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Gotta See This - Supersecret Bird of Prey [with video]
Popular Science, Boeing ^
| 10/18/02
Posted on 10/18/2002 5:40:54 PM PDT by Diogenesis
BREAKING: Bird of Prey - Supersecret info from Boeing, including video.
[The plane weighs 7,400 pounds and a speed of 260 knots, altitude of 20,000 feet]
[Background from Pop. Sci, video from Boeing].
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KEYWORDS: miltech; weirdshapeplane
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To: Diogenesis
Mr. D, you are simply the best.
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posted on
10/18/2002 9:28:06 PM PDT
by
facedown
To: Diogenesis
Wow!
If we wrap this bird in tinfoil, sprinkle a little holy water over the wings, will it be stealth technology???
62
posted on
10/18/2002 10:04:36 PM PDT
by
aShepard
To: Diogenesis
All I can say is WOW! What a great posting and video!
RAH RAH for Boeing !
To: FireTrack
pilot bump
To: unix
Well, about the time rumors of the Aurora came out, SR-71 was being retired, too expensive to maintain and unnessary. Nothing to replace it. Yeah, right. Skunk Works, those sneaky little Ba$t--d$. Heh, heh.
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posted on
10/18/2002 10:33:30 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: Diogenesis
Toys!
To: Diogenesis
Great looking buggy, I want one! But does not look big enough to mount any thing to shoot with. The body is so small any inboard mounted missiles would have to be small and few of them to boot. But then it only takes one to ruin your day. Perhaps they are planning on using the new Israeli 90 mile launch and leave. It is pretty small...
To: ChadGore
This thing is so small, with almost no wing area for carrying weapons. My bet would be its a Recon bird. The best you would hope for is two to four rockets in the underbelly.
To: Diogenesis
Very cool.
Thanks for the pics!
69
posted on
10/18/2002 11:17:31 PM PDT
by
ppaul
To: tet68
Imagine the 117 in 1977.
70
posted on
10/18/2002 11:27:11 PM PDT
by
herewego
To: vigl
underwent ground tests this year and may have begun flight tests by the time you read this.....Over Iraq
71
posted on
10/18/2002 11:33:58 PM PDT
by
paul51
To: FlyVet
"I'm still waiting for the public unveiling of the Aurora. It was at least 10 years ago that either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics did an article on that."
About 15 years ago I saw what I believe to be the Aurora blasting out of Edwards when I was taking off from Mojave airport, it has existed longer than we know.
72
posted on
10/18/2002 11:39:59 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: dalereed
If that was 15 years ago, by the time Aurora becomes public knowledge there will already be something else flying a lot more capable. Makes my head spin. Art Bell, UFO's.
73
posted on
10/18/2002 11:51:02 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: vigl
Lots of similarity to the X-45 UCAV -
To: isom35
can it fire while cloaked? man oh man, if the klingons get ahold of this...The Klingons would do well to pray for their homeland on Uranus.
To: kayak
PEOPLE will realize far too late that the ID thing is a critical life and death issue. Ah well the frogs are deciding they like hot tubs. . . . so far.
76
posted on
10/19/2002 3:26:44 AM PDT
by
Quix
To: tet68
![](http://www.darpa.mil/ato/images/programs/lokidiag.jpg)
Loki
To: Diogenesis
Oh YES!!!!! Good to see stuff like this. A lot of our retirement money is tied up in United Technology stock(Pratt & Whitney).
To: Diogenesis; B4Ranch; Gregory B
Bump/Ping
To: Brian Allen
Powered by a single engine from a Citation business jet, the Bird of Prey is pure prototype, with a maximum speed of 300 mph and a maximum altitude of 20,000 feet. Its take-off characteristics were "normal, but in slow motion," according to test pilot Joe Felock.
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posted on
10/19/2002 6:34:42 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
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