From: stealthman@iglou.com   
      
   On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:14:11 -0400, STEALTHMAN    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >I Invented Stealth Shapes   
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   >[snip previous up to]   
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   >     This statement became paper # 11 in   
   >US Patent 4,066,226 filed in May, 1977.   
      
          I continued to test the concept using red hot oven   
   elements looking at the reflection at different angles,   
   it was all very clear that a big part of avoiding radar   
   was to eliminate the all-direction reflections and   
   even try to concentrate each reflection into as small   
   a beam as possible.   
      
         I was hoping that paper #11 would get something   
   going to start implementation of the technology, the   
   memory of 700 US pilots getting off the planes coming   
   back from Hanoi POW prisons was a thing always on   
   my mind, and here was a hope that it would not happen   
   again.   
      
         I received a copy of the letter NASA sent to the   
   patent office saying from the information I put in   
   paper #11, NASA would not exercise rights under   
   the Space Act of 1958 to take my airfoil patent.   
      
        After the airfoil patent issued in 1978, I began   
   planning the preparation of a patent application   
   for stealth shapes, and immediately named the   
   application "Electronic Avoidance Configurations",   
   because I felt it also applied to active infra-red.   
      
        Spring went to summer to fall, and I continued   
   to have a reluctance to put any details on paper,   
   it was clear to me that this technology had to   
   remain a secret, and for  a long time.   
      
        But I started to worry by November 1978, as   
   I could not wait a year to file for the flat surface   
   faceted shapes, patent law says after one year   
   in public view puts the invention in the public domain.   
      
        Then a relative began to insist I visit the hospital   
   450 miles away, and I was torn between leaving   
   right away, or somehow filing a patent application   
   first.   
        I already had the oath filed out and notarized,   
   and the other required elements except for the   
   disclosure specification.   
        I just couldn't concentrate on making drawings   
   and writing all the details of the theory of avoidance   
   and the shapes more effective than flat facets, so   
   I just mentioned paper #11 as the heart of the   
   invention.   
      
        I got it all together and mailed in registered mail   
   on December 22, 1978. and the next day went on   
   the trip to visit the relative in the hospital, and stayed   
   there 3 weeks.   
      
        I couldn't stay any longer, I had to go home and   
   pay bills, and I was anxious to get the receipt for   
   the patent application   
      
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