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[mvsgas]

I do not know I got the picture from Eglin AFB. I will add the info

[Cali]

Look at the main tires, why is the outside (farthest away) one bigger then the inside (closest)?

[aaron886]

Hah good catch Cali... both to the same degree too... it may well be a composite.

[walker450]

Regarding the F-35: The Navy variant has dual nose wheels. I'm not sure if the door is much different though...

[menendezdiego]

Here are two quick shots I took.

 

 

 

If I get a good enough response, I may post more :)

 

Regards, Diego

[zakobi]

Headcam footage of bomb being defused

[Antartis]

Lockheed's stealth C-130 successor revealed

 

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/09/images-lockheeds-stealth-c-130.html

 

Forty years ago, the US Air Force tried to replace the Lockheed Martin C-130 with a super short take-off and landing (STOL) airlifter, with the Boeing YC-14 and McDonnell YC-15 as the candidates. Then, things got weird. Budgets grew, funding shrank and eventually the requirement transformed into something much larger. Thus, the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III was borne to replace the Lockheed C-141B Starlifter and the Lockheed C-130 continues into its seventh decade of active production.

 

What goes around always seems to come around in this business, and so it is with the YC-14 and YC-15.

 

Meet the Speed Agile. If the USAF is allowed to spend big money on a super-STOL C-130 replacement after 2020, this is Lockheed's idea for what it should look like. Boeing is also working on an alternative concept. The Air Force Research Laboratory has been funding both Lockheed and Boeing to work on wind tunnel models. Last month, the AFRL released these front and rear images of a 23%-scale model of the four-engine Lockheed Speed Agile concept. The wind tunnel model includes two Williams FJ44 engines. The Secret Projects forum found the images earlier today on AFRL's web site.

 

[mvsgas]

Hornet over Michigan

 

 

Thanks, very cool

[tn_prvteye]

Yup, just did a quick copy/paste in Photoshop. The plane on top is pasted from the bottom one and flipped horizontally.

 

Yes, I'm bored.

[hitman]

If you look on the lettering on the nose gear door, youll notice the crew chief name is left off on the one on the runway. Shade is darker on the jawbone on the runway also. Shade angle on the nose door is different.

Edited September 14, 2011 by hitman

[Laurius]

Now I can see it. That explains the strange appearance of the main gear tires (inconsistant different size in & out for both planes)

 

@ Tn prvteye & Hitman : Congrats Dudes, you really have the eye of the tiger :D

 

@ Mvsgas : You really were on something ! Congrats all the way :thumbup:

 

I'm continuously impressed here.... :worthy:

[celticcoho]

WHY??? All the Fakes>>>>Hmmm

[aaron886]

WHY??? All the Fakes>>>>Hmmm

 

Looks good on the home page. I suppose if they're not using it for journalistic purposes, it's no harm, but if they claim that's how it really happened/looked, then that's a little dishonest...

[power5]

No, those are not the same plane. No matter what you do in photoshop flipping or what not, you will not see the other side of the nose wheel with the strut shaft on the runway plane. Unless that was added. To do that at that size you would need a monster sized high res image to not get any obvious pixelation. Also the tail letters are not flipped. Nor is the numbers on the gear door. Thats a lot of PS work to make both planes from the same original. Get a 1000mm lens on a camera and put it on a tripod across the street from this base and the planes will look like they are on top of each other just like on TV when watching football. The linemen appear shoulder to shoulder but anyone who has seen a game in person knows there is plenty of room between them.

 

I think they are actual planes but with enough work they could be chopped.

[Bucic]

F15 Ejection at Supersonic speed

Pilot barely made it. Navigator died instantly.

[BTTW-DratsaB]

Looks interesting. It's pretty amazing how close the HO229 was to our current designs for stealth aircraft. The Axis had some serious talent in the design field.

[combatace]

Looks interesting. It's pretty amazing how close the HO229 was to our current designs for stealth aircraft. The Axis had some serious talent in the design field.

 

Axis?? You mean Germans? I again say there is no wing type flown today which was not tested by Germans in 30's and that I saw it on a program on Discovery channel.

[aaron886]

Looks interesting. It's pretty amazing how close the HO229 was to our current designs for stealth aircraft. The Axis had some serious talent in the design field.

 

That's a bit general. It was a flying wing... that's about the only way this and the Ho-229 are similar...

[hitman]

Well he technially has a point. You cant say the B-2 looks alot like the Ho-229 except in wing design, but you CAN say that the wind tunnel design has an uncanny resemblance to the Ho-229...if you were to mount the turbines inside the leading edge surface of the wing, youll have a plane that looks almost identical to it. The experimental design would be just a whole lot bigger.

[Flаnker]

[mvsgas]

Is that for training or tests?

[Flаnker]

Is that for training or tests?

 

Yes. It is test flight. :pilotfly:

[zakobi]

Taliban and Nato-led forces engage in war of words on Twitter

:megalol:

[DS]

Yes. It is test flight. :pilotfly:

 

И что же они тестят на обычном УБ?

[Flаnker]

И что же они тестят на обычном УБ?

It's Su-30LL:)