sonic boom of a supersonic jet in flight. Recently, the government decided to classify the high resolution photographs from that release, although low resolution images, such…