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- <title>
- Oct. 29, 1990: A Flock Of Stealths
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 35
- A Flock Of Stealths
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- <p> Is the Pentagon already flying new variations on the Stealth
- series of radar-fooling aircraft? Military aficionados think
- they've spotted at least two new planes near U.S. testing
- bases. One version is believed to be a prototype of the A-12,
- a successor to the Navy's A-6 attack plane, which is expected
- to cost some $60 million apiece. The plane has no vertical tail
- surface, giving it the appearance of a manta ray, according to
- one witness. Little is known about a separate aircraft being
- tested in northern California, which spotters say appears to be
- a successor to the F-117A fighter but is powered by a quieter
- engine. The Air Force developed the F-117A Stealth jet in
- complete secrecy and had 56 of them flying before their
- existence was publicly announced.
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- </body>
- </article>
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