Lesson 26 — Aircraft RF Signature#
An aircraft's radar signature is not one number but a budget of contributors — cavities, apertures, speculars, edges, and seams. This lesson assigns each one a design verdict and prices the fix with the fourth-root law.
Reading
Aircraft RF Signature
The signature contributors, the shape/mask/treat/manage verdicts, planform alignment, and the loudest-first RCS budget.
FlashcardsReview deck
Key terms and relations from the lesson, in a self-test deck.
Pre-flightPre-flight quiz
Five questions to work before class — anyone can be called to the board.
SlidesLesson slides
The deck we work through in class, as a PDF you can annotate.
DemoPlanform Alignment
Collapse six scattered edge normals into two and watch the loud fraction of the compass fall while the surviving lobes grow taller.