Skunk Works Hopeless Diamond Experimental Stealth Aircraft 3D Printer Model
The file 'Skunk Works Hopeless Diamond Experimental Stealth Aircraft 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 1.6MB.
The file 'Skunk Works Hopeless Diamond Experimental Stealth Aircraft 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 1.6MB.
In the mid-1970s, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) began investigating how an aircraft's radar signature might be minimized by faceting its exterior. One of the Lockheed Skunkworks' contributions to this effort was the "Hopeless Diamond," a proposed tail-less stealth fighter with a fuselage composed of sharply angular panels. Radar tests on a 10-foot model resulted in a radar signature "as small as an eagle's eyeball." Although an operational Hopeless Diamond was never built, lessons learned in its development were eventually incorporated into the F-117 Stealth Fighter.
This is my creative interpretation of what the Hopeless Diamond may have looked like based on drawings and information I've found. Stealth pole included!
Enjoy!
| hopeless_diamond_frontlandinggear.stl | 81.2KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_fronttire.stl | 37.8KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_fuselage.stl | 1.8MB | |
| hopeless_diamond_fuselage_gearup.stl | 1.6MB | |
| hopeless_diamond_nose.stl | 118.0KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_nose_gearup.stl | 96.6KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_pegs.stl | 23.1KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_rearlandinggear_L.stl | 78.2KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_rearlandinggear_R.stl | 78.1KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_reartire.stl | 75.1KB | |
| hopeless_diamond_stealthpole.stl | 316.7KB |
