UW-Stout: High-flying: Alum’s work with Lockheed-Martin takes him into rarified air with F-22, other projects

Barry Bauer remembers the moment early in his career with aerospace giant Lockheed-Martin when his team’s four-year project was put to the test. They had been tasked with designing and developing leading edges of the Air Force F-22 fighter aircraft that would avoid radar detection. When an F-22 vertical stabilizer was mounted on a pole for a radar range test, nothing came back. Only when a bird la...