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The "legends" of the 90s seemed realistic to people at the time. The Northrop NGB demonstrator may seem to make sense, but peel back the legend a little and it's just that - a legend.The F-19 was the F-117. Not much mystery there.The MiG-37 was a model kit. I don't think many people thought it was a model of an actual aircraft, and I believe the box and instructions made it clear that it was hypothetical.The TR-3 was probably the confluence of several things: Misreporting of the Tier UAVs early in the program, and eyewitness sightings of other triangular aircraft flying on the western test ranges at the time.Really, the only one that the "average joe" might be aware of would be Aurora.If you are talking about the UCAV demonstrator that Lockheed was flying in the 90s, that did not appear to be related at all to MINION, but was very much related to FATE.
The "legends" of the 90s seemed realistic to people at the time. The Northrop NGB demonstrator may seem to make sense, but peel back the legend a little and it's just that - a legend.
The F-19 was the F-117. Not much mystery there.
The MiG-37 was a model kit. I don't think many people thought it was a model of an actual aircraft, and I believe the box and instructions made it clear that it was hypothetical.
The TR-3 was probably the confluence of several things: Misreporting of the Tier UAVs early in the program, and eyewitness sightings of other triangular aircraft flying on the western test ranges at the time.
Really, the only one that the "average joe" might be aware of would be Aurora.
If you are talking about the UCAV demonstrator that Lockheed was flying in the 90s, that did not appear to be related at all to MINION, but was very much related to FATE.
