Message posted by Desert Watchdog (Member since 05/05/2012) on May 24, 2022 at 22:41:11 PST:
To echo CoyoteUgly. I can't think of any public rollouts. As shown by Pete Merlin and history, the U-2 wasn't very secretive, just its' specs, purpose and who for. I'd say the Manhatten Project tried to stay more secretive. A-12 was highly classified and was announced as the YF-12 while they were working the airframe into the air force inventory. Then became the SR-71. It was years and years before most heard of an A-12. The F-117 had been disseminated to the britts before the AF showed their grainy blurry photo of it in a press confereance. But the stealth thing was already a nomer. TACIT BLUE. The white whale. The nickname was known before we ever saw her. The Bird of Prey, again, we knew the nickname, saw a program patch in AWST, before we ever saw her. Everyone who was looking, missed that the plane's actual shape was in the patch.
In Reply to: Re: B-21 Raider postponed to 2023 posted by CoyoteUgly on May 23, 2022 at 16:05:35 PST:
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