Pics of F/A-37 Talon (Beautiful carrier based stealth)

globalsecurity.org ^ | 7/26/04

[finnman69]

Wow, variable geometry wing. Notice the pilot is a woman.

[camle]

and a cute on at that!

[finnman69]

unfortunately its not real...

F/A-37 Talon
F/A-37 Talon Pictures
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Hollywood Joins Abe Underway to Film 'Stealth' Release Date: 6/23/2004 1:57:00 PM By Journalist Seaman Michael Cook, USS Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs
"Stealth"
"Stealth"

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This airplane has been making the rounds for several weeks now, with folks being a bit confused as to whether it is the real deal.

On 18 June 2004 a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star movie "Stealth" was filmed on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln was conducting local operations in preparation for an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). About 80 cast and crew members were aboard the Everett-based aircraft carrier to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures action film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Sam Shepard, The $130 million film is expected to hit theaters in 2005.

According to the back story, the F/A-37 "Talon" is a Mach 3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a 4000nm range. Top speed is somewhere in the Mach 4+ range. The movie is premised on an artificial-intelligence program designed to fly jet aircraft and reduce human casualties. Not surprisingly, one of the AI robo-pilots runs amok when Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the “Talon”. When the plane begins attacking friendly forces, Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial intelligence.

[The Wizard]

welcome to the first images of Star Wars

[r9etb]

I'll take one of each.... Yowza, that pilot's a babe!

[camle]

so it's "2001:a space oddessy meets the navy"?

[Southern62]

it's also chained to the deck ...

[xrp]

More like Terminator (Hunter Killers).

[kaiser80]

Imagine a pictorial with her on a carrier....

[GATOR NAVY]

It isn`t real.

``We would like to build a collection of other fake airplanes that have appeared in movies or on TV. If you can help us build this collection, please contact us with the information.``

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/fa-37.htm

[IncredibleHulk]

I noticed the pilot doesn't have a handle. Don't the other pilots like her or something?

[Dallas59]

Does Michael Boore know about this?

[steplock]

DAMN! I had just sent the pics out as a jab to liberals about conservatives showing true non-discrimination.

Now I just had to send out the APOLOGY for FAKE pictures! To the newspapers also!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Fake

[BadAndy]

I doubt it's real. The Navy has no female pilots capable of flying (and landing) such an aircraft off a carrier. The women fixed-wing aircraft pilots on carriers have been a disaster.

[azhenfud]

Man! That's AWESOME!!!

[BobS]

I know it's fake. The tailmount is wrong.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Remember the terrible fake in that Clint Eastwood movie. Firefox? The effects were terrible.

[wmichgrad]

Mmmmmm. Jessica Biel.

[RonF]

A 4000 nm range? Let's see, that's 4 * 10^-9 meters, or about 1.37 * 10^-7 inches. But, hey! It can cover the distance at about Mach 4. So, these pictures probably show an entire flight, since the exposure time was probably a lot longer that it would take the plane to cover the distance.