Mystery plane! - New stealth fighter

By the way the plane design is heavily borrowed from a Northrop patent. It
was given the name of switchblade by Internet people when patent appeared
back in 1995 as far as I remember, and there are plenty of digital mockups
of it around.

Todd Pattist wrote:

I thought some of you might like to see our new stealth
fighter:

The plane in these pictures is still officially Air Vehicle
Number 1, a prototype on board the USS Washington for
catapult fit checks. It's not exactly top secret, but
certainly not public info. To be known as the F/A-37.
Although specs are classified, it is believed to be a Mach
3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range), super-cruise stealth
fighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4000 mile
range. Awesome!

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-37on_deck.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-A-37_cat1.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...A-37_pilot.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...37catapult.jpg

Look at the pictures first ;-)
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* Hollywood Joins Abe Underway to Film 'Stealth' Release
Date:
6/23/2004 1:57:00 PM By Journalist Seaman Michael Cook, USS
Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs


This airplane has been making the rounds for several weeks
now, with folks being a bit confused as to whether it is the
real deal.

On 18 June 2004 a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star
movie "Stealth" was filmed on the flight deck aboard the
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
Lincoln was conducting local operations in preparation for
an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry
docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). About 80 cast
and crew members were aboard the Everett-based aircraft
carrier to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures action
film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Sam Shepard, The
$130 million film is expected to hit theaters in 2005.

According to the back story, the F/A-37 "Talon" is a Mach
3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a
4000nm range. Top speed is somewhere in the Mach 4+ range.
The movie is premised on an artificial-intelligence program
designed to fly jet aircraft and reduce human casualties.
Not surprisingly, one of the AI robo-pilots runs amok when
Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the
?Talon?. When the plane begins attacking friendly forces,
Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial
intelligence.

I looked up the movie "Stealth" and it looks like a July
release next year.
That female pilot is Jessica Biel. Sam Shepard and Jamie
Foxx are in the movie.

Debunked!




"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and
skill." Wilbur Wright