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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:26:41 PM EDT
I was playing around on Google Maps today and found this. At first glance, it has the shape of an F-18 but the forward fuselage is completely wrong. While searching for possible candidates I came across this article from 2015. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/a-new-angle-on-this-shadowy-stealth-f-a-18-hornet-conce-1727910676
Here is its location at AMARC: 
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:40:50 PM EDT
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Well it could be several things, a parade float, a joke, a prototype, perhaps a part of something bigger.
My database registers insufficient data. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:42:30 PM EDT
[#2]
A radar cross section test shape.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:49:53 PM EDT
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This was my first thought....
Boeing Bird of Prey BUT the article says that it is hanging in a museum. So, not sure. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:50:20 PM EDT
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A broach. Or a pteradactyl.
LC |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:52:52 PM EDT
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This was my first thought.... Boeing Bird of Prey BUT the article says that it is hanging in a museum. So, not sure. That's a different project in the photo. Pole model. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:55:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:56:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:56:48 PM EDT
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Its amazing the rabbit hole you can go down once you start looking for answers. I don't remember ever hearing about the A/FX program:
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:57:54 PM EDT
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Mohawk on the right. Obviously an alien ship in the middle.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:58:51 PM EDT
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Done. Appears to be a defunct F18 Stealth Variant
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1161511/pg1 As posted above probably something to put on the pylon at the radar range. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:58:56 PM EDT
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This was my first thought.... Boeing Bird of Prey BUT the article says that it is hanging in a museum. So, not sure. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 10:59:14 PM EDT
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Is that what you do with your free time? Google map random places?
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:01:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:03:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:04:19 PM EDT
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Done. Appears to be a defunct F18 Stealth Variant http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1161511/pg1 As posted above probably something to put on the pylon at the radar range. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:04:31 PM EDT
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There was a thread on this a few years ago.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:04:39 PM EDT
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Done. Appears to be a defunct F18 Stealth Variant http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1161511/pg1 As posted above probably something to put on the pylon at the radar range. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:18:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryIt's what's left of an F/A-18. Probably one that is otherwise in fairly good shape, or it wouldn't be wrapped. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:23:45 PM EDT
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Everyone that believes that is part of an F-18 should look at the close up photos at the link.
It's a model of a single engine vehicle cut out of whole cloth. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:25:34 PM EDT
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What do I make of it? A hat. A brooch. A pterodactyl.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:26:47 PM EDT
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Looks like some of the Scram Jet designs I have seen over the years.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:29:14 PM EDT
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Everyone that believes that is part of an F-18 should look at the close up photos at the link. It's a model of a single engine vehicle cut out of whole cloth. Judging from the nose and the waist, it's a supersonic cruise missile model. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:34:00 PM EDT
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What's in those boxes ?
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:38:40 PM EDT
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A rudimentary pole model. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:42:26 PM EDT
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It’s very white.
It must be racist. |
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:44:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryInteresting that there is so much detail on the vertical stabilizers for what is otherwise a vanilla shape.
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Posted: 11/16/2017 11:53:51 PM EDT
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The bow looks like it would cut through water nicely.
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Posted: 11/17/2017 9:01:19 AM EDT
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Oh, look...Tyler Rogoway again.
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Interesting that there is so much detail on the vertical stabilizers for what is otherwise a vanilla shape. |
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:32:23 PM EDT
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Obviously whatever was being tested needed that kind of detail in the vert stabs, but not in the rest of the fuselage. Antennas, perhaps? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Interesting that there is so much detail on the vertical stabilizers for what is otherwise a vanilla shape. |
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:35:19 PM EDT
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Dickfer.
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:41:43 PM EDT
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Interesting that there is so much detail on the vertical stabilizers for what is otherwise a vanilla shape. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/187084/f18-365091.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/187084/f18-365091.jpg Kharn |
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:45:32 PM EDT
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Its amazing the rabbit hole you can go down once you start looking for answers. I don't remember ever hearing about the A/FX program: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/187084/afx-365040.jpg 
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:47:57 PM EDT
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If you're only looking at the tails of one or more aircraft, why bother making a more complex shape to attach them to? Kharn Quote HistoryQuoted:
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/187084/f18-365091.jpg Kharn |
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Posted: 11/17/2017 8:52:07 PM EDT
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I don't know, but it looks like the Russians already know about it
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Posted: 11/17/2017 9:05:03 PM EDT
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We should f*ck with the world and with Goggle Earth by making fake fuselages, mothball them and then let some intelligence analysts waste hours on figuring out what we're up to.
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Posted: 11/17/2017 9:47:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/17/2017 10:30:36 PM EDT
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We should f*ck with the world and with Goggle Earth by making fake fuselages, mothball them and then let some intelligence analysts waste hours on figuring out what we're up to. |
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Posted: 11/18/2017 6:48:17 AM EDT
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To establish the correct ground plane. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/187084/f18-365091.jpg Kharn 
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Posted: 11/18/2017 6:50:29 AM EDT
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I'm fond of cardboard tanks, trucks, and flat airplanes on the damp. That last diversion doesn't work well these days. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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We should f*ck with the world and with Goggle Earth by making fake fuselages, mothball them and then let some intelligence analysts waste hours on figuring out what we're up to.
Kharn |
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