Light-Reflection Strategies
By Andrew Parker
Natural selection has produced a wealth of surfaces that interact efficiently with light. Technological applications abound, from better windows to Stealth
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May-June 1999
Volume 87, Number 3
Page 248
DOI: 10.1511/1999.24.248
When the Stealth bomber first appeared in 1988, it was billed as possessing some of the most advanced aircraft designs ever built. The idea of the Stealth was simple: a plane whose design allowed it to evade radar detection because its surfaces could absorb or otherwise slip through the electromagnetic radiation meant to detect it.
Photograph courtesy of Don Herbison-Evans/Macleay Museum. Tom Dunne
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