New Boeing Phantom Works UAV unveiled

a reply to: RadioRobert

maybe that is just a temporary faring,

but i'm thinking that the faring is at its lowest setting, and it actually can reshape/push itself further into the airstream dependent on RPM and speed of aircraft.

especially as it accelerates, the air turbulence at inlet is critical to keep sustained supercruise possible, ie... for this aircraft just barely 1.1-1.2M

originally posted by: anzha
a reply to: RadioRobert

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Sure doesn't look like there's much else that could be an inlet otherwise...admittedly, that is a crummy photo, but...

Best picture yet.

Between this, the object of the mystery tweet tease, and saying that the demonstrator dates to before the requirements change, I'm batting a thousand so far on Boeing news...

a reply to: RadioRobert

haha!!! I was right. intake exactly where I said it should be.

a reply to: BASSPLYR

It was literally written on the aircraft. I was sort of surprised there was any sort of debate.

Trying to make the RAM air inlet the engine intake was... Weird...

a reply to: RadioRobert

wait...it was written on the side of the aircraft?...you mean...im not a genius?

a reply to: BASSPLYR

The options aren't mutually exclusive!

a reply to: BASSPLYR

"Jet Intake Danger" with lines wrapping over the top of the fuselage to the exact same words on the opposite side. Who could have imagined it was a nearly flush, dorsal, intake?

I'm pretty sure you knew this, and the profile shots showed a flat section on top that looked out of place.

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Those nodules on the wings sensors or hinges?

Cheers
Robbie

a reply to: stratsys-sws

Most likely hinges.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Yeah I thought so too at first, but perhaps they're the drogue pods?

The requirement is that it has to use off the shelf pods already in inventory. And the demonstrator predates the emphasis on tanking. So the safe money is on it containing the wing-fold mechanism. Though it'd be an interesting place to try to stow a drogue and reel.

I thought we had a more recent thread on the MQ-25 than this. I guess I was wrong.

That said, Boeing's borked another tanker with delays:

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a reply to: anzha

You should see the T-7.