What do you think of this video..?

I’ve always been a bit intrigued by this video.... what do you think? Does not conform to any known or proposed designs that I’ve seen. Could be ‘strange enough’ to be legit...look at the ‘bird of prey’ for example...

Apologies in advance if this has been posted and debunked before...

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Obviously this aircraft, if not a computer generated image, is propelled and disrupts the air.

a reply to: JEKS1979

a 11 second hoax. clearly clickbaiting.

Looks like a drone, military or public.. no idea

It's an RC plane. You aren't going to catch anything classified at Groom flying in those lighting conditions.

originally posted by: JEKS1979
I’ve always been a bit intrigued by this video.... what do you think? Does not conform to any known or proposed designs that I’ve seen. Could be ‘strange enough’ to be legit...look at the ‘bird of prey’ for example...

Apologies in advance if this has been posted and debunked before...

youtu.be...

The wingtip lights (also known as position lights or navigation lights) are backwards. Red is supposed to be on the left (port side) wingtip and green is supposed to be on the right (starboard side) wingtip. They’re put there so that when pilots see another aircraft at a distance at night they can tell if it’s heading towards them or away. No real aircraft would make that mistake.

a reply to: 1947boomer

I think it was flying upside down

a reply to: Lucidparadox

They generally don't fly inverted for no reason. There's no logical reason for it to be inverted, especially at that altitude. This is nothing more than an RC plane, being passed off as something classified, and they screwed up the navigation lights.

What do I think? (because you asked me)

1. Remote controlled airplane.
2. 11 seconds of my life now GONE forever.
3. Nav lights are not THAT hard to get correct.
4. No, its not an inverted, ultra secret, hard to find, clearance only, black ops kind of plane.

Hey, you asked.

originally posted by: JEKS1979
I’ve always been a bit intrigued by this video.... what do you think? Does not conform to any known or proposed designs that I’ve seen. Could be ‘strange enough’ to be legit...look at the ‘bird of prey’ for example...

Apologies in advance if this has been posted and debunked before...

youtu.be...

Another indicator that this is not a “real” aircraft (by which I mean professionally designed) is the fact that it’s not designed to do anything obvious and useful, other than look cool. Which it kinda does, to be honest.

One big mistake is that big notch in the trailing edge. That does nothing but screw up the spanwise lift distribution, thereby increasing the induced drag, for no apparent reason.

a reply to: JEKS1979

I think it makes me laugh

When I was 15ish in the early 2000s I got into foamie RC planes, this was before you could go and buy a drone off the shelf and multicopters were home built with open source software...

I ended up getting into night flying at the local park and many times had the police come down because people were reporting UFOs lol, I wish I didn't wipe my youtube account now...

Wonder if its one of those cheap fighting RC planes where they deliberately try knock each other out of the sky.They are extremely acrobatic.