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Jos Heyman said:On 7 April 2006, as part of the Approach and Landing Test Vehicle (ALTV), the X-37A was released from Scaled Composites’ White Knight vehicle at an altitude of 11.3 km to glide back to Edwards AFB in California. During the landing it rolled off the runway, damaging the nose wheel. Earlier, on 2 September 2004, 21 July 2005 and 24 March 2006 captive flights with the White Knight vehicle had been conducted.
Following that the program moved from Mojave to Palmdale, California where, again using the White Knight, five or more additional flights were performed, at least one of which is believed to have been a freeflight with a successful landing.
Does anybody know the dates of these flights.
sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
blackstar said:sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
Wanna bet?
The difference is that this one is interesting--it has wings.
sublight said:blackstar said:sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
Wanna bet?
The difference is that this one is interesting--it has wings.
The difference is that they had footage of this one handed to them. They didn't even have to send a crew out and try...
Not unless it was the real meaning of the Gates "prompt global strike reference".... ;Dsferrin said:sublight said:blackstar said:sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
Wanna bet?
The difference is that this one is interesting--it has wings.
The difference is that they had footage of this one handed to them. They didn't even have to send a crew out and try...
Anybody see anything on the HTV-2 in the MSM?
sublight said:Not unless it was the real meaning of the Gates "prompt global strike reference".... ;Dsferrin said:sublight said:blackstar said:sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
Wanna bet?
The difference is that this one is interesting--it has wings.
The difference is that they had footage of this one handed to them. They didn't even have to send a crew out and try...
Anybody see anything on the HTV-2 in the MSM?
Didn't it fly somewhere yesterday?
Yes its clear now, the Air Force is all "Hey, look at the X-37B" so we wont notice the HTV-2.....
(sferrin, I am just being silly and not mocking you)
sublight said:blackstar said:sublight said:Its funny that CNN makes such a huge deal about it being classified, yet has never had a single story on the likely dozens of black craft that go "bump" in the night....
Wanna bet?
The difference is that this one is interesting--it has wings.
The difference is that they had footage of this one handed to them. They didn't even have to send a crew out and try...
GTX said:If you want a laugh, read this and especially the comments.
I am tellin you, its some kind of propaganda thing to send a message to Iran or somebody....XP67_Moonbat said:Oh you mean the frakkin hippies that think the X-37B is the begining of some space war? Oh sure!![]()
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Yeah OK. It's an X-37, not a frakkin X-wing or Viper.
Some people.
sublight said:I am tellin you, its some kind of propaganda thing to send a message to Iran or somebody....
Because there couldn't possibly be any other secret stuff flying out of area51....
LowObservable said:nine-tenths of the missions for which this kind of vehicle is useful are sneaky (like doing a very low recce pass when the bad guys are not expecting it) or nefarious (disabling a satellite when it's on the other side of the planet from its unsuspecting owner)
LowObservable said:No chance of this thing carrying weapons, nosir....
prolific1 said:Dude...how'd you make the type that big?
bobbymike said:Orionblamblam - I personally hope for US technological superiority, I sleep better at night with X-37's circling the earth and HTV-2's impacting on the Kwajalein Atoll.
You keep thinking these people are being stupid all by themselves.Orionblamblam said:these jackholes mothers and slap them repeatedly until they curse the day they inflicted such brain-dead unthinking meat puppets onto the world.
sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
You're "angry", we get it already.....Orionblamblam said:sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
GASP! You mean that the people running a classified program didn't give all the details to the PR department??? Say it ain't so!!!!
sublight said:You're "angry", we get it already.....Orionblamblam said:sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
GASP! You mean that the people running a classified program didn't give all the details to the PR department??? Say it ain't so!!!!
in addition to post 177 and 183...sferrin said:sublight said:You're "angry", we get it already.....Orionblamblam said:sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
GASP! You mean that the people running a classified program didn't give all the details to the PR department??? Say it ain't so!!!!
How do you get "angry" out of that? ???
sublight said:in addition to post 177 and 183...sferrin said:sublight said:You're "angry", we get it already.....Orionblamblam said:sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
GASP! You mean that the people running a classified program didn't give all the details to the PR department??? Say it ain't so!!!!
How do you get "angry" out of that? ???
LowObservable said:See the image half-way down.
sferrin said:sublight said:You're "angry", we get it already.....Orionblamblam said:sublight said:we have Air Force spokesman Gary Payton telling reporters things like “In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back”...
The controversy isn't coming out of nowhere, the Air Force is creating it.
GASP! You mean that the people running a classified program didn't give all the details to the PR department??? Say it ain't so!!!!
How do you get "angry" out of that? ???
flateric said:LowObservable said:See the image half-way down.
AFAIK, this is PopSci rendering. But I've found bunch of other stuff from back 90s - beginning of 00s
XP67_Moonbat said:Oh you mean the frakkin hippies that think the X-37B is the begining of some space war? Oh sure!![]()
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Yeah OK. It's an X-37, not a frakkin X-wing or Viper.
Some people.
Avimimus said:XP67_Moonbat said:Oh you mean the frakkin hippies that think the X-37B is the begining of some space war? Oh sure!![]()
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Yeah OK. It's an X-37, not a frakkin X-wing or Viper.
Some people.
Every new piece of technology has the potential to be weaponised. There were weaponisation proposals for the shuttle and the Saturn V. You can weaponise an ordinary garden variety of rake - albeit not very well.
However, if you scale it up 15% & straighten and reduce the number of teeth, you could get a reasonably lethal war trident.
I thought hippies were supposed to be naive little flakes who couldn't see the imminent threat of a weaponised Russkie Buran![]()
Not trying to start any discussion of hippies (and their historical existence/non-existence etc.) - but, simply put, human history & past proposals certainly don't work to rule out future military applications of such technology.