Unknown Lockheed Helendale RCS facility pole test model (September 2021)

BDF said:
Very interesting though unlikely to have been a pole model of a working design. No way would they be that sloppy. Could be an intentional leak.
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A highly classified test program yet they cannot afford a tarpaulin to throw over a test model. Seems unlikely.
 
It is a reduce mock up of a plane ? this size is too small ... It seem 5/6 meters in lenght.
 
Flyaway said:
BDF said:
Very interesting though unlikely to have been a pole model of a working design. No way would they be that sloppy. Could be an intentional leak.
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A highly classified test program yet they cannot afford a tarpaulin to throw over a test model. Seems unlikely.
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Don’t underestimate general incompetence
 
bobbymike said:
Flyaway said:
BDF said:
Very interesting though unlikely to have been a pole model of a working design. No way would they be that sloppy. Could be an intentional leak.
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A highly classified test program yet they cannot afford a tarpaulin to throw over a test model. Seems unlikely.
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Don’t underestimate general incompetence
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Or just blow mind of China with lost picture :D I don't believe it is on Tik Tok for mistake
 
 
Well stealth planes are supposed to fly high and the pole increses rcs from below
 
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Remember this from when it blew up on social medial (Tik tok?) as a 'classified aircraft leak'..only to have it then be spotted at several gas stations in New Mexico and Texas..or something like that. :D
 
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overscan (PaulMM) said:
So, like, the sky is at the bottom of the picture and the ground at the top. Even 'down under' this is regarded as upside down.

This is the correct orientation.View attachment 765076
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Somewhere I have video and much better photos of this. It has fixtures for attaching to the pole both on top and bottom. As far as I’m aware this particular shape was not photographed at a gas station.
 
I'm pretty sure this was posted somewhere on the forum when that image came out around 4 years ago.
 
Found it...

Probably not, but could it be an RCS model of the Lockheed NGAD?

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No, it couldn't. It could be, meantime, new LM RCS range polecap.
 
Hood said:
I'm pretty sure this was posted somewhere on the forum when that image came out around 4 years ago.
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That was probably the X-47B. It was moved back and forth across the country between testing at Edwards AFB, California, and NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. Lots of people took pictures and video and the craft (which was covered and had its wings removed), cling the government was transporting a flying saucer.
 
bring_it_on said:
I must have confused with another..but somewhere on the forum is a discussion on that and this one as well from when it popped up.
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Yep it's on here somewhere, i remember it too, but damned if my google foo can find it
 
bring_it_on said:
Remember this from when it blew up on social medial (Tik tok?) as a 'classified aircraft leak'..only to have it then be spotted at several gas stations in New Mexico and Texas..or something like that. :D
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I've been told of an occasion when bored base engineering personnel knocked something together from wood and canvas and arranged for it to be 'accidentally' exposed to the spotter fraternity before being hurriedly dragged back inside the hangar ;)
 
Whisperstream said:
That was probably the X-47B. It was moved back and forth across the country between testing at Edwards AFB, California, and NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. Lots of people took pictures and video and the craft (which was covered and had its wings removed), cling the government was transporting a flying saucer.
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X-47B in 2011.
Shape in initial post - 2021
 

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