CAS AR 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Stealth Aircraft
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June 24, 1947 pilot (kenneth arnold) claimed he saw 9 shiny ufo"s lying past mt. Rainier at speeds esimated at 1200mph: sighing created the name ufo & lying saucer. Concern from gov. "s b/c of possible threat to naional security (projects disconinued & made public) What are people seeing: satellites (today, experimental airplanes (e. g. stealth planes, secret, only see them ater the planes have been developed. Problems w/ space: humans get harmed, radioacive, bones & muscles atrophy, propulsion, 1yr to get to mars, 40yrs to get out of solar system.