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Topic started on 21-6-2004 @ 01:25 PM by AboveTopSecret.com

SNOWBIRD

IS THIS AN EXPERIMENTAL STEALTH AIRCRAFT?
Credit To BlackVault.com and Tom McClure

Snowbird being lifted by a crane

A military officer approached a man at a UFO convention who was holding some photographs and said, "How did you get a picture of the Snowbird Aircraft?" They did not know each other, nor did the man with the pictures speak about the pictures and what they were. This man who approached the other worked on the Snowbird aircraft. I have no other information of this aircraft or even if it truely exists, but nonetheless, it is quite interesting.

Theory Of The Snowbird by Tom McClure

Here are some facts about the picture(s) which allegedly are from Project Snowbird. After examining the photos and using a basic photogrammetry formula, I have determined the following dimensions, approximate to within +/- 1 foot.

The pole or stand in the center of the diamond shaped platform is 18 feet tall, and slants towards the main body of the runway at an angle of roughly 18 degrees.

The object being lifted on or off the tower by the crane is 15.5 feet long, 12 feet across, and 5 feet tall/deep.

If it has any means of thrust common to our technology, it is obviously hidden by the upper portion of the rear fuselage. If it is indeed designed to carry a passenger then it represents technology that is perhaps two-three decades beyond our current levels (the thrust equipment or engines would require greater miniaturization than is presently known and available).

The body is highly reminiscent of the Stealth design, which may indicate that it is a prototype or "shell" model of a remotely piloted spy-drone. There are certainly tests being done in this area...it's not improbable that this is an advanced example.

For those who wish to critique the dimensions I have given, I submit to you the formula used:

ro/s = x/ms

Solve for x.

ro=reference object (I used the humans in the picture, assumed to be approx. 6 feet tall.)

s = shadow of reference object

x = the dimensions being measured of the object in question

ms = measured shadow of the object in question

Design schematic of Snowbird



(reprinted with permission)


reply posted on 22-6-2004 @ 02:48 PM by WestPoint23
if it was only a testing drone how come it was so secret?



reply posted on 12-3-2005 @ 09:59 PM by ericb007
To set all of you straight on the "experitmental" stealth plane snowbird... Well if it is top secret it isn't very top secret at my university. I went to a lecture put on by the designers and creaters of the "snowbird" and saw videos of its operations too.

Hell i could've seen the damn thing too but I missed my bus and was 45 mins late so i missed the public viewing.

It is an UAV (unmanned arial vehicle) right now in the testing phase for a high payload to drop phamphlets over enemy territory. Like the ones dropped in Iraq to tell them how to surrender. It uses a parachute and then a fan for propulsion has an incredible range and is going to be completely autonomous. Thus nobody gets endangered on a mission that doesn't involve dropping any bombs. I believe there are only 2 or 3 in existance. The first one was destoryed by accident in its first deployment out of a herc. Dropped to the ground like a brick because the parachute couldn't deploy because some chump forgot to remove a peice that was marked "Remove before launch". The reason its not easy to find is because its being built by a small engineering firm based out of Ottawa, Ontario. The lecture was put on at Carleton University. For the Aerospace Engineers. Thus its not a crazy flat plane built in the 60s with stealth technologies.

Its designed to be launched from either a humvee or a herc transport plane...


Not a top secret "stealth plane."

And the "snowbirds" are the acrobatic team for the canadian military that do air shows.
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