Re: Battle blimps

At 9:38 PM -0400 4/17/02, Richard and Emily Bell wrote:

>
>It depends on the relative sizes of the gasbag and antenna array. 
>You are going
>to put the array inside the gasbag, so drag is a non-issue.  If 
>there is enough
>room in the gasbag, you mount the array in an inside-out anechoic 
>chamber.  The
>walls come down to unmask the antenna when the radar is operating, 
>and come back
>up when the radar is off.

A composite semi-rigid could do this quite well. A Composite rigid 
could do it really well given the internal support structure.

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