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This is a design I found in a PDF file online about a 1-1/2 ago. I wish I would have downloaded the PDF file, but I just took a screen capture because most of the file wasn't about aircraft. It was either about advanced systems and possibly networking. It was some sort of defense related PDF file and this one page had this design on it. BTW, it was a Boeing PDF document.
I have no idea if this is one of the tailless fighter designs that has supposedly flown at Groom Lake or if it is the YF-24 (There was a report within the past year about a test pilot and in his history one of the planes he supposedly flew first at Groom Lake was the YF-24 prototype, which doesn't tell us anything).
Based on the design and the Boeing/McD-D design history, aka the X-36 and the BOP, I think it's safe to say that looking at the nozzle the aicraft probably uses fluidic thrust vectoring contol in yaw in combination with it's 2D C-D nozzle.
Anyway, I think it's a nice looking plane.
I have no idea if this is one of the tailless fighter designs that has supposedly flown at Groom Lake or if it is the YF-24 (There was a report within the past year about a test pilot and in his history one of the planes he supposedly flew first at Groom Lake was the YF-24 prototype, which doesn't tell us anything).
Based on the design and the Boeing/McD-D design history, aka the X-36 and the BOP, I think it's safe to say that looking at the nozzle the aicraft probably uses fluidic thrust vectoring contol in yaw in combination with it's 2D C-D nozzle.
Anyway, I think it's a nice looking plane.