We just reported on what appears to be an exotic stealth Super Hornet test article stored at the USAF’s Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Groups boneyard in Arizona. Due to limited photographic evidence we could only theorize that article in question was a fully formed concept,not a much more conventionally configured testbed with a missing nose section as reported by Aviation Week. With new indirect images brought to our attention from a Foxtrot Alpha reader, our original conclusions appear to be spot-on. This Hornet concept was more exotic than anything we possess seen before, or with a fully formed low-observable frontal fascia missing a traditional Hornet’s “barrel and cone nose entirely. Read more...
Source: gawker.com