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With all those cryptic ads, shadows on clouds, shadow on the ground, shape under wraps... Northrop wins the teasing contest hands down... too bad that Boeing/LM did not respond with similarly enjoyable stuff.

The clouds video at least may be worth an image processing exercise: I could swear I see some sort of canards at the front (or "Christmas Fighter"-like configuration).
Christmas Fighter inlet configuration is not unlike some of the published artist renderings (and consistent with the silhouette under wraps), but I have no clue as to why they would put canards on a LO bomber...
Other shadows on other clouds also bring supersonic designs to mind: YB-70, or even Tu-144.

In short: could be the shadows of just about anything, excellent teasing.
And btw, does the PR dept even know how the proposed aircraft actually looks like?

<blockquote data-quote="bipa" data-source="post: 272771" data-attributes="member: 1229">With all those cryptic ads, shadows on clouds, shadow on the ground, shape under wraps... Northrop wins the teasing contest hands down... too bad that Boeing/LM did not respond with similarly enjoyable stuff.The clouds video at least may be worth an image processing exercise: I could swear I see some sort of canards at the front (or &quot;Christmas Fighter&quot;-like configuration).Christmas Fighter inlet configuration is not unlike some of the published artist renderings (and consistent with the silhouette under wraps), but I have no clue as to why they would put canards on a LO bomber...Other shadows on other clouds also bring supersonic designs to mind: YB-70, or even Tu-144.In short: could be the shadows of just about anything, excellent teasing.And btw, does the PR dept even know how the proposed aircraft actually looks like?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bipa, post: 272771, member: 1229"] With all those cryptic ads, shadows on clouds, shadow on the ground, shape under wraps... Northrop wins the teasing contest hands down... too bad that Boeing/LM did not respond with similarly enjoyable stuff. The clouds video at least may be worth an image processing exercise: I could swear I see some sort of canards at the front (or "Christmas Fighter"-like configuration). Christmas Fighter inlet configuration is not unlike some of the published artist renderings (and consistent with the silhouette under wraps), but I have no clue as to why they would put canards on a LO bomber... Other shadows on other clouds also bring supersonic designs to mind: YB-70, or even Tu-144. In short: could be the shadows of just about anything, excellent teasing. And btw, does the PR dept even know how the proposed aircraft actually looks like? [/QUOTE]

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