Boeing Bird of Prey

[MrCstimp]

do you think they would ever make a civilian version of this without all the stealth capabilities and weapons technology. id much rather by that than an L-39

[Direwolf56]

I wonder what the cockpit looks like from the inside. Probably just analog guages considering when it was built.

[ManifestMiasma]

@Direwolf56 Every cockpit has analog gauges, even modern airliners. 14 CFR requires it.

[Direwolf56]

@ManifestMiasma I don't think the F-22 does.

[robonightmare]

First time I've ever seen this thing. I'm getting chills; it's so beautiful.

[rcpowersfan101]

i <3 Boeings new planes (this,797,747-8) just to name a few.

[Scorpion85629]

This beautiful beast should have the X32's powerplant and control systems installed into it.

[tommyzDad]

That is one F-ugly bird.

[vladdrac88]

I wonder how small an emp device can be. Could it affect flight computers?

[tcbaldwin2000]

This is a pathetic try at trying to get your game back. Fact is Mac D never had it...

[pricelessppp]

cool is thaqt a real guy iin that plane

[datzfast]

im willing to bet its plywood with fiberglass over it. does any body know

[rtg593]

@datzfast Actually carbon fiber. Sometime back in 01-02 Popular Science had this as it's cover article. All angles to deflect radar, carbon fiber body to absorb any remaining radar, and angled exhaust duct for the engine makes it hard for a heat seeker to find. Basically a showcase of a pure stealth aircraft. 7,400 pounds, top speed 260 knots, max altitude 20,000 ft.

[MrROTD]

We need a cheaper fighter before we learn the hard lesson the Germans did, numbers win wars more than complex weapons can. Why the hell did my country buy F-22s? we can only afford like 10 of em lmao

[tcbaldwin2000]

@MrROTD U R clueless... must be Chinese or Russian... body count to spare...

[tvsinesperanto]

@MrROTD War is a very different beast these days. Your comparison with WWII doesn't apply any more.

[Bladestorm687]

@tvsinesperanto But WWII was the best war ever.

[tvsinesperanto]

@Bladestorm687 I know of a few hundred million Brits and Europeans who might not agree with you on that.

[Bladestorm687]

@tvsinesperanto I'm a natural born European.

[tvsinesperanto]

@Bladestorm687 Good for you!

[slingshotace]

does anybody know if there is a game you can fly this in

i went to dayton it is really small its little bigger than a car

[datzfast]

@slingshotace its 47 feet long so if that is your idea of small so be it.

[tvsinesperanto]

@slingshotace X-Plane probably has a model for it. You can get just about any plane ever made (and quite a few never or not yet made) for that. Mind you, it's more of a sim than a game per se.

[slingshotace]

does anybody know if there is a game you can fly this in

[Templarium]

did it actually flew? 

[tonightwefly]

@Templarium Yes the aircraft made 38 test flights for the Boeing Phantom Works division.

[StellarBlue1]

This looks like some of the paper planes we used to make in school on a regular basis. We would try bending the paper into many different configurations. Of course, I was the worst at paper airplanes. Guess I will leave the big stuff to the pros. And from the look of this cool bird, things are really hopping in American Aviation. When it comes to inventing and building things our world needs, the UNITED STATES of AMERICA IS #1

[TheSimonHarris]

@StellarBlue1 Now did we really need squirty cheese or The Tuxedo Paint System!??????????

[StellarBlue1]

@TheSimonHarris Dam, can't Americans at least say AMERICA IS NO 1? We all know it is not true anymore, by a long shot. Oh well, every dog (and country) has its day. America has shot most of its wad, but I think we can still fuck the world in a decent matter...

[TheSimonHarris]

@StellarBlue1 hahahaha lol when you put it like that i guess so

[MrROTD]

@StellarBlue1 America still has the best weapons except frigates, our are best jk jk Fancy weapons alone dont win battles, look at WW11, the American tanks and rifles were inferior and not as fancy as the Germans but the allies still won.On the other hand I don't think it's Americas job to fuck the world lol sorry if that bums you out man.

[MokomaSusi]

@MrROTD

I would say that M1 Garand is a lot better than Kar98.

[tvsinesperanto]

@MokomaSusi Seconded. By a wide margin too.

[ianoparty22]

@StellarBlue1 We are the best, we have the best weapon systems in the world, and who the fuck are you guys to talk? you guys aren't worth shit

[mustangwkc]

They have it at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio right above an F/A-22

[riche7711]

Honestly why would they need a stealth tech demonstrator? Doesnt the F-117, B-2, F-22A, YF-23, F-25, F-35 and all the other random X planes NASA and the CIA have work? They `ve been working on the F-22 almost as long as they developed the F-15. The US doesnt realese a technology nowdays unless they can already counter it. We have got crafts that will fly circles around any F-22 or Su-47. Would be a nice replacement for my Cessna.

[cobrala]

@riche7711 Well you see everything you see in production is lagging behind. Like you said by the time we can build, test and produce a new aircraft such as the F-35, scientists have already experimented and tested something better which will be applied to the next generation. I tell people all the time believe you me the US has stuff in secret hangers that you cant even imagine that is at least 20 years ahead of the F-22 or F-35. If we saw them now we would accidentally call it alien

[riche7711]

@cobrala Hey i already know, Ive seen some really interesting things as a pilot, but one of the main reasons they cant release it to the public is many are nuclear powered and the FAA and countless environmental agencies would absolutey flip shit if they knew that the military and civilian teams were flying these things over the population. And many of the things that are hidden away in these hangars are Alien Reproduction Vehicles.

[gtq838]

@riche7711 LOL

[tvsinesperanto]

@cobrala Actually, I'd argue that they wouldn't look that much different on the outside to what we are seeing today. You can't change the airframe too much or it simply won't fly. They'll probably do away with all vertical surfaces though, for stealth reasons. The real differences will be in the avionics & materials used. The big developments over the next 20-50 years are going to be in AI for UAVs & UCVs & in greater manoeuvrability & structural integrity so these new UAVs can turn on a dime.

[tvsinesperanto]

@tvsinesperanto Oops, that was meant to be in reply to riche7711, not cobrala. My apologies.

[kdraper2007]

@riche7711 To test new designs for low observable aircraft. make sure your new technology works before you design it into a prototype military aircraft. this was a boeing company project, entirely funded by boeing with no D.O.D. participation.

[jeimi007]

i I hope this new weapon that flies so high as to never again how in the video of the song "Bird of pray,Fatboy Slim" we would be truly proud.. : )

[kdraper2007]

@jeimi007 it's not a weapon, it's an aircraft to demonstrate technology. it has no weapons carring capability. in fact it's been in storage for about 10 years.

[jeimi007]

The Bird of Prey was a black project aircraft, intended to demonstrate STEALTH TECHNOLOGY. It was developed by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing in the 1990s.[1] Funded by the company at a price of $67 million,[1] it was a low cost program compared to many other programs of similar scale. It developed technology and materials which would later be used on Boeing's X-45 unmanned COMBAT air vehicle. As an internal project, this aircraft was not given an X-plane designation

Shut up manipulator..

[ql233F3l2420p]

ywah star fox gonna be pissed...

[adoniantiquated]

Sounds like porno music.

[Infidelerious]

I can't make my mind up. Is it too pretty for words or is it ugly as sin?

Either way it's totally cool!

[iamfritz]

Looks cg.

[tinsmith2]

a good looking bird

[SSJpickle]

badass shit

[solnegrolunaroja]

It seems that we have a trekkie inside the project, the aircraft, in some camera angles, looks a lot like a Klingon bird of prey! See at 0:18.

[Tobi1087Tobi]

Whats the plane alongside Bird Of Prey ???

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@Tobi1087Tobi

Its an observation aircraft.

[haygoodb]

F-16

[FlamesOfDarkness09]

@Tobi1087Tobi it's an F-16B/D

[DaTr3nchcoatM3nace]

at 0:28 i cant figure out where to find that picture or logo whatever it is...

[sakoshooter48]

It is the logo for the Boeing Phantom Works, just as Lokheed has the Skunk Works!

[ubuibiok]

You cant Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd...

"demonstrate stealth technology", 1996? Wake-up!

Look up F117, check its "Official Dates".

In 1964, Pyotr Ya. Ufimtsev, a Russian mathematician, published a seminal paper, "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction", in the Journal of the Moscow Institute for Radio Engineering, in which he showed that the strength of a radar return is related to the edge configuration of an object, not its size.

[jdogbig1]

FAKE!!! just kidding, I couldn't resist! Interesting look but doesn't seem large enough for anything practical much less useful for anything military

[19nolan62]

@jdogbig1

All it has to do is carry one Nuke Warhead and reach a target. ICBMs are watched by sattelite. They will never see one if these coming.

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@jdogbig1

It could be used for recon and electronic warfare purposes. Its main purpose was to demonstrate a number of things: functional capabilities; new manufacturing processes; low cost (total project cost was $67million).

[starscream565]

it got it's name from the Klingon bird of prey from the star trek series'

[antos1985]

@starscream565 what makes you think that?

[starscream565]

it looks like it ann i read about it

[systemaddictshock]

looks like a paper airplane I once made.

[Scorch1321]

that's no aircraft! that's a f*ckin spaceship :D:D:D cool by the way :P

[Eikinkloster]

Weird. Doesn't look like something that would fly. I guess most of it's body works as a wing...

[skiwebb23]

Yea maybe they have used Danger Zone from Top Gun. They should use this plane in the new Batman film, with a realistic sense I mean.

[kbfreund]

my grandpa was the cheif engineer on it

[gaspunkwars]

I have always liked the cranked wing design. Have a look at Luft 46 designs by Blohm und Voss. The P208 for instance. Nothing new under the sun. They had jet powered version P210 on the drawing board in 1944

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Right....it is truley amazing what was come up with by the Nazi's......Its not fun to admit...but they where well ahead of their time. Thank providence that we got em before they could perfect some of their more interesting designs....else our space program and Intellegence opperations would have been taken over by Nazis.....wait a minute....that happened anyway LOL!!! Oh well at least Nazi sympathisers like Prescott Bush didnt get into power....just his Grandkids LOL!!!

[V10Killer2JayZee]

They Should Call it ... The Night Crawler!

[d3adinside1234]

SWEET

[frankensteinmoneymac]

I am wondering if they had any aerodynamic problems with the unique design...If not they should have continued it IMHO. If for no other reason than it looks really....really....badass.

And looking badass is half the battle.

[flamesholder]

As far as I know, they did not have any problems. The plane was stable and had no fly-by-wire. That is actually cool. Now it is only Burt Rutan who builds gorgeous, but simple and reliable planes.

[Funderbunk]

@frankensteinmoneymac Actually, according to the Wikipedia entry on the Bird of Prey, the shape is aerodynamically stable enough to be flown without computer correction. It does look badass... I want one. Now, just gotta win Powerball for a few hundred million and give Boeing a call, I'm sure in this economy they'd knock out another for someone with cash in hand.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

@Funderbunk Interesting, I wonder why they didnt continue with it.....BTW promise me you will give me a ride in the thing when you hit those powerball numbers! LOL!!!

[Funderbunk]

@frankensteinmoneymac

@frankensteinmoneymac Actually, according to the Wikipedia entry on the Bird of Prey, the shape is aerodynamically stable enough to be flown without computer correction. It does look badass... I want one. Now, just gotta win Powerball for a few hundred million and give Boeing a call, I'm sure in this economy they'd knock out another for someone with cash in hand.

[Attilaakiraly]

nice to see we can create aircrafts like these now! -.- shame to project got scrapped! what else area 51 is hiding now? :D lets see lets see!

[frankensteinmoneymac]

well...honestly we were making aircraft like this back in the 40's!!! Well at least the Nazi's were....Did you see the Discovery Channels (I think,,,maybe it was the Science Channel...one of those though) episode where they reconstructed Hitler's "Stealth Bomber"? The thing looked pretty much like our modern version...plus they experimented with flying wings...& even more exotic designs if U believe some authors.....

[orgasmictomato]

Considering these are old designs.

As seen in my sky here in Australia (Video response) the most likely culprit of new updated versions. These far exceeding the specs on this video. But Boeing still will not answer the phone on what they call the new version etc.

" We don't give out operational data "

So looks like we will be kept like mushrooms again....

i.e:- you know... kept in the dark and fed bullshit..... TRUTH.

I believe they have active camouflage and near space ceiling.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Very interesting video.....I read a very convincing article that the so called 'flying triangles' which are usually described as huge and silent are actualy hybrid hard shelled (made of high tech composite material light as cloth...but hard like steel) blimps which can move fast like an airplane or jet 'cause of their aerodynamic shell. They have to be big to displace enough air. Cant say thats what this is though. PS I like your 'mushroom' analogy...funny stuff...can I qoute it sometime?

[orgasmictomato]

Hi Brian,

Sure quote it all you want it's an old one here in Australia, see we are used to being treated like that by our politicians and such.

If you have time to catch some of my other videos, you may pick up on the similarity of shape that keeps re-appearing in my "unknowns". This is what leads me toward this craft, as I haven't seen any other that fits the bill, yet. That is if it is one of  Earth's human craft?

But I will keep on videoing as practice makes perfect as they say.TRUTH,

Jim

[frankensteinmoneymac]

OK I will check them out.....yeah I could not tell the shape very much of the first one I watched......its hard to tell when it is shot in the dark......I may send you a message to your site about what I think (easier to comment that way....I can have more space without having to trim everything) Anyway thanks.....

Keep watching the skies.............I Want To Believe.......

...The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence...generic pro-UFO catch phraise#11.......etc. LOL!!!

[Attilaakiraly]

yea i just looked it up, wery sexy actually!

[Kytescall]

I confess there are few stealth aircraft that I find very handsome, but this is one cool baby!

[lostinseganet]

Looks like nintendo should sue for their arwing design back :)

[ohainoob]

Even the backing track to the music is from Zelda. LOL!

[Ctmalcolm21]

Didn't work done on this aircraft heavily influence the design of the JSF (F-35 Lightening II)?

[tronfan1]

i dont think so, the first flight of the bird of prey was in 96, the same year the JSF proposal phase began, i dont think they had the time to adapt their findings from the BoP and apply them to JSF.

I bet if boeing had modified the BoP and made it a fighter, they would had won the JSF contract, and the cost per aircraft would have been cheaper too

no matter, the research of the BoP is now in the X-45, and with the emphasis on UAVs now a days, they will get their moneys worth

[zoator]

I'm no aerodynamics major, but am a flight instructor. I would say the the "winglet" looking fins pointing down serve as the vertical stabilizer, while the shape of the entire aircraft along with the trailing edge control surfaces produce a horizontal stabilizing effect. Just observing though, don't quote me on it.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Ha I qouted you without your permission!!! Take That guy I dont know!!!!!!

[schemingeyebrows]

Anybody know what this ridiculously cheesy (and therefore awesome) music is?

[kakabukkake0]

haha yes absolutely

[anonymootle]

If i saw this, in flight i'd be shouting UFO -.- Shows how uneducated i am with aircraft.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Not really....Im sure this is the aim of certain black ops project......people are less likely to shoot down a UFO....plus if it looks truly like a space craft...then enemy soldier may be afraid of reporting it for fear they will be rideculed...classic psych warfare......

[patrickww99]

yes,ur a tool

[frankensteinmoneymac]

uhhhhh alrighty then.....not sure what I said that made you call me a tool?!?!?!

I guess ur a huge fan o' pysche warfare or sumthin' & dont like me talkin' smack about it???LOL!!!

Seriously though......WTF did I say that deserved me being called a "tool"?

[patrickww99]

not reallly sure why... you just come across that way... A bit geeky is the way id describe it... i felt like sharing so... hope that helps?

[frankensteinmoneymac]

OH yeah....well......well..... I gues you were honest LOL!!!

However I dont...nor ever shall consider being a geek a bad thing. Maybe when I was in grade school and couldnt get a date.....that was a bad word....now Im living a life I would have never dreamed of back then!! So sure....being a Geek has been great to me! Thanks! Ive never been accused of being a tool though...U do know the words are not interchangable right?

[DrHoe77]

It was widely rumored that this vehicle was a testbed for Active Camoflague technology.

[calapanpo]

like.....in Halo..............

[DrHoe77]

I guess. I've never played any of the Halo games. I've HALO jumped, though. But the rumor was that the plane had or what in the beginning stages of thermoptic (invisibility) camoflague, but they could'nt get it to work, so the project got shelved and de-classified.

[calapanpo]

The Covenant (aliens) used active camoflague on their infantry (except for jackels, hunters, and drones).

[DrHoe77]

OK. Well, I guess then, yeah. The military's been experimenting with this ever since Predator came out. In fact, Stan Winston was contacted by the Air Force a few times and questioned about the real world viability of the effect used in the film.

[DoraEatBabies]

O.o... im quite a stupid person... so how is active camoflague supposed to work? in some sense it blends in with the colours of the surroundings right? but many people might look at the air craft from different angles... so how is it supposed to make everyone see as thought its invisible?

[DrHoe77]

Active camoflague uses tiny cameras imbedded in the hull to film the surrounding environment and then project the image around the vehicle, giving it the appearance of being see-through, or invisible. Some scientists are trying to use advance holo-imaging or light refracting thermoptics like the Predator.

Asking a question is the first step towards gaining intelligence. You're not stupid, just uninformed.

[DoraEatBabies]

O.o... thanks for sharing xD that mus b rly hard for the scientist >.> there's always panadol extra xD

[tvsinesperanto]

Never apologise for asking questions. The only stupid people are the ones who refuse to ask and therefore remain ignorant.

[Vrael1022]

lol, thats just epic lol

[metalrayn]

remmember the v-tail of the yf-22? i think it's the same principal, except the "v" upside down is incorporated into the wingtips. anyway this machine is trully incredible, it is actually "simpler" in terms of the lack of/need of eletronic flight stabalizer system compared to the f-117.

[halle835]

As a future USAF Fighter Pilot I say FUCK UAV'S!!

[taitbryan]

seems pointless that this craft would have a cockpit, considering UAV technology is the real wave of the future in military aviation.

[nojnojnoj109]

looks like a space fighter lol so im on board with the design lol

[badboy9318]

It looks totally ridiculous but also really cool!!

[1objection]

I think it looks kinda cool but.... It can't accurately be called a "bird of prey" because frankly.... IT HAS NO DEFENSE OR OFFENSE!!!!!

[Chopin742]

bird of pray?

[kdraper2007]

bird of prey.

[kdraper2007]

It was called that because from some angles it looked like a Klingon ship fron the star trek movies.

[Staatssicherheit]

That thing is ugly, I hate those mutant aircraft. My dream is to shoot them all down. And that thing is easily downed with a WW2 Fighter or Inteceptor. And so can u do with B-2. If u find it, u dont need anything hi-tech to take it down.

[bonehead712]

lol

[podman27]

first u have 2 find it, good luck wit that one, wont show on radar, its tiny, and can fly pretty high

[mazy2500]

prom pish next

[Gl3n44]

i would be very poud if thay call this the Phantom III!

[SoloWing808]

Man, where does the thing get its lift?

[Gl3n44]

it goes only 260knots so i have no idea

[podman27]

rummor has it that they put electrysity on the wings and thus are able to reduce weight/increast lift, look at vids of the lifter device. rumor also has it that they did the same with the f-117

[oskeet411]

Not the F-117, the B-2

they're called ionized leading edges and produce electrogravitic levitation haha

[NaughtyBwoi]

interesting, so what happens when the edges are ionised? they produce electrogravitic levitation?!?! if so, what does that mean and do?

[oskeet411]

when the leading edges are ionized they're electrically charged to a high voltage supercharging the airflow over the big aircraft body so it doesn't stall at slow speeds. the electrogravitic levitation is a name for the type of electrokinetics that the aircraft uses in this situation.

[NaughtyBwoi]

wow, amazing man. thanks for the information. god bless.

[oskeet411]

yea no problem and God bless you too

[cesar333]

You have no clue what your talking about.

[oskeet411]

first of all i didnt make this stuff up

and maybe if you actually knew a little bit about aerodynamics you would know why they would consider doing this

[oskeet411]

but then again there are secrets about the B2 and im not 100% sure abou this concept

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Check out the work of T.T. Brown or just look at the many "lifter" projects on the internet & Youtube. Its a proven Tech-arguably the same thing as in the Ionic Breeze. My research into T.T. Brown shows that He was using a slightly different technique than the "lifter" projects however. Also in the B2 configeration it likely gave added thrust more so than added lift. Also if they it made more of plasma it could reduce radarVis as well. Dont know if they did this...but its an interesting thought.

[vijil]

Got to be the most badass aircraft in history in terms of looks.

[xtalxtal]

not quite, Blackbird and the F117 beat it

[vijil]

I dissagree by a long, long shot. But hey it's all just personal preference :)

[twinoceans]

It's certainly badass, but still behind yf-23 and B-2 in my book. Cheer:)

[lostinseganet]

Wow it kinda looks like the ship from nintendos star fox.

[aliensporebomb]

A very slick looking aircraft. Now we know why some people report seeing UFOs. It basically looks like it shouldn't be able to fly if you look at it from certain angles.

[evilintel]

I think the BoP ranks with the BAC 221 and B-58 for having the tallest landing gear for its size.

[Membrane556]

The big issue at boeing is their management sometimes crushes innovative projects just because they are outside the box they have a dilbert type situation.

The Boeing JSF for example wasn't a bad design just was a poorly managed program. They need to rectify this maybe take a good long look at how things are done at software companies and the new aerospace companies.

[F22RaptorFF]

the only good fighter that boeing made was the F-15E because the A-C were made by mcdonald douglas then boeing bought them

[LordBicen]

Que Klingon music...

[chuckshissle]

A very odd looking aircraft.

[the1bigace]

Boeing has lost 2 fighter contracts already, better get it's act together

[F22RaptorFF]

thats because boeing is only good at making cargo aircraft and civi but lockheed martin knows how to make fighters

[startrayenok]

Look them up on internet not the one i seen..

[RAPTORSTARSHIP]

I cant talk too much about Plasma URVs, and UAVs, TRVs. The next war will be fought from space.

[theworacle]

Ben Rich, the Skunk Works guy behind the F-117, once said he could made a brick fly with fly-by-wire - this might just be the proof

[MidniteCM]

One Word, "Boeing!"

I think my mouth fell off. I wonder where they test flew this? I bet their were UFO sittings, lol.

[RAPTORSTARSHIP]

~TR-3Chameleon~ Tesla Research Group-Boeing Phantomworks A-53WD Australia CSS U.S. CAC craft, ~V~ DARK STAR ~V~

[startrayenok]

Ok ya still working for boeing and why arent you over sees with buddys How old are you?

[RAPTORSTARSHIP]

45, yep I should be there, instead of sitting behind a keyboard. I have been all over iraq, iran, afganistan, its a big mess.

[startrayenok]

Your better help here to all of us! especially us....

[nextgenerationlibert]

Geeze, I'm amazed to see this thing even fly! Man that'd be an awesome fighter!!! ^^

[RAPTORSTARSHIP]

Flying Cray Super Cs are.

[fresshness2001]

Boeing Bird of Prey, or, UFO's: are we there yet?

[RAPTORSTARSHIP]

A long time ago.Type in (Trumbull county sightings) You will see A NOTE craft, and the CAC craft that comes looking for it,CAC CSS, Central Sec Service(mib) The police officer was very lucky the note craft picked up incoming U.S. CAC craft and left the area.Thats their Job,they do it very well.

[startrayenok]

seen that video too you sent it lol lol that was a good one thanks....tray

[Morris1962]

Wow, that is a real stunner. Thank you for all your videos, they are great.