Mitragorz

wareagle07

Pretty slick. I don't know anything about the program, does anyone know why they'd haul it around like that? It appears capable of sustained powered flight.

Delta102

There flight testing to see how she'll ride before taking her to Edwards.

wareagle07

Gotcha, thanks for the info

rickair7777

Yeah they are testing it's aerodynamics, not transporting it.

Dougdrvr

Looks a lot like a scaled up "Darkstar"

jsfBoat

I'm sure the 74 appreciates the lighter load on its back.

Mitragorz

It's a UAV. Stealth, supposedly.

From what the tower guys said, it WAS transporting it. I spoke with STL Tower and they said that it was to go up for a test flight on the Saturday the 11th to see how the 74 handled with it on it's back, and then it'd be cleared to take it to Edwards two days later. All the plans got changed bc of weather. It wound up doing the practice flight on Monday the 13th and departed for Edwards the next day.

Jones14

It was a cool sight to see that thing out on the ramp. I was in my TSA indoc class that day. Pretty sure I heard it roar over the traning building. It was definitely a "bigger" sound than what's usually departing.

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