henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (11/17/89)
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
The Sept 18 issue of Aviation Week has a very interesting article, page 109,
on stealth materials. Much of the information is courtesy of Plessey
Microwave Materials of San Diego, because of a security oddity: due to
PMM's connections to its British parent company, much of its work in
stealth materials is unclassified! Due to fears about technology transfer --
a bit odd, since most of PMM's expertise in the area comes from Britain
in the first place -- many of PMM's defence customers won't reveal the
application of materials ordered from PMM, and so there is nothing secret
about the materials. Aviation Leak has some fun trying to guess the real
applications from the cryptic specs that are all PMM gets.
Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu