Message posted by lone wolf on June 16, 2004 at 7:25:46 PST:
I don't recall anyone on the list getting the BOP ID correctly. I recall a post from I believe Tom Mahood commenting on how far off all the guesses were. Indicentally, this line from the POPSI article
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Boeing and the Air Force say only that the airplane tested "new low-observables technologies," but it's more than likely that other techniques—such as lamps or luminous panels for eliminating shadows—were used as well.
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is probably not true since the plane sits in a museum, in plain sight of probably thousands of visitors a year. I really hate when journalists make up stuff to sex up the article. The POPSI article hints that the plane was tested at area 51, but again, there is no public evidence of that.
In Reply to: Re: Bird of Prey posted by Thud on June 16, 2004 at 6:34:23 PST:
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