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Old 27th Jan 2018, 07:41
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FlightlessParrot
 
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Originally Posted by gums
Hey Bubba! ORAC! Others....


That sucker looks like it has the combined cycle propulsion that Lockheed touted a few weeks back. Looks like two intakes, and the conventional turbjet/turbofan lup higher than the other intake. Sucker also seems stealthy design.

Gums wonders.....
That's how I saw the picture at first, but I think if you look again it's an illusion created by the glossy surface of the ? radome on the upper surface of the nose, and the tones of the B+W picture. I think there's just the one intake.
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