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Old 21st Nov 2011, 13:44
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Gravelbelly
 
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Mach Two - I was working on the project at the time....

...apparently, with the Germans narked at workshare (the FCS, engines, radar, and airframe all by now being British-led) they took on the radome. They hadn't quite appreciated how difficult it was to make an RF-transparent pointy thing that's still strong enough to be thrown about the sky at high speed. When we finally got the results of radar/radome integration, it all went pear-shaped. Refraction's a sod...

They admitted fault (by not meeting the originally-agreed and carefully-written requirement specification) and we provided a solution... there wasn't much of an argument from the radome manufacturer, apparently one of the visual demonstrations of the effect was rather graphic.
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