{"id":193133,"date":"2009-01-17T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/if-you-need-to-incorporate-stealth-into-a-transport-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T11:25:00","slug":"if-you-need-to-incorporate-stealth-into-a-transport-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/if-you-need-to-incorporate-stealth-into-a-transport-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Need to Incorporate Stealth into a Transport Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then maybe you have a problem like lack of air superiority over your airfields, which pretty much means &#8220;game over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder why the USAF is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Affcc3288-ea90-450a-8e95-9c40b5d8626a\">soliciting proposals from Boeing and Northrop-Grumman for stealthy STOL airlifters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this is a way to get additional money for a successor to the B-2 bomber through a back door, because there ain&#8217;t any money in the front door.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is technically challenging, if just because tailless designs do not lend themselves to short take-off and landing and the slow speeds that this entails.<\/p>\n<p>The basic requirement, the ability to operate from a a 1,500-2,000ft landing strip and cruise at Mach 0.80 is doable, and has been done, even at the size that they are looking at, a 35T payload, roughly equivalent to an EADS A400M, which comes close to these goals&#8230;Or it will when it finally flies.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the two proposals differ, with Boeing going with a tail, and they will rely heavily on things like blown flaps, and perhaps some application of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coanda_effect\">Coand\u0103 effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/8374\/39bc2bbc8c834837a32d7c4wg8.jpg\" \/><br \/>Boeing Concept<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img232.imageshack.us\/img232\/1625\/7de2b3c94741494988d2f91zr6.jpg\" \/><br \/>Northrop-Grumman Concept<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img398.imageshack.us\/img398\/8366\/6b91fd368ffd423bb4a4285ne6.jpg\" \/><br \/>STOL Technologies from Northrop-Grumman<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then maybe you have a problem like lack of air superiority over your airfields, which pretty much means &#8220;game over&#8221;. This makes me wonder why the USAF is soliciting proposals from Boeing and Northrop-Grumman for stealthy STOL airlifters. My guess is that this is a way to get additional money for a successor to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}