On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:38:31 -0400, Kenneth Edmund Fischer
<stealthman@iglou.com> wrote:

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:37:45 -0400, Kenneth Edmund Fischer
<stealthman@iglou.com> wrote:

       I thought I had scanned paper number 14, it just says
NASA would probably not try to take rights under the Space
Act of 1958.

       After mailing paper number 11, I waited until December 22,
1978 before mailing a patent application for flat surfaces, and
it was not until Feb. 13, 1979 that the Air Force hand carried
the Lockheed "Vehicle" patent application to the patent office
and had two supervisory attorneys rubber stamp it in, and then
(as I understand it)  the Air force put it in their vault until 1993.

       There is plenty of funny stuff that followed to make a book,
but maybe too much time has passed, 35 years is a long time,
and the flat surface planes are all in ready storage.

       It is hard to believe that when I joined the Army Air Force
in January 1946, the Army had at least 200,000 airplanes, but
now the Air force is having a problem getting even 200 of 
one type operational.

Ken