Yes, I am a 16 year veteran of the B2 program, from Research to Development, (Tacit Blue) to Production, then Modifications, and Depot Maintenance.
My specialty besides Quality Engineering and all QA Operations, was LOA/RCS (Low Observable Aircraft Applications-Radar Cross Sections)-Engineering, as well as Stress, Design, and Material Review of Non-Conforming Parts, plus a world of every know facet, aspects, or processes, and systems known to AC Engineering. Including Rocket Propulsion Systems, as well as solid rocket fuel compositions, to liquid, gas, and other engineering formulas for all rocket propulsion systems...including testing of such rockets, and so on an so on. Including all manned space flight systems, from egress, to oxygen, hydrogen, hydrazine, metal fatigue, and metal chemistry for design of necessary vehicle components, and structural build, incl. every system known to man to provide safe manned integration with space.
I could talk all day about the Aircraft, and Space Vehicles, til the cows come home....
I began on the L-1011's, was laid off, went down to Burbank Skunk-Works on the F-117A, before anyone new the AF had crashed 2 of them, until ships 3 and 4 were seen crashing into the Sequoia Natl Forest, on the west, then east slope of the High Sierra Nevada...(Groom Lake)....I know nothing about such a place....I didn't mention that did I.
Onward to the Space Shuttle Program, for another 12 years, and Rocket-dyne testing facility, as well as the Shuttle Rocket Engine builds in Van Nuys, and out in the Boeing Radioactive test firing site.
At the same time I was working on the X31 Rockwell-Messerschmitt , thrust vectoring AC, which only 2 prototypes were built.
I then went to Northrop ADP, on the YF-23 also years prior to the public even knowing we had it flying. The YF-23 flight test data, kicked the shit out of the YF-22-ATF, Lockheed piece of shit.That was the most political screw job, I have ever seen. The Govt. told both Northrop and Lockheed, their AC program would be awarded with a 50 percent mandatory requirement to deliver 2 prototype Aircraft on time. Northrop had the YF-23 on the Tarmac with engines running ready to fly on the given date. Lockheed however had to file for a 7 month extension, as they were not ready. Ding #1. Once Lockheed was ready, Northrop had already flown its YF-23s, for over 1,000 test hours, with but one minor defect, a leading edge contrail was given off, from a minor anomaly. It was fixed in 30 minutes, and yes, that was the only Flight Test Defect on the Superior YF-23. (I say this open minded as I worked for both companies). Once the YF-22 flew, its flight test data, was fed to my office, as well as the YF-23. (The flight test data, I received for the 22 was in 5 each six inch binders. The 23, data required but a very small 3 inch binder, for all test data, and had like I said, but one defect, so no requirement to build a library for defect documentation). The YF-23 unbeknownst to the public, kicked the shit out of the YF-22, in every flight test. The YF-22 was very problematic, and as you know both were crashed due to its computer malfunctions. The Govt. awarded the contract to the company that did NOT deliver on time or schedule, then delivered a piece of shit design which could not fly without its computers, as it is not aerodynamically sound enough to fly by wire.
The YF-23 was a superior Advanced Tactical Fighter, in every test category the Air Force threw at it. It was hilarious watching Generals scratch their heads, as the YF-23 overwhelmed the 22. The 23 was faster by 900 additional supersonic mph. It was much more stealthier of a design from the composite structures, versus Lockheed predominate metal exterior structure design. (Lockheed Stealth Engineering is living in the dark ages). The outer mole line of the 23, had much more advances stealth technologies, while Lockheed came to Edwards like grade school boys in a Advanced University Class, of which they had NO clues.
In every known detail, the 23, was in all ways superior. However Lockheed had ZERO Major Contracts, while Northrop had the biggest payola on the B2 Program. The Billions of $$$$$$ Northrop received on the B2, enabled them to advance their LOA/RCS Engineering Program. So the 23 had 15 years of technology advancements, the 22 did not. The 22 depends on Plan-form Alignment, and exterior coatings. The 23 uses some plan form- alignment, (more-so on the B2), yet, like the B2 utilized design integration of LOA/RCS, by not just deflecting Radar, like the 22 did, and that is all the 22 used, other than those stealth coatings. Northrop used, design integration, by using composite non reflective radar materials in its structual build. Using composites, and design where Radar not only deflects, but passes over the rolling exterior of the 23 and B2. Radar if not deflected goes over those AC, or the exterior absorbs radar, rather radar, cannot ping off of composite, radar absorbent materials (RAM), or round circular exterior designs. The YF-23 uses no exterior coatings other than its TSAR paint job.
This issue literally pisses me off, since I worked on the ATF program at EAFB. Lockheed got the contract, because they would of had to go out of business, or be bought out by Northrop. The Govt. awarded the ATF to Lockheed, even tho' it could not deliver on time, then delivered 2 prototypes, that never even finished their testing, due to crashing of both AC, they did bring to the party. Lockheed has had more than its share of problems, due to having to finish flight testing on production Aircraft. Again a Govt. boondoggle, if I ever saw the most unfair progam awarded to the worst of the 2, AC, that was to be a competition in the air, and radar range. But it wasn't...
Saw time on the JSF also a piece of shit, which Northrop does all the radar and electrical systems on.
Yes, I have worked on the JUCAV's....the X47, and a few other successors, and predecessors, and lord knows their is a world of stealth AC out there, the public still will never know about.
Have you heard or seen the Northrop Switchblade, it does exist and has flown, tho' the public was told it would not fly until 2020..I also worked on the AD-1 with NASA, and Grumman, at EAFB, which the Switchblade used the Engineering of flight test data, and technology to design the Switchblade.
I can't say much about the X47, or the other TSAR AC I have seen behind locked doors....However let me say, there is a Diamond shaped AC, flying out of Edwards, only at night, and has retractable wings. It takes off with wings extended, then retracts them for supersonic flight..........this AC is unknown a TSAR AC, that I can say I have seen out here in the desert 3 times at night. Hey I didn't see this behind locked doors, or maybe I did, but I cannot say what I saw behind those doors, only what I saw on public domain property, out in this desert prairie, if you want to call this sandbox, windy dirt blowing desert, a prairie.
I will say, when it hits approx. 830 mph, its wings come into the body, and the AC is and looks like a diamond or a Kite. A perfect diamond.....
You've heard of Aurora?...It's a fact, not fiction...Yet,I'm not talking about that, and the diamond AC is not Aurora btw-
"Oh no I've said too much"...if the D.O.D. knocks my door down in the middle of the night, and take me in shackles to a Gulag, you will know, as I won't be around to post...!! I did sign my life away, giving the DOD, permission to do just that, as well as tap my phones at will, without my knowledge, for them to monitor my computer, or any other thing I do in life. Once your in, your fucked for life, no shit. Yet, I am only saying what is pretty much public knowledge already, yet the public is pretty dumb when it comes to TSAR AC. Obviously you are well versed in Rocket Science, no doubt, Totus....and you know these things already.
You've heard of Tacit Blue right? A B2 test bed, in the late 80s...or the hexagon, polygon, then trapezoid, and tetrahedrons, or tetrahedrederal objects flying about.......you would never believe the things I have seen, and if I told you, I wouldn't have to kill you, I would be shot myself....
Anyway, yes, it is nice to have a fellow rocket scientist in the house, touche totus, cheers....
