here is one to keep you busy bees busy

jbell · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:16 am

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 · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11335

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

jbell · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:05 pm

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

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:32 pm

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 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:10 pm

CAPFlyer wrote:

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 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:43 pm

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

And the size of the tail hook is overkill!

jet1 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:52 pm

m50a1ontos wrote:

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

And the size of the tail hook is overkill!

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

:wink:

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