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Wanna see some cool hardware? Check this out, from the R&D dept at Boeing:

A launch design for sending satellites into LEO using a conventional plane and some rocket science:

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/als.html

Design for the "Blended wing body" - guess what shape? Triangle!

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/bwb.html

This is a weird one - part helicopter, part fixed wing:

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/crw.html

This puppy can hit anything worldwide in less than 90 minutes. Auroraesque, one could say... It's mission - "Control space"!

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/fasst.html

Another triangle - this time unmanned:

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/ucavn.html

Concepts for the next generation space shuttle

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/sli.html

Here are some recently tested unmanned bombers - probably the first in when enemy defences are at their strongest (a kind of triangle/conventional mix shape)

http://www.boeing.com/phantom/ucav.html
 
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those are really buck rogers,that" fasst" is ...fast .Lots of Ufo reports will be coming(have come) from these puppies.
 
I saw a program on the discovery channel a few weeks back that were talking about a few of those bad boys. The dragonfly looks amazing, wouldnt mind one of those for personal use ;)

I just dont believe that these arent in use (be it for testing) after all weve had planes like the SR-71 for years now and you cant tell me they havent been tinkering around with new technology since then. Id love to see what they are keeping secret from us.
 
The BWB is curiously like some German designs from the end of WW2 ;)
 
Do Airbus or the other Euro aerospace companies have any advanced R&D projects/workshops?
I always thought it was a great shame that British Aerospace pulled the plug on their HALO project (High Altiude Low Orbit, i think)
 
I saw on CNN last night a newly declassified Boeing vehicle, declassified only because it was being removed from military service, and had been in operations since the mid 90's. It was nicknamed the 'Bird of Prey' after the Klingon vessel in Star Trek. I can't find any online references to this story yet, but it looked very much like the X-45A shown above.
The report said the plane had only flown something like 38 times, so I wonder what the problem was.
 
wow!!

I just sat here starring at that picture for awhile--how many UFO reports did that thing cause (they say it just flew at night?)..it looks so sf..what else they got..triangles (large) flying triangle blip type aircraft-carriers?..I bet it would blow our collective minds!!:eek!!!!:
 
Evolved said:
I just dont believe that these arent in use (be it for testing) after all weve had planes like the SR-71 for years now and you cant tell me they havent been tinkering around with new technology since then. Id love to see what they are keeping secret from us.

When you consider that the SR-71, X-15, Dyna-Soar, etc. were designed by people sitting at drafting tables with pencils and slide rules....imagine what they must be doing with today's computers.
 
As usual, lots of hype going on - and Boeing certainly need a lift at the moment.

(The Bird of Prey was covered in FT last year - more of a PR exercise to boost share price than an actual aircraft. It was never in military service as it was just a Boeing project.)

For all the fandom, black aircraft tend to be rather unimpressive when it gets down to brass tacks. The SR-71 Blackbird was never as fast as planned and was never capable of carrying out the mission it was intended for - Russian missiles were too dangerous. Satellite reconnaissance made this sort of thing obsolete. The MiG-25, on the other hand, was a huge success and is still in service with several countries...

There have been several projects called HALO, I believe the BAe one was High Agility Low Observable, others have been High Altitude Low Observable. There was some discussion here a while back of BAe's Replica project - basically another PR exercise to persuade people that they knew what they were talking about on stealth.
 
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