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Old news. Sorry. :( But cool little plane.
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Very cool 8)
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Yes, old news but still a great plane or will be. Hehehe.
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Crown wrote:Very cool 8)
Yes, and also very old, we had a thread on it the day it was revealed.

The even more interesting thing is, the only reason such would be revealed if the technology level was now considered obsolete...
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i want one...
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Is it me, or does it look more like the NSEA Protector from GalaxyQuest than anything else. :)
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What a curious little vehicle...
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Range can't be too great
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Vympel wrote:Range can't be too great
Yes, where's the fuel going to come from.
Doesn't look like it can glide either.
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Vympel wrote:Range can't be too great
Thus the whole technology demonstrator aspect. I'd bet it's never been more then 50 miles from its airfield.
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i'd bet it's got hotter-than-hell performance, but with the glide ratio of a brick...

add VTOL to it and that thing would truely kick ass...
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Hyperion wrote:i'd bet it's got hotter-than-hell performance
Yup, 300 mph... :lol:
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Where's the cloaking device? :D
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neoolong wrote:Where's the cloaking device? :D
Is a cloaking device even possible?
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dunno. maybe if you wrapped it in pixels, and had a computer change them to match what it saw. prolly would give off a lot of heat tho. -rambles-
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Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:
neoolong wrote:Where's the cloaking device? :D
Is a cloaking device even possible?
It was a joke. Never mind.

Though I did remember hearing something about using computers to copy what would be there if the object wasn't in front, and using some weird particle thing to make the picture on the front of the object.
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They did that to the car in Die Another Day, But considering the images will be in 2D and we see in 3D, a careful eye can spot an object using such a cloak.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:They did that to the car in Die Another Day, But considering the images will be in 2D and we see in 3D, a careful eye can spot an object using such a cloak.
If it's on a plane, how close are you going to be able to get to one to tell that it is using a cloak?
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Hyperion wrote:i'd bet it's got hotter-than-hell performance, but with the glide ratio of a brick...

add VTOL to it and that thing would truely kick ass...
Kind of like the Luftwaffe's Komet from WWII...
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Vertigo1 wrote:Is it me, or does it look more like the NSEA Protector from GalaxyQuest than anything else. :)
Vaguely, perhaps. I think it looks more like a cross between a couple of the prototype jets the Nazis worked on during WWII: the Komet and another one (can't remember the name, but it had a big engine mounted on the dorsal fuselage with the intake right behind the cockpit)...
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