Boeing builds Bird of Prey. Really. :)
Posted: 2002-11-28 10:31pm
But cool little plane.StarDestroyer.Net BBS
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Posted: 2002-11-28 10:35pm
Old news. Sorry. But cool little plane.
But cool little plane.Posted: 2002-11-28 10:44pm
Very cool 
Posted: 2002-11-28 11:23pm
Yes, old news but still a great plane or will be. Hehehe.
Posted: 2002-11-28 11:23pm
Yes, and also very old, we had a thread on it the day it was revealed.Crown wrote:Very cool
The even more interesting thing is, the only reason such would be revealed if the technology level was now considered obsolete...
Posted: 2002-11-29 01:17am
i want one...
Posted: 2002-11-29 01:41am
Is it me, or does it look more like the NSEA Protector from GalaxyQuest than anything else. 
Posted: 2002-11-29 01:43am
What a curious little vehicle...
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:00am
Range can't be too great
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:01am
Yes, where's the fuel going to come from.Vympel wrote:Range can't be too great
Doesn't look like it can glide either.
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:10am
Thus the whole technology demonstrator aspect. I'd bet it's never been more then 50 miles from its airfield.Vympel wrote:Range can't be too great
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:15am
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...
add VTOL to it and that thing would truely kick ass...
Posted: 2002-11-29 04:26am
Yup, 300 mph...Hyperion wrote:i'd bet it's got hotter-than-hell performance
Posted: 2002-11-29 01:35pm
Where's the cloaking device? 
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:46pm
Is a cloaking device even possible?neoolong wrote:Where's the cloaking device?
Posted: 2002-11-29 02:53pm
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-
Posted: 2002-11-29 03:59pm
It was a joke. Never mind.Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Is a cloaking device even possible?neoolong wrote:Where's the cloaking device?
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.
Posted: 2002-11-29 04:05pm
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.
Posted: 2002-11-29 04:25pm
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?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.
Posted: 2002-11-29 09:56pm
Kind of like the Luftwaffe's Komet from WWII...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...
Posted: 2002-11-29 09:57pm
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)...Vertigo1 wrote:Is it me, or does it look more like the NSEA Protector from GalaxyQuest than anything else.