Whats that??????

[Onions]

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/683849/L/

Whats that acft in the top lefthand corner?????

Anybody know??

[RDi]

Looks like a maintenance tent ...

[Rollingthunder]

Yup, static structure or ground vehicle behind a 762 or A300.

[maxmobil]

The bubble atop of the forward fuselage looks exactly like the one the Russians invented to serve as an additional tank for their Tupolev 154 Hydrogen-powered jet studies.

This was necessary to accommodate the liquid hydrogen, and lateron there have been efforts of Airbus and Tupolev together to build a testbed. There has been a Tu 216 flying allegedly, maybe this is a derivative of an A300 with one engine running on liquid hdrogen.

by the way, the color scheme of the airplane on the picture is very much like the old aeroflot scheme.

[Flyingphil]

This testplane is assigned to the NASA but as far as I know still used by Boeing.
I bet it is the B767 with the the least number of Flying Hours and Cycles



Regards
Phil

[mutt]

This B767 was quite usually parked in Boeing Field around 1999-2000, the logo on the side was Airborne Surveillence Testbed. There was also a B757 with an F22 nosecone parked beside it.

Guess that the B767 program didnt get the required funding but strange that they didnt turn it into a doubledeck cargo B767! :)


Mutt.

[PPRuNeUser0172]

Definitely a 767, maybe its for incredibly tall first class passengers????

;)

[wyverns]

research 767 - part of the Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation's research. see this link http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/ast/overview.html

hth

Wyvern

[yazman]

The prototype 757 aslo suffered similar um.. adulteration as part of the F22 development program. It always seems to be parked in the same spot at KBFI whenever I go there so maybe its job is over and it will receive some cosmetic reversal :)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/345794/M/