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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Is it for real?
Keywords: stealth
Message-ID: <80155@sun.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 88 23:42:22 GMT
References: <696@sas.UUCP> <749@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <6335@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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In article <6335@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
> In article <749@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> pcp2g@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Philip C. Plait) writes:
> >In article <696@sas.UUCP> sasbrb@sas.UUCP (Brendan Bailey) writes:
> >[stuff about a Honda commercial with Stealth bomber deleted]
> >
> >>   Now is this real?  I just can't believe that this could be the real
> >>thing.  Is the government ever gonna release photos of this thing and
> >>if they were, would they let a car company use it for a ad?
> >>   Could this be a fake prototype?
> 
> 	Yup.  Papier Mache, or some such substance, possibly.  Definitely not

Steel tubing frame with sheetmetal/plywood skin.  They didn't want the
wings to sag and didn't have the budget to make more than one try.