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US Secret Plane Uncovered (?)
Gizmodo.com ^
| 12/01/09
| Jesus Diaz
Posted on 12/01/2009 1:23:24 PM PST by Reaganesque
Remember the secret plane spotted in Kandahar? The one that looked like a Nazi stealth plane? Well, it's been spotted again, but this time the picture is crystal clear, and it doesn't look like anything in the US arsenal.
There's a possibility that it may have a canopy above the nose, which means it could be a very small manned plane instead of a UAV. On the other side, it could just be the air intake. Its buttocks look like those of the P175 Polecat, a design by Skunk Works—Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs. Whatever it is, I want one for xmas.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nosecret; oldnews; plane; secret; uncovered; us
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To: Shortwave
The one in the pic at top is smaller. You can tell it’s closer to the ground, and the wheelbase is shorter too. Also, the nosewheel is nearly the same size as the rear gear, whereas the N/G machine has smaller nosewheels, and it only has one, where the NG has duals. Also, if the gear cover is anything to go by, the nosewheel on the one at top retracts differently than the NG.
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:44:04 PM PST
by
Little Pig
(Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
To: Reaganesque
Production version of this UAV?
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:45:04 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: Reaganesque
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:46:01 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: McGruff
What about a small woman? Huh?
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:48:47 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Reaganesque
Point of personal clarification: What are a plane’s “buttocks?”
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
To: Shortwave
Takes all the fun out of having a top secret photo, doesn’t it?
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:51:10 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
Well.....it was about 15 years ago. Don’t know where it stands now.
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posted on
12/01/2009 1:59:14 PM PST
by
RC2
To: Reaganesque
To: Reaganesque
F-117 was retired about 1.5 years ago. Maybe this is why.
To: eCSMaster
Its the rear end of a plane as desribed by someone with a butt fetish.
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:07:26 PM PST
by
Reaganesque
("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
To: null and void
Reminds me of this:
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:09:15 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: SeaHawkFan
Don’t you mean the SR-71?
F-117 is still doing its thing.
To: Bartholomew Roberts
To: Reaganesque
Boeing X-45C-1 Here is an artists rendering of the plane... note the bumps on the wings and the tail configuration.
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:30:49 PM PST
by
derekr44
To: Reaganesque
That is a model rocket plane.
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:31:37 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: SeaHawkFan
Wow, thanks. I hadn’t heard that!
My brother worked at Tonopah for years before Dan Rather told the world about the F-117.
To: The Comedian
You are an essential element in putting many things in their proper perspective. ;-)
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:40:59 PM PST
by
verity
(Obama Lies)
To: Bartholomew Roberts
F-117 is still doing its thing.Is it? I'd heard they retired them.
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posted on
12/01/2009 2:58:50 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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