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reply posted on 25-2-2010 @ 07:12 AM by Everwatcher33
reply to post by Catalytic



Thanks, They do tell you that you can't take any pictures of the rear of the plane, within 5 feet of it, or above the plane in the rear. So probably why you don't see a lot of pictures of those areas. I must say though standing above the plane looking at the exhaust they are impressive when you see what's there.



reply posted on 25-2-2010 @ 07:14 AM by Everwatcher33
reply to post by Mondogiwa



Indeed what the plane is capable of doing should stay that way. As far as I know we only share some of those secrets with one other country, and even then not all of them.


reply posted on 9-5-2010 @ 06:00 AM by Catalytic
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You know I've spent 3 months trying to find photo's that peep into these bloody exhausts and at best, you see fairly innocuous looking 'channels' that direct the exhaust onto to rear of the wing.

I've not found one that shows any detail (just suspicious inky blackness) of what is present further up the exhaust flow i.e. in the covered tunnels which preceed the uncovered channels.

I'm expecting to see some kind of mixing system in this region, at the least we might expect some method of mixing cold air (gathered by the small boundary layer ducts below the main intakes) with the hot exhaust.

Some have speculated that we might hope to see equipment to inject electrons into the exhaust in this area. If this were the case, presumably some kind of pertrubrances are present to penetrate into the heart of the flow and not just the periphiary. My guess as to what this may look like is some kind of helical arrangement of vanes the purpose of which is to dump electrons and help mix the cold air collected by the previously mentioned auxillary inlets

any thoughts? what does industrial gas mixing / cooling equipment look like? might this be a good place to start.

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reply posted on 13-5-2010 @ 04:45 AM by Arbitrageur
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Of those three theories, I seriously doubt that it augments thrust very much, except if the third theory is true which seems more plausible that it reduces drag. I guess you could say that reducing drag increases the "net" thrust.

The theory about scattering radar reflections is also credible.

Maybe it does both, reduces drag and scatters radar reflections. But I'm not finding increased thrust very likely (aside from the reduced drag).


reply posted on 13-5-2010 @ 03:07 PM by Zaphod58
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You won't find any pics up the exhaust. When they allowed me to do a walkaround on a B-2, they said there were two areas I couldn't see. One was the cockpit, the other was the exhaust. The F-117 flew for most of its life before they allowed us to get on a stand above the tail and get a peek at the exhaust. There's a lot that goes on in there to spoof IR sensors that they don't want anyone that doesn't have clearance seeing.
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