here is one to keep you busy bees busy

[jet1]

[jbell]

This busy bee thinks it's an artist's rendering of McDonnell Douglas's chitcanned A-12 "Avenger II"? Also known as "The Flying Dorito"....John
...............kinda looks like one of those newfangled "UCAV's" too!

[bdk]

A-12 had a pilot (and hence a cockpit).

[jbell]

When I first looked I thought that was a cockpit, "hence" artists rendering.

[CAPFlyer]

You're still right on the artist's rendering, but it's a rendering of the Boeing X-45C/N UCAV-N which should have made its first flight last month.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... c-pics.htm

Sadly, as this aircraft is now in classified production development, all of the active pages on the Boeing Website have been taken down.

[Bluedharma]

You're still right on the artist's rendering, but it's a rendering of the Boeing X-45C/N UCAV-N which should have made its first flight last month.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... c-pics.htm

Sadly, as this aircraft is now in classified production development, all of the active pages on the Boeing Website have been taken down.

Time for the wayback machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070524042434/www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/military/x-45/x45photos.html

[m50a1ontos]

No way that spindly twig like landing gear would survive landing on a carrier deck

And the size of the tail hook is overkill!

[jet1]

No way that spindly twig like landing gear would survive landing on a carrier deck

And the size of the tail hook is overkill!

route, and the stories would start flying...oh well!