Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
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Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
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Re: Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
#2I always thought that when they revealed it they should have published photos of empty sky, saying "Look! There it goes!"
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#3Woah. It's crazy how similar the air frame design is to all of the 5th gen stealth fighters being produced.
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#4One question, in case anyone here knows: if the "1948 'Key West Agreement' (PDF) that put jet fixed-wing aircraft purely in the domain of the Air Force" is a thing, then how come the Navy runs the Blue Angels? https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/
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#5Why link to blogspam instead of the real thing?
Re: Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
#6One question, in case anyone here knows: if the "1948 'Key West Agreement' (PDF) that put jet fixed-wing aircraft purely in the domain of the Air Force" is a thing, then how come the Navy runs the Blue Angels? https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/
It's mainly a poor summary of those agreements, of which the Key West Agreement was only the first. A better way to put it would be that the Army is not allowed to have fixed-wing aircraft, and the Air Force is not allowed to have helicopters. The Navy is just restricted to air operations that support a naval campaign.
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#7Wow, if the design that resulted in those now-well-known aesthetic qualities goes back that far, I wonder what they're thinking is new and cool these days.
Re: Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
#8Why link to blogspam instead of the real thing?
These days it seems that anything that contains an embedded link is "blogspam". Never mind if TFA provides additional information, analysis, insight or context, if it's not "the real thing" then it's spam. Or so you would believe from reading the comments around here.
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#9Pretty cool for the 60s. Even more impressive if they released RCS numbers to compare to the SR-71 and F-117
My first thought is it looks like a cross between the X-47B [0] and the RQ-4 Global Hawk [1]. Interestingly, both of those came out of Northrop Grumman years later.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_H...
Re: Boeing publishes photos of 1960s stealth plane experiment
#10Wow, if the design that resulted in those now-well-known aesthetic qualities goes back that far, I wonder what they're thinking is new and cool these days.
one would wish it. Unfortunately, this contraption was Boeing's F-35 competition entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32