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YF-118G 'Bird of Prey': The First True Stealth Aircraft
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I hope you all are reading the full article!!!!
Can I have that 4 minutes of my life back? 
Nice article. More here:
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/V...hts, the,and assembly, and disposable tooling.
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/V...hts, the,and assembly, and disposable tooling.
It was an actual plane though.
Just that some elements in the article have been "enhanced".
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Of course, that's what makes it even better for 4/1.
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* What is remarkable about the aircraft is that was also the first to employ a cloaking shield that made it invisible to the naked eye.
* That same technology is now employed on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
* where the stealth technology was developed is unclear, but there is speculation it may have been obtained at Roswell in the late 1940s, and its use remains controversial due to its being banned for use as part of the Treaty of Algeron.
* noted for being the first aircraft to utilize transparent aluminum windows, which offered greater strength than glass with far less weight.
* the computer on board was a second-hand Commodore 64 running Microsoft Flight Simulator II.
* What is remarkable about the aircraft is that was also the first to employ a cloaking shield that made it invisible to the naked eye.
* That same technology is now employed on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
* where the stealth technology was developed is unclear, but there is speculation it may have been obtained at Roswell in the late 1940s, and its use remains controversial due to its being banned for use as part of the Treaty of Algeron.
* noted for being the first aircraft to utilize transparent aluminum windows, which offered greater strength than glass with far less weight.
* the computer on board was a second-hand Commodore 64 running Microsoft Flight Simulator II.
Sure sounds like 1 April
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