we have a decent amount of evidence that Northrop Grumman's B-2 stealth bomber actually uses Townsend Brown's principles.
I don't know. I've even talked to some people who are like former Northrop and stuff.
When Odlem made his investment in Brown in the 60s, he was a majority owner of Northrop before its merger with Grumman.
Just three months later, Floyd Odlem's Northrop writes a paper saying that they are investing in electro-aerodynamics.
If you charge the airframe electrostatically, it is said that, and in fact the Northrop paper demonstrated, a reduction in aerodynamic drag.
When Marcus searched for the Northrop paper on electro-aerodynamics at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, he found that it had totally vanished.
After decades of classified work on the B-2 stealth bomber, and maybe some investigation into Townsend Brown's work, Northrop's premier stealth vehicle was revealed to use an electrostatic effect in its wings, producing a Byfield-Brown effect.
And the B-2 was built by the merged Northrop Grumman, whose major investor Floyd Odlem was the same guy that invested in Townsend Brown's company Guidance Technologies in the 60s.
Maybe it figured out some exotic propulsion tech which Northrop had 20 years to perfect with the B-2 stealth bomber.
Number one is that the Air Force and contractors like Lockheed and Northrop know a lot more than NASA.
And this was around the same time Lazar was there. After all, the Aurora was probably Lockheed's answer to Northrop's B2.