{"id":192051,"date":"2009-05-18T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/18\/adventures-in-aircraft-recognition\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:11:00","slug":"adventures-in-aircraft-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/18\/adventures-in-aircraft-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Aircraft Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img413.imageshack.us\/img413\/5361\/drone203thumb493x326350.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img413.imageshack.us\/img413\/5361\/drone203thumb493x326350.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/18913141\/304858216.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/18913141\/304858216.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img394.imageshack.us\/img394\/5831\/scaledpden90ez08013101c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img394.imageshack.us\/img394\/5831\/scaledpden90ez08013101c.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img220.imageshack.us\/img220\/9188\/pdelongezafrl5002286.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img220.imageshack.us\/img220\/9188\/pdelongezafrl5002286.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>Remember my post a few hours ago regarding a photograph of a mystery aircraft photographed over Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost ready to call it a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>To refresh your memory, here is the photo (top), and here is a photo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/pulse-detonation-engine-in-1st-manned.html\">LongEZ modified by the AFRL to test pulse detonation propulsion<\/a><br \/>mystery aircraft, and below it are three photographs the first one from Wiki, and the next two from <a href=\"http:\/\/mojaveskies.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/air-forcescaled-composites-pde-long-ez.html\">Mojave Skies<\/a> (I&#8217;ve mirrored and cropped them to more closely match  match the orientation of the mystery pic).<\/p>\n<p>The similarities, cranked wing, large boxy structure under the fuselage, location of the canopy, are all rather striking.<\/p>\n<p>What is missing are the canards, wingtip rudders,  and the pulse detonation tubes sticking out the back, but with photoshop\/GIMP and some reduction in resolution, I think that the conclusion that it is a faked photograph may be higher on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft only flew at the Mojave airport, and now sits at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio, and it clearly never shared even the same hemisphere as Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>(click pics for full size images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my post a few hours ago regarding a photograph of a mystery aircraft photographed over Afghanistan? I&#8217;m almost ready to call it a hoax. To refresh your memory, here is the photo (top), and here is a photo of the LongEZ modified by the AFRL to test pulse detonation propulsionmystery aircraft, and below it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1007,1025,1152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aviation","category-technology","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}