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we have a decent amount of evidence that Northrop Grumman's B-2 stealth bomber actually uses Townsend Brown's principles.
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I don't know. I've even talked to some people who are like former Northrop and stuff.
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When Odlem made his investment in Brown in the 60s, he was a majority owner of Northrop before its merger with Grumman.
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Just three months later, Floyd Odlem's Northrop writes a paper saying that they are investing in electro-aerodynamics.
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If you charge the airframe electrostatically, it is said that, and in fact the Northrop paper demonstrated, a reduction in aerodynamic drag.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe it figured out some exotic propulsion tech which Northrop had 20 years to perfect with the B-2 stealth bomber.
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Number one is that the Air Force and contractors like Lockheed and Northrop know a lot more than NASA.
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And this was around the same time Lazar was there. After all, the Aurora was probably Lockheed's answer to Northrop's B2.
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