"NM5K" wrote in message ...
Art Unwin wrote:

if it was possible they would
already have done it.

And he is right. They have only had about 100 years to work
on it.

Yes. In the 1950's the USAF studied small antennas for the "new" Boeing
707's that they were buying as C-135/KC-135. I remember reading about it in
one of the magazines of the time. They apparently were not entirely happy
with the antenna that projected forward from the top of the stabilizer.
They continued to employ a belly-mount trailing wire on some aircraft at
least into the 1980's. (Good info hard to find.)

If all the money the Air Force could throw at a problem didn't come up with
some magic, do we have a lot of hope???