Message posted by Sundog on July 10, 2004 at 22:12:36 PST:

And for quick reference, The BoP was used to test new and rapid manufacturing techniques and materials and was reportedly used to test daylight stealth applications. You can now see it at the USAF Museum in Dayton Ohio. Yes it's manned.

Many of the technologies, such as the wing construction and other technologies were then incoprorated in the construction of the X-45. A larger version of the X-45 (originally a semonstrator for Boeing and the USAF), the X-45C, is now under construction and will compete with a scaled up and slightly reworked version of the Northrop X-47 (Originally a demonstrator for Northrop and the Navy with the purpose of showing how an unmanned combat aircraft would integrate into the operation flow of CATs and Traps onboard a CV), to become the definitive UCAV for the USAF and US Navy. Think of it as sort of a JSF without the pilot or the fighter mission (Just attack) ;)

In Reply to: Re: Bird Of Prey posted by lone wolf on July 10, 2004 at 10:09:25 PST:

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