Silhouette challenge

[RegDep]

Ahem… All Ah-what-was-this-again-let-me-see cozy elements in it, but then….

Smaller than first thought? (nose wheel???)

Variable geometry? (wing-tips)

????

Edit: Good morning buttrick! Didn't see you were back before posting (had dropped off-line for a while)

[buttrick]

no VG, the dip in the TE is a deflected aileron.

You may have to think quite a way outside the box for this one.

There was a sister ship, (or the same fuseage ,not sure), with a delta wing.

And no not Sukhoi or MiG

[Lightning Mate]

Morning you two.

"Jet man" is looking at this, but not a lot of time this morning.

I see single engine and wing root intakes.

[RegDep]

Morning Mate,

Me feeling more like Jeti in Tibet .

[Lightning Mate]

There seems to be something protruding from the right wing outer leading edge in the shadow which is not evident on the silhouette.

Am I correct?

It looks early 70s too.

[buttrick]

Morning.

Where do you get your Glasses from?????? I want some.

I confess it's a glider

[buttrick]

Didn't see that.

Undercarriage

[buttrick]

ooh forgot

not 70's

[Lightning Mate]

Undercarriage

I don't see any mainwheels, which seems impossible!

[buttrick]

Outriggers?

[buttrick]

recap in case anybody missed something:-

All metal
supersonic
glider
bicycle undercarriage
sistership with delta wing
not 70's

bonus pre 1960

[Lightning Mate]

Outriggers! Are you kidding mate?

That would mean tandem fuselage-mounted main gear and the outriggers would have to be down when the aircraft is on the ground!

[RegDep]

The outriggers are there but un-silhouetted Mate…. Saw them there almost first…

Hold right there! Supersonic? Unmanned glomb?

On a second thought: did you say the SISTERship was a glider, too? No, I don't think so….. So, it may have had engines under the wings…..

[HappyPass]

Morning all!
U.S.A. or U.S.S.R.?

[Lightning Mate]

Unmanned glomb?

Wossa glomb?

If you mean bomb, it seems to have a cockpit/canopy.

[HappyPass]

glomb= GLider bOMB

e.g.
Taylorcraft LBT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[buttrick]

not USA
not USSR
not armed

[RegDep]

If you mean bomb, it seems to have a cockpit/canopy.

So "seem" many UAVs. And if you use the same fuselage as for manned one, why not?

[buttrick]

piloted

[RegDep]

Reposting edit from previous page:

On a second thought: did you say the SISTERship was a glider, too? No, I don't think so….. So, it may have had engines under the wings…..