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This Unidentified Plane Flew Over California. The Air Force Won't Admit It Exists.

送信時刻：3 ヶ月ほど前

A photo of what could very well be the Air Force’s shadowy RQ-180 spy drone recently appeared—and disappeared—from Instagram. The image depicts a flying wing-shaped aircraft leaving a contrail in its wake. An observer reportedly took the photo while the aircraft was over the Military Operating Area at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (www.popularmechanics.com) さらに...

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Frank Lewis 3 ヶ月ほど前 17

Hey I was part of the SR-71 program in the early 60's and I still don't admit it exists.

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Steve Cutchen 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

...opps!

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Steve Cutchen 3 ヶ月ほど前 4

uh, I mean "oops"
<sigh>

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AWAAlum 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

Probably what you actually meant is: "oops, I mean oops"

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Timothy Clark 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

Umm... You just did. Better get your memory oblation device. I won't forget lol.

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Tommy The Shibe 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

Lmao

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darjr26 3 ヶ月ほど前 22

When I look closely I think I see “Amazon Prime Air” on one of the wings.

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Charlie Roberts 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

Winning the comments!

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craigbell1941 3 ヶ月ほど前 7

Anything can, will, and has been seen flying above EAFB over the years, it is after all the largest military testing facility in America. The ghosts of Yeager, White, Armstrong and Manke still haunt the Happy Bottom Riding Club.

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s s 3 ヶ月ほど前 7

Yeager isn't dead and let's hope that American hero and patriot stays that way for a long time to come.

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Michael Setera 3 ヶ月ほど前 6

That was just a heavily modified C-172. Nothing to see here, move along...

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paul gilpin 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

what's the matter with you?
that's a weather balloon.
get your stories straight.

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Charlie Roberts 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

I disagree, its a stick some kid threw.

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Michael Meyers 3 ヶ月ほど前 6

Give it six months and China will have developed a knock off copy.

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Suresh Mukhi 3 ヶ月ほど前 5

The truth is UP there. :)

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Mark Zagar 3 ヶ月ほど前 4

High altitude spy drone with a contrail :-)

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Bill Butler 3 ヶ月ほど前 0

Yeah, and the contrail was "approximately 20.000 feet". Huh?

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Julio Von ACK 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

yes

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Ben Bosley 3 ヶ月ほど前 4

It's clearly swamp gas

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Jim Highfill 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

That reflected off of Venus.

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Bill Butler 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

In my short life, this is the longest one of these continuing threads has gone. And it's been delightful! Thank you all for a fun time. A6 SEA.

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WhiteKnight77 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

That is an interesting looking UFO for sure.

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Jim Smirh 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

"The RQ-180’s existence has never been confirmed by the U.S. Air Force." That's only because the gears of the military grind exceedingly slow.

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Roger Anderson 3 ヶ月ほど前 5

In other news, I flew a kite over socal, but I've yet to go on record to admit it was a kite.

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paul trubits 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

You just did.

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AWAAlum 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

Thanks, Captain Obvious

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mdburd 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

When I was in high school, my dad was at MCB Barstow--Edwards flyovers were a daily occurence. Got to see several interesting aircraft.
Actually, an Edwards Flight Surgeon gave me my first flight physical before going off to ERAU-PRC nearly 30 years ago... :-)

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AWAAlum 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

Even I, as naive as I sometimes am, find it hard to believe it doesn't exist when there are photos of it. Silly ole' Air Force.

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lynx318 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

I see the F-35 replacement prototype is up for testing already.

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JASON AWID 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

Dang some of you guys are making me laugh so hard ...keep it up ! :)

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Emmett Moorhouse 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

I think it looks more like an RQ-180 than the B-21. I’d love to know for sure what it is though!

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Ralph Wigzell 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

It was an AK-47 or a Glock or a weather balloon.

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iffmode4 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

C'mon Bentwing, oxygen is recommended above 10,000 ft MSL to counter the effects of hypoxia.Descend a 1000 ft or strap on the LOX

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Dave Mathes 3 ヶ月ほど前 1

...come on, it's California...!

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ReverendLee 3 ヶ月ほど前 -1

Well the good thing is that scrolling to the bottom of the page gave me to a link to another article that bashed the F-35. So it wasn't a complete waste.

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bentwing60 3 ヶ月ほど前 -7

P.M. soldiers on for a crowd that ,historically, wouldn't recognize anything under 'the hood' we used to 'pop'! Think Holly carburetors. I ate it up as a kid and a guy wrote a how to reply/article that appeared whenever, entitled "Say, Smokey", penned by none other than "Smokey Yunick", A pre-woke NASCAR legend in his own time. P.M. forever!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick

Yawn, doesn't that airfoil on steroids look like something out of a Mojave hangar where Bert used to hang out? I know, Jack is in there somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Northrop

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Dave Mathes 3 ヶ月ほど前 5

...not sure what you're babbling about but I did have the honor on chatting with 'Smokey' when I was a student at ERAU back in the 70's....

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bentwing60 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

"Come on man", I made a simple comment about 'Americana', and P.M. and 'Smokey' ain't exactly household names here so, this is a chat board and I rang a new bell for the "I never knew that crowd". If you had another vote I would be gone again. Another PA. vote? (Show anyway) the path to the most exposure you twit! For whatever agenda. Pluck the vote, the libbies said so.

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WhiteKnight77 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

Smokey was a legend for sure. Many learned about how engines worked and could be made more powerful by him. That he is virtually unknown to but a few nowadays is sad.

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James Simms 3 ヶ月ほど前 3

Smokey was a B-17 pilot flying 50 missions over Occupied Europe in “Smokey and His Fireman”.. A Yunick improvisation was getting around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank, by using 11-foot (3 meter) coils of 2-inch (5-centimeter) diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 gallons (19 liters) to the car's fuel capacity. Once, NASCAR officials came up with a list of nine items for Yunick to fix before the car would be allowed on the track. The suspicious NASCAR officials had removed the tank for inspection. Yunick started the car with no gas tank and said "Better make it ten," and drove it back to the pits. He used a basketball in the fuel tank which could be inflated when the car's fuel capacity was checked and deflated for the race.

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WhiteKnight77 3 ヶ月ほど前 2

Yeah, a lot of rules in NASCAR are due to his skills. ;)

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IAOA 3 ヶ月ほど前 -1

So????
....AND???

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