The Air Force Hid a Secret Stealth Aircraft for 18 Years — The ‘Whale’ Had a Radar Signature Smaller Than a Bat

The Air Force Hid a Secret Stealth Aircraft for 18 Years — The ‘Whale’ Had a Radar Signature Smaller Than a Bat

Northrop’s Tacit Blue Program And “The Whale” Stealth Plane History Has Forgotten About That We Got Up Close To  The Tacit Blue program was a secret DARPA/US Air Force initiative that ran from 1976 to 1985. The program developed an experimental “stealth” aircraft, nicknamed “The Whale,” to demonstrate that curved, low-observable aircraft could monitor battlefield conditions in real time without being detected by radar.  It pioneered curved steal…