Talk:Northrop Tacit Blue
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was there a version called Half Blue? On a recent Discovery Channel show someone was talking about a crash that was buried at groom lake and called it this, perhaps he misspoke?
Nope. I am pretty sure you are thinking of Lockheed Have Blue, the experimental design which led to the F-117 Nighthawk.
Yeah I agree the guy must have misspoke. I touched this aircraft, like the article says it is on display at the Air Force Museum. Its cool to think that this was such a high profile secret at one point, and now you can see it for yourself. :)
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[edit] changes mar 2007
I updated a reference to the museum placement and removed conjecture about it being designated an F-117D. The source for that conjecture was not a reliable source (a conspiracy webpage that itself did not cite a source). --Chuck Sirloin 15:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speed correction
"# Maximum speed: 68 mph (462 km/h)"
This has to be false, as these two are not even close to equivalent speeds :) Also nothing with wings that short could ever stay aloft at 68mph.
Anyone have the real info? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by StarKruzr (talk • contribs) 21:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC).
- I would like to add the the Farman Longhorn and Shorthorn pusher biplanes rarely exceeded speeds of 45 miles per hour in level flight, and they had a significantly smaller wing span and area.--The4sword 18:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] JSTARS
www.ausairpower.net says that the Tacit Blue was also supposed to penetrate behind enemy lines and then use a JSTARS type RADAR to scout armored formations and datalink the info bank to allied hq to prove the concept of a stealth aircraft doing this in a battle situation. The problem I have with that is fitting a powerful radar to a stealth aircraft announces one's presence and makes the stealth afforded by the design pointless. Radar, like any emission of EMS energy can be intercepted and/or used to find the location of the source - in this case the plane using radar warning receivers.
In short what they are proposing makes no sense and is not mentioned by the USAF source, we should consider removing it and the text that cites it from the article. Anynobody 06:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
- The whale was very secret and anything published about it should be taken with skepticism. On Northrop employee told me that the whale was actually part of the B-2 project and the plane form that was considered before the wing was chosen. Another possibility is that it could be used for in flight testing of stealth. Of course the official story is that the radar would have used techniques to keep the enemy from shooting it down. Saltysailor (talk) 07:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Pave Mover
I've changed the red-linked Pave Mover to the disamb/list page PAVE, which includes the Pave Mover red-link. I figured, if you don't know what Pave-named gadgets were, this would at least give the casual reader something to get a handle on. My comment, OTOH, exists to remind someone to put the link back once this link turns blue :) -- PaulxSA 10:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
