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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:06:24 AM EDT
What is this in the middle? Something experimental perhaps? I've never seen this profile.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:08:23 AM EDT
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It's an Espresso machine.....
No, it's a snow cone maker..... |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:09:08 AM EDT
[#2]
Dikfer
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:10:19 AM EDT
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Henway
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:10:25 AM EDT
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A4 maybe?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:11:53 AM EDT
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Size, vertical stabs and shape look like a Hornet body with no wings. Two motors where a Hornets are. Maybe has a cover of some sort on it?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:12:32 AM EDT
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Looks like an SR21 missing it's wings..
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:13:09 AM EDT
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De-winged and de-horizontal stabilizered F/A-18.
Plane on the left is obviously a Scooter. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:13:54 AM EDT
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Size, vertical stabs and shape look like a Hornet body with no wings. Two motors where a Hornets are. Maybe has a cover of some sort on it? This is what I was thinking, but the nose looks kinda off to me. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:14:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Size, vertical stabs and shape look like a Hornet body with no wings. Two motors where a Hornets are. Maybe has a cover of some sort on it? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:14:57 AM EDT
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Things that make you go HMMMMM... Doesn't look to familiar to me. But I think it had wings at one point.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:15:36 AM EDT
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This is what I was thinking, but the nose looks kinda off to me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Size, vertical stabs and shape look like a Hornet body with no wings. Two motors where a Hornets are. Maybe has a cover of some sort on it? This is what I was thinking, but the nose looks kinda off to me. Hmm... yeah, the wing roots would be further back. I retract my F/A-18 assessment. Must be some NASA experimental thing. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:17:27 AM EDT
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NASA did fly Hornets......too small for a Superhornet. I think. The shape of the left vertical stab is exactly a Hornet stab though. As are the ECS ducts on the spine, although that's a Rhino thing....
The nose is odd. I'm going with some sort of test F/A-18. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:22:17 AM EDT
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Here's this for direct comparison.
Looks pretty close to me. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:25:22 AM EDT
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A-4 40' long
Superhornet 60' Hornet 56' |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:40:24 AM EDT
[#15]
Lawn dart?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:41:41 AM EDT
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It definately looks Super-Hornet "ish".
Looks like the SH fuselage from the cockpit back. Maybe some sort of wind tunnel mule, or avionics testing platform, used during development and stored away just in case? -Tim |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:43:26 AM EDT
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It look like something trying to achieve higher mach speed.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:50:22 AM EDT
[#18]
MiG-29 with no wings. Look at the shape of the tops of the vertical stabs.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:50:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:51:29 AM EDT
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It's an Espresso machine..... No, it's a snow cone maker..... Is it a water heater? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:51:45 AM EDT
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MiG-29 with no wings. Look at the shape of the tops of the vertical stabs. No, Fulcrum vertical stabs are straight up and down. Only a Hornet has the cant like this pic (and a Raptor I guess but those are obvious). |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:52:42 AM EDT
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Tag. Interesting. To those that are knowledgeable on these kind of things, does the exhaust cause you scratch your head?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:53:28 AM EDT
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I'm going with some creative cocoon covering of an F-18 body minus wings to screw with people trying to figure out what it is.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:54:49 AM EDT
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De-winged and de-horizontal stabilizered F/A-18. Plane on the left is obviously a Scooter. Could it be the YF-17 prototype? |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 3:05:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2015 3:07:59 AM EDT
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Object in the pic is 49.6ft. ETA: according to map measure app. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 3:13:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2015 3:29:20 AM EDT
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Full size wind tunnel model for testing airflow into the F-18's engine inlets, which are on the bottom and can't be seen.
Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 4:34:34 AM EDT
[#29]
F117 no wings?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 4:36:22 AM EDT
[#30]
Aurora Jr.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 4:47:40 AM EDT
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Perhaps a phone call to the bone yard will provide a definitive answer I think we are all looking for.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 4:53:03 AM EDT
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its a weather balloon
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Posted: 1/28/2015 5:07:57 AM EDT
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It's a partially-disassembled hornet wrapped in a plastic tarp
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Posted: 1/28/2015 5:08:36 AM EDT
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 Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 5:44:36 AM EDT
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Quote Historynot sure if serious.... but if not, the scale is totally off if you compared it to the scooter. Well that and the fact that all the -71, YF/A-12's, are accounted for and that an sr-21 is not real. ETA: your right its just a hornet. They have it wrapped up and the foward leading edges are probably just some type of bracing they used at some point to keep it toghether or off the ground or for transport or whatever. Who knows how much is still intact besides just sections of a shell. Besides if it was that interesting like a testbed or NASA bird or something, someone who have posted pics of it from the ground, or we'd hear a story about it sitting out there. simplest answer is generally correct. its a very cool find if you were just messing around and saw it though. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 5:56:04 AM EDT
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At Amarc? Coords?
I'll ask around. My guess is some test bed project. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:06:49 AM EDT
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HG-549 Airbuss from the '60's
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:07:05 AM EDT
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It's scrap, so move along
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:11:35 AM EDT
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Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:16:56 AM EDT
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It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg The light and shadows are playing with you. It's symmetrical, your line is off. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 6:33:39 AM EDT
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The light and shadows are playing with you. It's symmetrical, your line is off. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg The light and shadows are playing with you. It's symmetrical, your line is off. Possibly, but it shows the same with the Hornet overlay. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:22:05 AM EDT
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I can't find the pic, but NASA did take one of theirs and put on huge leading edge root extensions on one plane for high angle of attack research, the things did almost go to the tip of the nose.
This could be that plane. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:25:17 AM EDT
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De-winged and de-horizontal stabilizered F/A-18. Plane on the left is obviously a Scooter. This and it has various coatings and fairings placed over it for preservation purposes, which gives the appearance of altered shape. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:33:35 AM EDT
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Possibly, but it shows the same with the Hornet overlay. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg The light and shadows are playing with you. It's symmetrical, your line is off. Possibly, but it shows the same with the Hornet overlay. Camera angle The camera was NOT directly overhead, stretching and distorting the lines |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:34:19 AM EDT
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F18 with parts missing
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:35:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... Overlay is not a f-18 I believe it is of the above Boeing x-53, and I believe that is what it is |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:37:26 AM EDT
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Overlay is not a f-18 I believe it is of the above Boeing x-53, and I believe that is what it is Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... Overlay is not a f-18 I believe it is of the above Boeing x-53, and I believe that is what it is Once again, yes it is an F-18. The shape has been distorted by the addition of protective fairings. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:37:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeah, close, but the "shoulders" are way too wide and extend to far forward for an -18, as the pic shows. Everything else though.... It gets funky and asymmetrical on the front. The nose isn't even on the center line. http://oi57.tinypic.com/2isi9mc.jpg The camera is not directly over the object. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:43:52 AM EDT
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NASA test article with wings and h - stabs removed. And for the record the X 53 is an F18.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 7:46:14 AM EDT
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Aliens
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