Originally posted by THENEO
I love ATS, according to most people around here, every pic is automatically fake and every conspiracy is automatically not one. LOL!

^Best statement in this thread. I really miss his posts. You da man!

[Edited on 3/24/2004 by Bangin]

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A blackbird on the U.S.S. Nimitz? How can this be?

The first picture in this post was simply a blackbird being towed probably for an airshow. Notice the stripes on the center lane are white instead of yellow. Typical military way to cut money. I was in the Air Force for 6 years. I've seen a B-52 being towed on one of the main roads on a base I was stationed at. They take up 4 lanes with wings hanging over both sholders.

[Edited on 24-3-2004 by dbates]

This one looks a little more realistic than the first one but I don't think it's real though. If it's on an aircraft carrier than it's a fake because SR-71's need along runway to land. Much longer than an aircraft carrier.

Originally posted by mrmulder
This one looks a little more realistic than the first one but I don't think it's real though. If it's on an aircraft carrier than it's a fake because SR-71's need along runway to land. Much longer than an aircraft carrier.

It isn't even an SR-71. It's a A-12 that is on the deck of the Intrepid, the floating museum in New York City. They got it there with a crane and a barge.

The original picture is real. If you do not believe me look it up in the book "Skunk Works."

I don't even have to think twice to tell you it's fake.

A) The Air Force usually would fly the plane to it's destination.
A2) Emergency landings would probably be in some sort of field to reduce casualties if any.

B) I don't think if they were transporting is via highway... the roads would be open surely they'd be prepared for it.

C) I think an SR-71 Blackbird is too heavy for a little highway like that.

for some reason, the pictuer did not appear in my message, but if you click on the link you will see the picture i tried to place in there

Ahh, I love this thread! It is one I saw early in my ATS career and it caught my interest enough to start making posts of my own, Thanks for bringing it up again. One of these days I will have the motive, the means, and the opporpunity to really investigate the aircraft.

[edit on 5-9-2004 by Spectre]

I see no reason for this to be fake. I live about an hour from Wright Patt Air Force museum. The place is totally surrounded by freeways, I would expect they'd need to tow an aircraft between the main display area to the annex where they start to do conservation work. I'm not saying this pic is in Ohio, just trying to explain the logic to the pic.

This looks like a B-2 but it's different from such things
It's very probable that it's fake

Out of interest 2 things:

1) Why wouldn't they load it on the back of a truck or something to speed up the transportation? Or shove it in the back of a 747F with the wings taken off or something?

2) What on earth is the difference between the A-whatever it was and the SR-71? I can barely tell a difference!?!?!!

That photo is real.
The American military machine has finally realised they cannot spend $100 for a screw,etc.
So, when they found out gas was 50 cents cheaper off the base...........

I believe it to be real. I have seen things like this at Davis-Monthan AFB where they mothball aircraft. It is being towed to a storage area. No big deal.

This place is hilarious...
Near the top of this thread someone pointed out that this was a plane being towed to a museum... and then we had another 40 posts that asserted that the photo was fake.

Sometimes I wonder if only ten percent of posters read the threads they are replying to...

Fake. The shadows on the cars all head to the right of the picture, while the shadow of the plane does not, even thought the plane itself is actually somewhat oriented to the right the shadow is also a much more higher quality than the rest of the picture. Also note how the road changes colour.... these look like they are two pictures overlayed onto themselves with poor editing being done. There's now way in the world a road could ever be coloured like that

Originally posted by onlyinmydreams


This place is hilarious...
Near the top of this thread someone pointed out that this was a plane being towed to a museum... and then we had another 40 posts that asserted that the photo was fake.

Sometimes I wonder if only ten percent of posters read the threads they are replying to...

Also there's no way you can tow a plane like that...should be more cars and VISIBLE cables, or else the plane would destabilize itself

[edit on 7/9/2004 by k33l]

Obviously, you have not been near an airport since they started using planes for transportation. That truck-looking vehicle that you see directly in front of the SR-71 is used to transport a plane when it cannot do it under its own power- such as when a commercial plane is pushing away from the terminal or when they want to transfer a plane long distances overland because they get more control and the diesel gas for that truck costs less than the jet fuel to move the plane 20 miles to Plant 42.

This vehicle moves the planes without compromising their stability by attaching itself to the front landing gear by using a metal pole.

As for your arguement about the change in highway color, that happens alot out here. This arguement has already been made and this arguement has already been disproved. Here it is again, but in more detail:

There is just dirt and sand sitting on the road. Look at the picture, at the top of it on the right side off of the road, there is white sand. In the median between the lanes, you can see that white sand has blown onto the road. Closer to the camera, the sand changes to dirt, which is darker and the dirt blown on the road is darker. Where there is an offramp from the highway, the pavement is regular greyish-black because dirt is not being blown from that part of the road-side.

The shadows appear to be messed up, but that is just because the SR-71 is higher than the cars. Follow these directions
draw an imaginary line from the part of the shadow that coresponds to the curve in the fuelage near the cockpit to the coresponding point on the real plane. Then do the same for any car in the procession, drawing a imaginary line from the edge of the shadow (near the middle of the car-length) to the top of the hood (near the middle of the car) and you will see the lines are parallel, thus proving that the earth only has one sun and it is in the same point in space throughout the time it took for the shutter in the camera to open and close.

[edit on 7-9-2004 by darkhealer88]

I can't believe there's so many pages disputing the validity of a real picture, there's nothing wrong with the shadows.