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Secret assembly plant begins to start up
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This worried me a little.............
"More than a thousand new employees are working for the time being in rows of temporary trailers, a dozen tan-colored tents and a vast assembly hangar at the desert site near the edge of urban Los Angeles Count" Tents???? How very 1905............... |
A Top Secret factory...
...on a regional airport....... |
Nothing wrong with tents says the guy who has to pay for the permanent structures.
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Originally Posted by pr00ne
(Post 9953942)
A Top Secret factory...
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Originally Posted by West Coast
(Post 9954170)
Nothing wrong with tents says the guy who has to pay for the permanent structures.
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Test & Dev area assigned at Area 51
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Coming to Edwards soon
Just got back from (laughingly) Vegas for Heli Expo 2018 including a nice desert drive to Rachel:E:cool::cool::mad:.
Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing. B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive cheers |
Originally Posted by chopper2004
(Post 10074813)
Just got back from (laughingly) Vegas for Heli Expo 2018 including a nice desert drive to Rachel:E:cool::cool::mad:.
Anyhow came across this story below where the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards soon for official testing. B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive cheers Seems to confirm that the program has been going on for some time quietly, even before the official award (maybe with demonstrators even flying). Going with son-of-B2 was likely smart than the clean sheet Boeing design. |
is supposed to be based on. They haven’t even got to the “iron bird” hanger integration model yet.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/ |
B-21 CTF patch?
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B-21 bomber finishes preliminary design review, and Air Force official is 'comfortable' with progress
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp. The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work," Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas." The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts. "We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program.".... |
AF releases possible B-21 basing
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 10124703)
B-21 bomber finishes preliminary design review, and Air Force official is 'comfortable' with progress
A U.S. Air Force official told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the new B-21 bomber has completed its preliminary design review and that he was "comfortable" with the progress made by builder Northrop Grumman Corp. The bomber is now on its way to critical design review, said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., the military deputy of the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition. Citing the "nature of the work," Bunch declined to go into further detail about how the Air Force planned to spend the $2.3 billion it requested for the bomber program for fiscal year 2019 when asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). However, he said the program was "continuing engineering manufacturing development" and "some of those risk reduction areas." The first set of software for the platform has been delivered, and the program is getting "set up" for the next set of software to come in, Bunch told the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Airland during a hearing about Air Force modernization efforts. "We're making everything ready to begin our test program in the future," he said. "We're making good progress. I'm comfortable today with where we're at, and the progress that Northrop Grumman is making on the program.".... When they closed the west coast BUFF bases at end of Cold War / desert Storm...the likes of Castle AFB, kept Mather and March but took out the BUFFs etc ...one would have thought with tensions in Far East (yes I know Andersen etc are good FOBs) that somewhere ACC now GSC would consider a return to bomber dets say at Fairchild or Edwards or even March? cheers |
Is this another B-2 or is it not
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 10076661)
is supposed to be based on. They haven’t even got to the “iron bird” hanger integration model yet.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018...-wittman-says/ https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/2...or-just-a-b-2/https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...d37f36b9b.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmf...e0102ccd5.jpeg |
Originally Posted by chopper2004
(Post 10232731)
-RP |
Originally Posted by Rhino power
(Post 10232756)
What a load of complete and utter drivel...
-RP [quote author=flateric link=topic=25915.msg335082#msg335082 date=1535162581] How to write several pages of sighting a plane that even not passed CDR... [/quote] Then again, recently BG Schaefer ( CO of 412th TEst Wing) hints that the Raider be officially coming to Edwards for T&E.... Cheers B-21 Raider Officially Heading To Edwards Air Force Base For Testing - The Drive |
Originally Posted by chopper2004
(Post 10233019)
Then again, Brigadier General Schaefer ( in charge of 412th Test Wing) did hint in a speech that the B-21 maybe heading to Edwards sooner than... I was referring more to mathematical equations used and the apparent suggestion of the dimensions indicating it can't be a B-2, all taken from a pi$$ poor, out of focus, low-res, grainy photo taken at night in poor lighting! :ooh: -RP |
So, around seven and a half years after my being sneered at on this forum for doubting the existence of the "Stealth Black Hawk" regarding the Bin Laden operation,there is now another fable growing (which may or may not be true)
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Looks like the Aurora to me...
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Originally Posted by chopper2004
(Post 9981435)
https://theaviationist.com/2017/11/2...ty-at-area-51/
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4547/...cb5ec4d8_b.jpg |
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