Is this the shape of the new mysterious stealth jet spotted over Texas?

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Did a group of aviation enthusiasts snap a photo of the military's latest top-secret airplane?

By  Leada Gore  / on March 31, 2014

A group of aviation enthusiasts in Texas may have caught a glimpse of a new top-secret military aircraft.

Steven Douglass and his group were plane watching March 10 at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport. It's a popular gathering spot for airplane enthusiasts, with past sightings including the F-22 Raptor.

On that day, however, the group spotted something new and different.

"We looked southwest and there they were," Steve Douglass, a journalist and member of the group, told FoxNews.com. "We thought they were B-2s, but when we studied our pictures, we ruled that out."

The group saw three planes flying about 20 miles from their location and took pictures with 300mm zoom cameras. Douglass said after looking at the photos he realized the trailing edge on one of the planes is not the same as a B-2 bomber and soon realized he may have spotted a new military plane.

Aviation Weekly, which was the first to report about the sighting, said the photos are "more than a random image."

"The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn't than what it is," Bill Sweetman wrote in a blog post. "The size is very hard to determine, for example, although the image size at contrailing height suggests that it is bigger than an X-47B. However, the basic shape - while it resembles Boeing's Blended Wing Body studies or the Swift Killer Bee/Northrop Grumman Bat unmanned air system - is different from anything known to have flown at full size, lacking the notched trailing edge of Northrop Grumman's full-size designs."

Sweetman said related voice traffic picked up from the planes suggest it was a piloted aircraft as opposed to a drone. Possibilities for the plane include an aircraft that's capable of a high-precision strike attack through electro-optical targeting and laser guidance.

If the photos do show a classified aircraft, it wouldn't be the first time such a program has been uncovered by civilians. In 1956, British citizens began reporting seeing an unknown aircraft in the sky. It was later identified as a Lockheed U-2 plane making spy flights over the Soviet Union from an air base in England. Then, in 2007-2009, civilians captured images of an RQ-170 Sentinel ini Kandahar, Afghanistan before that program was declassified, Sweetman wrote.

You can see some designs created by the Aviationist using the latest photos here.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/03/did_a_group_of_aviation_enthus.html

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Is this the shape of the new mysterious stealth jet spotted over Texas?

Mar 30 2014

By David Cenciotti

Some blurry pictures taken from the ground are all we know about a possibly new, unknown, U.S. stealth jet. Based on those images we have tried to figure out the shape of the mysterious plane.

On Mar. 10, 2014, three mysterious planes were spotted over Amarillo, Texas, by Steve Douglass, Dean Muskett and few fellow photographers.

The analysis of the photos shot by Douglass and Muskett showed something interesting: the aircraft was almost boomerang shaped and, based on the contrails, it was equipped with two engines (or at least two exhaust nozzles).

One of the images, seemed to show a loose resemblance with the B-2 "batwing" bomber, whereas another one, highlighted a shape reminiscent of an X-47B UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) killer drone.

As done years ago with the famous Stealth Black Hawk exposed by the Osama Bin Laden raid at Abbottabad, based on the grainy images available, I worked with artist Ugo Crisponi to create an image that melted the various details that could be guessed by the shots taken by Douglass and Muskett.

Therefore, the one you can see in this post is a possible shape of a large 6th Generation (probably manned) aircraft, seen over Amarillo; a Black Project, inspired by the B-2 Spirit and F-117 Nighthawk, with inputs from more recent UCAVs designs.

What do you think?

Zie link voor het plaatje

http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/30/mystery-aircraft-shape/