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Re: Various Technology Topics (stealth, etc.)
From: Dan Zinngrabe <quellish@macconnect.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 20:58:25 -0400
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>Thought Control
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>A few years ago I read an article regarding MAN--MADE--UFO's entitled
>'AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT ' , which was all about a project under-way at
>the time the book was published. The aim of this project was to research
>methods of using thought to control aircraft, this was done by hooking
>the pilots brain directly into the computer system onboard the aircraft,
>the pilot would only have to think, and the aircraft would perform. The
>project was conducted by the then Defense Advanced Research Projects
>Agency (D.A.R.P.A. - now called A.R.P.A.), the first computer designed
>for thought control had already been installed in a Phantom for testing
>when the book went to print. You can only start to imagine what the
>aircraft are like that were built last year and were the technology came
>from if this system worked in the end. In case you wondered this book is
>entitled "STRANGE STORIES / AMAZING FACTS" and below this title it said
>'Stories that are bizarre, unusual, odd, astonishing, incredible.....but
>true'.It was published in 1975 by READERS DIGEST.
>
>The publishers of the book said, because it was printed 21 years ago
>they no longer had any information regarding this article, but I found
>some info on thought control for PCS etc. This method incorporated a
>small finger glove which could pick up 70 different signals. This
>software will be available very soon, and as it turns out, even more
>people have been researching thought control for medical use.
USAF current;y manages the "thought-based control" programs at
Wright-Patterson, last year even the dreaded PopMech had a storey on it.
Now they can make a simulated aircraft bank with a "thinking cap". Whopee!
>
>In the mid-1970's DARPA asked 5 major aerospace contractors to consider
>the concept of STEALTH TECHNOLOGY.{It was around this time the project
>was under-way for the thought control system.}
>In late 1975 LOCKHEED were developing a new computer program called ECHO
>1
Well, 4 contrators, but who's counting.
ECHO was, of course, Lockheed's Radar Cross Section analysis tool.
>
>Some research into Phantom Aircraft:-
They were used as chase planes, nothing more sinister. None are in storage
at Groom, though a great many are scattered oveer the bombing ranges- and I
*do* mean SCATTERED.
>
>I have noticed Groom Dry Lake mentioned a lot of times in Aircraft
>magazines, sometimes called a est facility etc., so it would not be
>surprising to find information about PHANTOM'S being stored there. I
>haven't had much time to research this article.
>
The view seemed to be, if they could control an
>aircraft by thought, then the next step was to build an invisible
>aircraft i.e. Stealth.
Somebody's seen "Firefox" a few too many times :P
The stealth project was more or less complete by
>'85 ( Lockheed had the F-117 and Northrop had the TACIT BLUE aircraft).
>By the mid 80's D.A.R.P.A. were researching laser weapons under the
>programs Skylight and Triad.
DARPA was never very interested in lasers as weapons- that was SDIO's
mission. DARPA was more interested in using them as sensors and for
medicine.
By late 1985, F-15's were equipped with the
>ASAT missile (Anti-Satellite), able to shoot down satellite's while they
>were in orbit around Earth.
That weapons was cancelled while still in testing due to congressional
pressure and lack of a clearly defined mission. It couldn't hit the most
important Soviet birds anyway.
>
>The March/April edition of UFO Magazine contained pictures of Lockheed's
>Helendale facility. These pictures clearly showed a prototype model of a
>unusually shaped craft (possibly disc shaped).
Or it could be the mount for the RCS models that are tested on the range-
which is there every day, and has been in Lockheed's Horizons magazine many
times.
Groom lake is the testing ground for all SAR Programs,
>Lockheed especially.
Not all SAP/SAR programs get sent to Groom- some stay in labs, some go
elsewhere, like Edwards or Eglin.
The Lockheed
>Q-Star was said by Jane's Defense Weekly to be linked very closely to
>the supposed Aurora craft.
How a 100kt prop relates to a Mach 5 combined cycle propulsion system is
beyond me. The Q-star was R&D aircraft based on a sailplane- not something
apt to break wind, much less the sound barrier.
The designs of the Arrow 1 and the A-6 also
>by Lockheed are very similar to the craft nick-named the ' Aurora '
The A-6 INTRUDER??? I think not.
. The
>Kingfisher by General Dynamics is also very similar to this craft. While
>designing the B-2 spirit, Northrop had a design called the Manta, a name
>also given to an aircraft said to have given the F-117A air support in
>the Gulf War. In the early 80's funding for the B-2 Spirit were under
>the name ' Aurora '.
Not, it wasn't. Check the dates against the numbers for funding. The
kingfisher was a 1960s project that competed with the A-12 to replace the
U-2.
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>NASA have now unveiled an FT prototype named Waverider. Some info. I
>have on the Waverider Project [which I have still to finish reading]
>says that this project has been going on for years and incorporates very
>advance propulsion systems and other very advance flight systems. The
>full size jet is thought to be already built.
Waveriders have been around since the 1950s, they're nothing new and have
been proven in flight test, wind tunnel, and CFD simulation.
Dan
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