Mysterious aircraft spotted over Eglin Air Force Base
https://x.com/anthroaerospace/status/1785699760021672124?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ
Mysterious aircraft spotted over Eglin Air Force Base
Mysterious aircraft spotted over Eglin Air Force Base
https://x.com/anthroaerospace/status/1785699760021672124?s=46&t=ySaWSLoZU6lwZ7u03-FcBQ
Can't be that large, the afterburner is from a single engine and the largest afterburning turbofan in use is only around 50" diameter, which means that plane is nowhere near C-130 sized, it should be F-16 sized.
Looks like a supersonic flying-wing design. Designs like this have floated around the internet for years.
>supersonic
Nah, look at the angle from the nose to the wing tips, this thing couldn't hit mach 1.1 without the shockwave interacting with the wingtips.
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/machang.html
the design concept in question would rotate such that the wing tip becomes the nose of the craft for supersonic flight. the entire aircraft would rotate 90 degrees.
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Christ! That looks fake as frick.
Yes
Isn't the komet the craft that had the fuel so toxic it would literally liquefy you if it got out?
Hydrazine plus 100% Hydrogen peroxide if I heard right. Absolute flesh destruction if you only leak one, plus sparkless combustion if they mix.
Just a bird. Nothing to see here citizens.
It's just an Iranian drone captured in Ukraine being evaluated. Please stop asking questions.
Thank you, I thought I was going to have to do it.
According to the guy who took the pictures, the vehicle
>had a canopy
>was black with a grayish tan patch near the top
>was about the size of a C-130
>was about the size of a C-130
God damn what the frick is this thing?
Stealth nuclear kamikaze drone
SR-72?
NGAD?
looks like an afterburner
>was about the size of a C-130
It's impossible to judge the size of an unknown aircraft flying above you by eye unless it's in close formation with another aircraft of known size, or it's at low altitude flying in front of terrain features to allow you to judge its distance
You can tell from the single afterburning engine, unless pratt or GE made some MASSIVE new engine, the largest American afterburning turbofan is under 46" in diameter.
eh... dunno.
there's a possibility that's not a burner in the pic.
really hard to tell with these pics.
unironically though...if there's any type of person that's going to be autistically knowledgable about military aircraft, I'd say a troony furry degenerate airplane spotter is going to be high up on that list.
In 2010 I was swimming at night and there was some kind of aircraft circling above me. It had 3 lights and it didn't bank when it turned but pivoted and would do so in tight circles. It was far too large to be a civilian drone and in 2010 there weren't drones anyways. It made absolutely no noise at all when even small aircraft tend to be pretty loud when flying above you. It was below the lower clouds which I could still see because of moonlight.
I have no idea how large it was. It was anywhere between 15 to 30ft wide. The lights were all equally spaced from one another in a perfect triangle. It was the only mysterious aircraft I've ever seen and was really eerie. The fact it was so low and big but made no noise at all was weird.
This was in sarasota florida about 8 miles from a military airport.
Mushrooms are a hell of a drug.
I saw something in 2011 fly over my parents house in rural Iowa at 10 something PM on a starless night in October. There was a bunch of low flying aircraft flying around in the area at night with their landing lights on afterwards trying to psyop me and anyone who witnessed hoping we would misremember what we saw. Story time.
>go to car to go get beer up the gravel road at a gas station before it closes
>walk to car and see what I thought were two helicopter search lights looking for meth labs or something
>the light isn't right
>the two lights move together and aren't a beam of light
>they are two perfect translucent circles where the overlapping area of the circles is opaque
>the circles get smaller and no longer overlap
>the circles shrink and fade away just as two pure white ovals appear
>then a third uniform white oval appears
>it's approaching me and it's close
>watch it pass straight over me maybe 50 feet above a tree I was next two
>it's 3 perfect uniform white circles like someone took the paint circle tool to a black background
>I have astigmatism
>this light does not appear as streaks of light like all other light sources
>it makes a noise but it is barely audible over the dry rustling of the leaves
>it makes a wirring sound most similar to the sound I would hear in Iraq of gas turbines on a helicopter throttled down from block away but this is way closer
>there is also an audible jet thrust/roar sound but it's bearly audible like it is actively being silenced?
>speed is inpossibly slow like high lift fixed wing slow maybe 20-30 mph
>no navigation lights but one white strobe on top only visible from the illumination of the mist by the strobe
>vague glimpse of the front of the craft from the silhouette produced by the strobe illuminated mist
>no shine from a glass canopy but there was an angularish bulge where I would expect the wienerpit to be
It could have been a helicopter made with stealth technology. I once read that research was conducted on this topic in the 1990s. Its scope included, among other things, reducing the sound emitted by the rotors. Some of the experience from these studies, combined with elements of stealth coatings developed by the air forces, resulted in those Black Hawks used in the Bin Laden Raid.
I was doing an internship in an office building in bethesda maryland last year when I saw what appeared to be marine one fly overhead and I almost didn't hear it at all. every other time helicopters flew over the building they were loud as expected. I wonder if they put that glowie blade tech on marine one.
A bit earlier but when I was a kid in the late 90s or early 2000s my mom and I were walking through our property at night when a similar thing happened. I would also describe the craft as silent and I only saw it from the bottom but it was basically completely curricular from that angle. I didn't see any seems or rivets in it but it was metallic and also had three small rectangular or ovoid lights at the apexes of what would be an equilateral triangle. one light blue, one yellow or green and one red. It hovered just above the canopy of the oak trees which we were standing under. I would place it at roughly 20ft in diameter and 50ft above ground. it didn't move in any perceptible way for about a minute. again it was virtually silent. eventually it accelerated parallel to the ground and we lost sight shortly after because of canopy cover. I have thought about it so many times. we were too close to have misunderstood what we were seeing. We aren't near any military bases, were in a rural area near a major city, and the setting just generally didn't make sense for military testing. the time frame was well before any commercial drones remotely similar to that size existed as far I know. there isn't really any way I can consider the situation without straying into /x/ territory.
It absolutely is possible, most people are just bad at it.
The furry claims it was extremely loud, the likened it to that of a Lancer. Stealth drone seems unlikely.
>Chink stealth drone
>Noisy
checks out
>>was about the size of a C-130
WHAT
It's like a Draken fricked a U2 and the baby came out with elepahntism.
There's few UFO's at Eglin, could be one of them.
clearly a prototype of Arsenal Bird
I work for the airforce. It's literally just a Chinese weather balloon. We are sending our top F-22 ace to down it after it has already floated all the way to the eastern coast and taken all of the readings it needs to
It's a supersonic ISR drone. What, do you think only china is allowed to build these?
Westoids finally copying chinkshit. It really is the begining of the end now isn't it?
lol chinky
Post new and novel designs that arent actually moronic westoid.
NGAD
Ukraine lost.
It's just a Mirage F1, those fly around there all the time.
What the frick is that?
An airplane
Airborne Imaging SAAB testbed MYTHICAL N331CL
Two Testbed Twin Others N614AR & N512AR
Sunshine Aero Sabreliner N66GE
Guys what the frick were they testing?
>testbed MYTHICAL
bros I think it might be habbenin
https://newatlas.com/rotating-bi-directional-flying-wing-design/23982/
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-05-01
Mystery solved.
>Aircraft
>Submarine
Somehow, I don't think that's it
BEHOLD
Somehow, I knew this would be the response. Chopper VX is better.
Maybe it flies and sinks.
University of Miami had a program developing a bi-directional flying wing, it's not a bad fit.
>flying ninja star
I frick with it.
This thing sounds like some ayyy lmao shit. The handling on that has to be mind bending.
>twitter
>Eglin
What's the obsession with Eglin
I wonder if this is the thing talked about in all those Fark/ATS threads from years back.
Dunkeltaler Forest Array does not exist.
Why is it always at Eglin? Just wondering because I used to live in that area of Florida and I have family that still lives there and one of my cousins was stationed there for a while too.
Isn't it the same base where they have some kind of psy-op propaganda wing too?
Eglin Air Force Base is a top location for testing classified aircraft.
Eglin is frickhueg, so there's a lot of space for obscure stuff. There's all kinds of thing squirreled away.
They also have an extensive testing infrastructure -- tracking stations, radar, extensive civilian staff, blah blah. The surrounding area is pretty rural except for the coastal strip, so not many people will notice or care.
96th Test Wing, activated 1994 and with billions worth of cool toys.
Eglin AFB is in the Florida panhandle. Not where I would expect to see this
I will laugh my ass off if it turns out I was the first to guess what this is.
Is Dahir Insaat gonna sue them for copyright?
I wouldn't worry about it.
it's probably just a weather balloon
America wins again
>Subsonic to supersonic mode by rotating the craft
How does that work with the wienerpit?
Looking at the windows on the side of that derpy concept I'm guessing one pilot walks from one wienerpit to the other before transition.
It could work for unmanned systems but I think they are going to run into some interesting aerodynamics when they have to move the centre of pressure in front of the centre of gravity to start the spin and then behind it again to regain stability.
It was weather balloon citizen, look away and keep moving.
>image with no photographic provenance on a furry's Twitter account (who probably started this thread and the one on /misc/)
>67 replies
I'm ashamed of all of you.
Its bullshit, that's what it is
That was me sorry. Please disregard I was getting McDonald
Fake and gay. The furgay claimed to see it again later in the day and got more photos which were against a clear daytime sky despite the fact that the sun should have already been going down at Eglin. Even though the USAF has drones and planes aplenty we've yet to see, this is just a furry on a larp for attention.
Guy's an actual gay making shit up
>Gay furry likes to LARP
who would have guessed
We've got hostiles!