Is this USAF’s 4,602mph HYPERSONIC warplane? Google Earth snaps mystery craft in Florida

www.dailystar.co.uk ^ | Published 11th January 2018 | By Simon Green

[Tenacious 1]

It’s a kite.

[Red Badger]

And a fast one..............

[RinaseaofDs]

This is either stupidity, or disinformation.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Looks oddly like my secret decoder ring when I was a kid many moons ago.

[Red Badger]

Or typical British tabloidism..................

[BenLurkin]

Movie prop

[Gasshog]

That’s barely larger than cars parked nearby.

[Red Badger]

It’s probably a prototype for use in the wind tunnel.........................

[Rebelbase]

+1

[Delta 21]

Its painted on the tarmac.

[Rebelbase]

Didn’t the Skunk Works guys used to create models of ridiculous concept planes and leave them out for Soviet satellites to photograph?

[ClearCase_guy]

Hugo Gernsback would like it.

[IYAS9YAS]

Could be disinformation, too. A mock-up of some type.

When the stealth fighter was brand new in the public's mind way back in the early 1990s, I was in the Air Force, and our unit sent a plane to an air show at Mountain Home AFB, and there was a "static display" of a stealth fighter with two armed guards and a roped off area with a shadow painted on the ground. It was just empty space, no plane, but you'd be amazed at the number of folks who came up and thought it was the real deal...

[chemical_boy]

Is roughly twice the length of the white pickup to the bottom left, so it could be 35+ feet long

[JoeVet]

Yes - if you read the decoded message it says ....

“Drink more Ovaltine”

[Reily]

I doubt any plane traveling at 4,602 mph could be manned.
In fact if the CONOPS calls for that kind of speed it would be foolish to man.

[wardaddy]

That’s a tow tractor behind it

It’s no powerboat

[al_c]

Not far from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.

[Nifster]

Looks like a B2B