+- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com)
+-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? (/showthread.php?tid=48170)
Pages:
1
2
Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - Grumpyguy - 01-27-2008
If so, what the heck is it?
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - shadow - 01-27-2008
No, it is not.
It is a mockup for a Popular Science article from the 90s.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - shadow - 01-27-2008
Linky: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/boeing797.asp
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - richorlin - 01-27-2008
/yes it is, sort of:
http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6207999-1.html
Boeing's new experimental X-48B
However, the picture you linked to is not real.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - wurm - 01-27-2008
I think it was spotted in Texas recently.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - birdmanjeff - 01-28-2008
The X-48B is a UAV for test purposes very cool but very small compared to a full scale version. This bird is a long way from being a real airplane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edw-2006-X48-061028-01-8.jpg
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/boeingbwb/2252305
by the way if you like flying wings this guy (Alexander Lippisch) was one of the fathers of the design of flying wings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lippisch
along with Jack Northrop the two desighners had a HUGE impact on the design of aircraft in this century.
http://www.warbirdforum.com/northrop.htm
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - JoeH - 01-28-2008
On a side note, is snopes.com getting bad with the pop-up ads lately? Got stuck after opening that link. Found a recent changeout for my PC at work and the associated reinstalls left me with some extra entries on the browzer's pop-up allowed list.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - ztirffritz - 01-28-2008
I have a co-worker who had a screensaver that was the model of that plane in a windtunnel. It was very cool.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - Acer - 01-28-2008
Notice the second one in the back? Different colors, but same wings and engine.
I think the guy who photoshopped it over-reached at that point.
Less is more in a good hoax 'shop....or Popular Mechanics mock-up or wherever it started.
Re: Forum Experts: Is this a real airplane? - Craig - 01-28-2008
What city's skyline is that? It's not in the US.
Craig