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Originally posted by easynow
...it's possible the parts of the craft we are seeing, might be part of the propulsion system that doesn't cloak. i dunno, just a guess.
....better yet , who's driving it ?
Plasma Actuators:
AFRL is laying the groundwork to develop revolutionary hypersonic aerospace vehicles. Researchers are examining the feasibility of replacing traditional mechanical actuators, which move like wing flaps to control an air vehicle’s flight control surfaces, with plasma actuators that require no moving parts and are more reliable.
As part of the Boundary Layers and Hypersonics program, AFRL conducted a wind tunnel test to evaluate the feasibility of using plasma actuators for airframe flight control. In AFRL’s Mach 5 Plasma Channel wind tunnel, engineers used a strong electric field to ionize air around an air vehicle model to create plasma. The plasma-heated air successfully exerted force on the model and demonstrated that the plasma actuator concept is a viable area for further study and development. The program focuses on characterizing, predicting, and controlling high-speed fluid dynamic phenomena, including boundary layer transition; shock/boundary layer and shock/shock interactions; and other airframe propulsion integration phenomena such as real-gas effects, plasma aerodynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, and high-speed flow heat transfer.
(Mr. R. Kimmel, AFRL/VAAA, (937) 656-7868)
Abstract:
Some imaging tasks and modalities (e.g., interferomet-ric SAR) require managing a dynamic spatio-temporal configuration of sensors (whether electro-optic or RF) over a wide area. One promising approach is to mount each sensor on a separate unpiloted vehicle, and endow the population of such vehicles with the ability to con-figure themselves and coordinate their actions to create and maintain the required sensor configuration. This paper describes some scenarios where such a capability would be useful, identifies technical issues that need to be addressed, suggests general principles and techniques that we have found useful in dealing with such scenarios, and describes a specific example that we have constructed and tested in a simulation environment.
Issues:
Coordinating multiple UAV’s for such sensing scenar-ios requires spatial and temporal coordination and the alignment of distinct roles within the team. Spatial co-ordination distributes units over the area being ob-served, and includes such tasks as determining the maximum spread between vehicles and the minimum acceptable number of revisits per unit area, assigning sectors to each unit, causing a team to converge in a specific location, or stationing UAV’s in a particular formation. Temporal coordination ensures that all UAV’s act at the right time or with the right frequency, provide their input at the right moment, and assume their designated locations and operating roles at the right time for the constellation to work as a whole. Team co-ordination seeks to optimize the assignment of individual vehicles to roles in terms of their preferences or constraints (e.g., the configuration of individual vehicles), managing the formation, coordination, maintenance, and dispersion of groups of vehicles.
Conventional (non-autonomous) approaches require humans to fly each UAV. This approach is costly both in terms of manpower and (since all communications must go through the control center) bandwidth, and in addition can be a difficult cognitive task. Autonomous coordination among the aircraft permits the use of local nearest-neighbor communications (reducing band-width), and our experiments show that simple local algorithms can yield robust self-organization sufficient to satisfy these missions.
I see you've posted that Ohio Triangle.....I was looking for that the other night. Now I can review the earlier threads.
Do you have any comments regarding that Ohio object?
m sorry, but in the russian video, if you cant see the star thats not even moving i feel its deliberate or you must actualy have problems with tour sight!
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by Ram
LOL, thanks Ram for doing the "mentally Deranged post a picture" thing for us and sharing your story ! any other sightings since then ?
[edit on 3-3-2010 by easynow]
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by Maybe...maybe not
I see you've posted that Ohio Triangle.....I was looking for that the other night. Now I can review the earlier threads.
Do you have any comments regarding that Ohio object?
hello MMN, here is the link to the Ohio thread..
www.abovetopsecret.com...
maybe it's a better idea if you go look at the thread and let us know what you think about it before hearing my comments ? maybe not ?