Accidental post of black aircraft pic on web- anybody catch this before it was removed?

While searching for some airplane clip art to make an icon out of, I google image searched for "aircraft" or something generic like that... To my surprise, I saw a pic on a personal website of a Navy officer that had some digital cam snapshots of an aircraft that was doing some catapult tests... Now, I'm an aerospace engineer, and I'm very familiar with military and civilian aircraft, spacecraft, and the like...

This particular aircraft almost looked like what some people said the F-19 looked like... However, it was a rounded delta wing aircraft with no vert stabilizer or empennage of any kind. This rounded delta wing had a W shaped profile... It had hard edges on the panels and very high speed engine inlets, albeit not for near-hypersonic flight. It certainly had the characterisitcs of a futuristic composite stealth-capable fighter/interceptor.

DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH THIS, OR COULD POSSIBLY CLARIFY? MAKE ME FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT... I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT IT WAS!

Defining characteristics in pics:

-Catapult test
-Female Test Pilot
-Wavy 'W' Delta wing
-No tail

Help!



[edit on 25-9-2004 by hooptey]

this sounds like another post .... it was a plane in some sci fi movie .. i cant find the post for some reason but ill keep looking until someone else puts a link for it

www.abovetopsecret.com...

this what youtalking about?

Why was it 404'ed by the next day when I went to look for it... Even the google cache was cleared... That's what piqued my interest the most... Deep crawl and webpage gone on the same day, conincidentally... Very possible I guess.

I can't find the pic that I found in the threads, but that certainly looks alot like it... The pic I saw was on a sunny day and the aircraft had a dark green tint to it, I thought... Anyway, if it's the F19 or the switchblade, a coverup, or just a movie, it just proves that I don't watch enough TV.

It sounds like you're talking about the plane from the movie "Stealth." It's a fake...

www.aerospaceweb.org...

I think it was called the F-37 talon in the movie

www.globalsecurity.org...
says

"This airplane has been making the rounds for several weeks now, with folks being a bit confused as to whether it is the real deal.

On 18 June 2004 a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star movie "Stealth" was filmed on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln was conducting local operations in preparation for an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). About 80 cast and crew members were aboard the Everett-based aircraft carrier to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures action film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Sam Shepard, The $130 million film is expected to hit theaters in 2005.

According to the back story, the F/A-37 "Talon" is a Mach 3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a 4000nm range. Top speed is somewhere in the Mach 4+ range. The movie is premised on an artificial-intelligence program designed to fly jet aircraft and reduce human casualties. Not surprisingly, one of the AI robo-pilots runs amok when Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the �Talon�. When the plane begins attacking friendly forces, Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial intelligence.

We would like to build a collection of other fake airplanes that have appeared in movies or on TV. If you can help us build this collection, please contact us with the information. "