Mysterious plane over Texas

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Black-and-white image reminds me of the F-117 but really I have no idea.

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I was thinking the X-47

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I was thinking the X-47

Ah the colour photo shows a B2.... blind freddy can see that.
The black and white picture shows a different shape.

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B2 ... no way! angle of the wing is different see silhouette;

[ATTACH=CONFIG]226770[/ATTACH]

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wing sweep looks too extreme to be a B-2. Perhaps an prototype from the NGB program that is being flight tested for LRS-B requirement. Lockheed has several facilities in TX.

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From TimTyler on the same page (AW):

4:30 PM on 3/28/2014

Sweetman & Steve Douglas have a longtime symbiotic (or parasitic) relationship. Douglass magically sees & hears things which he attributes to being part of 'black' programs, and Sweetman eagerly publishes, speculates & pontificates on it. It still usually adds-up to nothing new factually.

Amazing how Douglas comes up with grainy photos, but his claims of associated radio traffic --often very specific dialog -- isn't backed-up by any recordings. Back in the day, he was affectionately know as 'Dark Star Douglas' due to the claim (published in AW&ST) that he intercepted some sort of 'black' aircraft using the Darkstar callsign (which in reality, was & is a standard E-3 AWACS back-end crew callsign prefix).

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Gerard

B2 ... no way! angle of the wing is different see silhouette;

sigh... im sure I speaka gooda English.

THE COLOUR picture shows a B2. The plane is not directly overhead so the "apparent" wing sweep appears different.
Its not rocket science.
The Black and white picture has been altered or is a different picture. The two photos are NOT the same.

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the two photos are not the same. thus the argument is not valid. the first one can be attributed to B-2 Bomber ,the second one looked more like a heavily modified triangle figure [ATTACH=CONFIG]226784[/ATTACH].

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TR-3A is my guess...

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Lockheed has several facilities in TX.

None of which a secret project would operate from...ever been to the ex-Carswell/GD-Lockheed plant? No place to hide it there.

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looks very similar to the Boeing X-48 RC test aircraft.
used to test the concept of a BWB (Blended Wing Body)

http://www.styleofspeed.com/images/air/plane/hybrid/boeing-bwb-ucav-11-01-2002-2a.jpg

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"TimTyler" is a serial troll who exists to slander Douglass - who has not worked on anything much with Sweetman in the last 20 years. So that post means about as much as the witterings of any troll. I see it's gone now.

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I'd love to see Boeing build a BWB for the next tanker contract. Let the US DoD and NASA fund some groundbreaking work for a new generation of efficient transports.

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The grainy photo matches exceedingly well the shape of the Boeing X-45 Phantom Ray.[ATTACH=CONFIG]226820[/ATTACH]

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I'd love to see Boeing build a BWB for the next tanker contract. Let the US DoD and NASA fund some groundbreaking work for a new generation of efficient transports.

Seriously? We'd be lucky to get an adequate amount of conventional Commercial airliner based tankers :)

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From the wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Phantom_Ray_UCAV_on_the_Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft.jpg

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Avro Arrow is revived!!