Drool over this jet fighter model. Here is a fictitious jet aircraft for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star motionpicture called "Stealth". See websites below.?id=15363?id=15329These pictures had some people at the aircraft company that I use to workfor, and me wondering if they where real. We were snookered, I did see amovie camera in the over head photo with the wing swept forward (which Ithought the wing was swept forward for storage).I thought it was a design concept called "switchblade" that I read about afew years ago in Popular Science. The photos contain most of the designfeatures. is funny how Hollywood used a little from the movie Firefox {front end),the Northrop prototype F-23 (back end and canted vertical stabilizer) (whichlost out to the Lockheed F-22 Raptor) and the fictional model of the F-19(jet exhaust) from Testors for some of it's features. It also looks like amodified F-117 that Lockheed proposed to the Navy several years ago.Mel

Actually, if you look at the hi-res images, you can see that it IS in fact a full-scale mock-up of an airplane sitting on a real carrier deck. The giveaway is that it chained down and chocked on the cat.I was fooled too...at first - the cameras wouldn't be out of place for a test aircraft undergoing initial CV testing...but there is a giveaway there also...the camera crew (and some of the additional personel on deck) aren't wearing cranials...Actually, it looks far more like the planform of the proposed Naval variant of the YF-23 than of the A/F-117X. Yes - there was an NATF study that died with the YF-23, which was the ATF proposal. It was a canarded configuration with a butterfly tail, but with the wings aft and fixed. This mock-up is somewhere between that, and Sci-Am's Switchblade. Nicely done, though...someone did their homework here.This wouldn't be a hard model to scratch build...hmmnnn...

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Jul 08, 2004 24 Replies

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Rufus 22 years ago

I'll pass on the movie, but I'd build a kit of the jet. llike it or not, it's spot on.

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m.gary.kroman 22 years ago

I though Rob would go, just to see Jessica Biel. I would an I would build the jet too. :D

Gary

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Rufus 22 years ago

Personally, I think the jet is WAY more sexy than Ms. Biel...but then, I'm an aerodynamicist...

...and Jess doesn't even know I'm alive.

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m.gary.kroman 22 years ago

Well I was a drafter at a big airplane company that starts with a (Mc)B, until they laid me off in 2002 after 29 years. The jet and Ms. Biel both have sexy curves, which I would like to lay out. :D I differently know Jess doesn't know I'm alive (sigh).

Gary

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Rufus 22 years ago

They've still got me...

...and Jess doesn't...:(

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