Senior Peg

 aircraft, drawings, projects
Mar 142009
 

After the effort involved with working out the planform of the Senior Peg RCS model, here’s the end result. Top row shows the evolution of the B-2, from earliest sketch to final product; bottom row shows the two “Senior Peg” configurations. Configuration at left is highly speculative (even more so than the one on the right), based on a vague and essentially unsourced image that made the press some years back.

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 Posted by at 11:15 am

  3 Responses to “Senior Peg”

  1. Pat Flannery says:
    March 14, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Another image was from the March, 2005 issue of Popular Communications:
    http://www.dreamlandresort.com/black_projects/senior_peg.html

  2. OM says:
    March 14, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    …Scott, wouldn’t the tailfin on the bottom left concept work better if it were slanted a bit more? It seems a bit too perpendicular to the radar for a supposedly stealth concept.

    (Hi Pat!)

  3. Pat Flannery says:
    March 15, 2009 at 6:40 am

    That’s about the angle they are at on the F-117.
    The whole designs bears a resemblance to a scaled-up version of the naval F-117 concept, minus the horizontal fins: http://www.afwing.com/intro/f117/f117p92.jpg
    This would make sense, as Ben Rich stated that their B-2 proposal owed a lot to the F-117’s design.

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