raratt
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I had been working on her for 2 years at this point. Long video, but brings back memories for me.
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They really have those. Drives me fucking nuts when I hear the U2 come out of Det 42 but I can't see her. I wish they'd also activate noise cancellation when they do that. Oh well trollolol
raratt
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Um, no. It's just that she can gain operating altitude in a very short distance, it's called a Tactical Takeoff. They just spiral up. Hard to see a black airframe also.
Actually we'll have to agree to disagree. They have both visual and acoustical cloaking. They've been developing it up here since 2006/7. Back then you could see artifact, now it's seamless.
doublejj
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When I worked a Boeing in the late 70's early 80's I had security clearance and a building maintenance ID card so I could go anywhere in the plant. I work at Boeing Field where Headquarters was located along with R&D departments. They have an entire hanger used as a model shop. 100's of model builders working on all kinds of mock-ups and wind tunnel test models. I saw things that looked like star wars ships, that years later I recognized as B1-B2-Stealth bombers. There were also things I couldn't describe that I still haven't seen reveled to this day...
raratt
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When I was working the F-22 project I was watching one in a holding pattern with a couple of F-16's. With the vectored thrust capability it flew like no other aircraft I have seen. The 16's would bank to make a turn and the 22 would just kind of pivot to make a turn. I was impressed.
doublejj
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I heard they could just drop out of a turn at will....
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It was today, 60 years ago - May 1 that Francis Gary Powers flew the U-2 - Mission 4154, Operation GRAND SLAM and was shot down over Russia.
Sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison, he served 21 months before traded in February 1962 for Soviet intelligence officer Rudolph Abel in the first and most dramatic East-West spy swap ever to occur in Cold War Berlin.
In August 1956, Francis Gary Powers graduated with the second CIA U-2 class at Area 51 and deployed to the Incirlik...
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16 hrs ·
It was today, 60 years ago - May 1 that Francis Gary Powers flew the U-2 - Mission 4154, Operation GRAND SLAM and was shot down over Russia.
Sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison, he served 21 months before traded in February 1962 for Soviet intelligence officer Rudolph Abel in the first and most dramatic East-West spy swap ever to occur in Cold War Berlin.
In August 1956, Francis Gary Powers graduated with the second CIA U-2 class at Area 51 and deployed to the Incirlik...
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pabloesqobar
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*revealed.
What a cryptic tease. Leaving out the best part. Don't go shy on us now. Are we talking prototypes of aircraft, or something in the men's room? Give us a hint ffs.
doublejj
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It was a long time ago and my descriptions would not do them justice. Prototypes of projects Boeing was working on that never made it into production or has yet to re reveled. Wierd looking crafts with little or no wings or foreword facing wings. Just bazaar looking stuff. Some could have been satellites, Boeing has a space division...
raratt
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I saw the first aircraft shot down by the F-22. White Sands.
raratt
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@GreatwhiteNorth Why sad? It was an F-4 drone.
Now I'm sad. I loved the F-4.
raratt
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Proof positive if you put a big enough engine in an aircraft the aerodynamics don't really matter, AKA the flying rock.
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