There is still one flying in the UK. I saw it about 5 years ago at an airshow over the Southport Sands and it was impressive to see up close.
Posted on 03/29/2014 4:03:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
first time.
Aviation Week & Space Technology journalist Bill Sweetman has posted photos taken March 10 by two veteran sky watchers, Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett.
In his blog post of March 28, Sweetman writes that he and two Aviation Week editors agree that the photos depict "something real." In other words, these pictures aren't easily explained away by reports of known military flights or the work of someone who got carried away with Photoshop.
So what can aviation experts say about the object in the photos?
"The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn't than what it is," Sweetman writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
F-117
Yup, that was one of my thoughts, too. But, something just doesn’t look right... Maybe it’s the angle of the satellite image and the shadows... I don’t know. It’s just weird.
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By the way, did you notice that the mystery aircraft (the one that is the main story for this thread) looks a LOT like Barnes Wallis’s Swallow when the wings are swept back towards the rear? (It was a Variable-Geometry aircraft like the B-1b).
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/BarnesWallisSwallowSST.htm
Cheers!
Scram-Jet? Almost looks likie the exhast patterns of a V-1 Could be a drone? A re-enigineered ship from Roswell?
F-117s are all retired.
There is still one flying in the UK. I saw it about 5 years ago at an airshow over the Southport Sands and it was impressive to see up close.
I think you’re right. The silhouette is vague in the grainy photo, but there is a distinct “pinched” look to all three sides of the basic triangular shape that would be created by an X-47.
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They are Lockheed D-21 Mach 3 drones as picture earlier on a SR-71 and B-52.
From wiki -
A total of 38 D-21 and D-21B drones were built with 21 expended in launches. The remaining 17 were initially stored at Norton Air Force Base, California, then moved to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base “boneyard” near Tucson, Arizona,[24] in 1976 and 1977. With the base open to the public, the D-21 drones were quickly spotted and photographed. The Air Force called them GTD-21Bs with the GT standing for Ground Training.
One is also on display at the Evergreen Museum on OR.
Can’t be the missing Malaysia flight; everyone knows THAT was captured by aliens and taken to Alpha Centauri 4.
It could be the aliens themselves, scouting for more airliners.
Yeah. Either a phantom ray or rq170; similar UAVs.
Flying around in daylight because the aren’t exactly unknown.
Ok, so it didn’t come out of the Lockheed plant in Ft. Worth.
The it’s probably in transit from somewhere else - a USAFB undoubtedly.
Big deal, ho hum. Well be seeing more and more of these for the rest of our lives as the USAF transitions to a networked drone force model.
Not an f117 nor a B2. Most likely a undisclosed stealth spy plane. A great photo!
It would be interesting to see the plane putting out the twin contrail.
If it’s larger than the plane shown then that would lead me to believe the pictured plane is a drone.
If same size or smaller... tippity toppity secret flying dorito .
I was referring to yarddog’s photo in post #32.
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