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stealth aircraft
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- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Pilot’s handbook of aeronautical knowledge. [s.l.], 2008. Disponível em:
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- Designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar or sonar difficult.
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- A more important advantage is that a very smooth, compound curved, aerodynamic structure made from composites reduces drag. This is the main reason sailplane designers switched from metal and wood to composites in the 1960s. In aircraft, the use of composites reduces drag for the Cirrus and Columbia line of production aircraft, leading to their high performance despite their fixed landing gear. Composites also help mask the radar signature of “stealth” aircraft designs, such as the B-2 and the F-22.
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