Remember my post a few hours ago regarding a photograph of a mystery aircraft photographed over Afghanistan?I'm almost ready to call it a hoax.
To refresh your memory, here is the photo (top), and here is a photo of the LongEZ modified by the AFRL to test pulse detonation propulsion
mystery aircraft, and below it are three photographs the first one from Wiki, and the next two from Mojave Skies (I've mirrored and cropped them to more closely match match the orientation of the mystery pic).
The similarities, cranked wing, large boxy structure under the fuselage, location of the canopy, are all rather striking.
What is missing are the canards, wingtip rudders, and the pulse detonation tubes sticking out the back, but with photoshop/GIMP and some reduction in resolution, I think that the conclusion that it is a faked photograph may be higher on the list.
The aircraft only flew at the Mojave airport, and now sits at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio, and it clearly never shared even the same hemisphere as Afghanistan.
(click pics for full size images)
1 comments :
Looks very close.
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