US Stealth Fighter Projects

Hope to pre-order soon. I'm still kicking myself over never being able to get a copy of Metz's book on the YF-23. I'm looking forward to seeing how much detail this one goes into. There is apparently one Northrop NATF design (DP500?) that kept the v-tail configuration but was too long to meet requirements. I'd love to see an image of that design but maybe it never found its way into the public domain. I'm sure there is a lot of work related to JSF that also never saw the light of day. For example, Lockheed seemed to examine a pretty wide range of different airframe configurations between their final one for CALF layout and the one they went with for JSF.
Considering how many programs preceded JSF but were directly related, it would probably take a whole even larger book for the entire story.
 
The diagram collection for US Stealth Fighters. There may be some adjustments as the layout process goes forth. While hopefully reproduced at Tantalizing-Yet-Annoyingly-Small-Scale, each box represents a full page. So the great majority are full-page illustrations.
 

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Today I was able to order the book from amazon germany (for a price of 22,23 EUR). Expected delivery date is between april 2 and april 4. Let´s see. I´m looking forward to it!!
 
I pre-ordered my copy. Perhaps we can see something of the back history going back to the 1960's? I suspect there's rather more there than is commonly suspected. For example, Dr. Ira Chart once mentioned that Northrop got interested in low-observables after finding that the Snark was quite difficult to track from certain angles.
 
Is anyone else in the UK constantly getting their pre orders bounced? Six months ago I ordered via Amazon and it got cancelled a few weeks later, so I laid another order via Waterstones which got cancelled today. And the mortons website keeps losing all data entered when trying to order direct. Any suggestions for a reliable UK stockist?
 
elmayerle said:
I pre-ordered my copy. Perhaps we can see something of the back history going back to the 1960's? I suspect there's rather more there than is commonly suspected. For example, Dr. Ira Chart once mentioned that Northrop got interested in low-observables after finding that the Snark was quite difficult to track from certain angles.
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I thought they got interested earlier than that when they discovered the same of the YB-49.
 
Hanse said:
I thought they got interested earlier than that when they discovered the same of the YB-49.
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As I understand it, they really didn't get into it until the situation with the Snark. At least, that's what Dr. Chart's lecture told us.
 

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