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Bizarre Boeing 757 with an integrated Stealth-Fighter

Bizarre Boeing 757 with an integrated Stealth-Fighter

Boeing 757 The Catfish

Boeing 757 The Catfish (Clemens Vasters, lizenziert under CC BY 2.0)

© Clemens Vasters works under CC BY 2.0

Boeing’s Test Fluke The catfish is in a new, brand new Lackierung aufgetaucht. The rot-weiß-blauen Farben are an Anspielung on the Bemalung, the dieses Flugzeug is as Prototype of the 757 family trick.

Photography and post of the flight with the new Retro-Bemalung vom Aviation-Photographers TaskForce23. Jedoch is not the Lack, was the user in Netz erstaunt: The Boeing had a new new nose and the same direction in the Cockpit.

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Was that 757 Catfish at all?

The catfish is recorded N757A. See the war that took place in 757 and that vom Boden abhob. Your power is in Jungfernflug February 1982.

The Catfish is being tested as a hardware test for the Stealth-Fighter Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor developed. Boeing is one of the biggest Bauteile enthusiasts here.

Many changes, the way the situation presents itself is so pleasant as the first look becomes clearer. One of the acquired properties has died Flugel-overhalb des Cockpits. Shape and dimensions are represented by the Flügeln der tatsächlichen F-22. The Boeing has also integrated a Stealth-Jet completely.

Dieser Sensor wing is with health Sensors and Electronics Ausgestattet, die auch im Kampfjet forks. The Flugzeug takes over the end F-22 radar In the past of the Nase, the fall of the Stealth-Fighter is a nachempfoundation.

This is the Catfish with the F-22 hardware on the front electronic Kriegsführung ausgestattet. It’s a bit annoying Datenkommunikationsgeräte.

F-22

Zusätzlich is the Flugzeug met der AN/AAR-56 Radar warning ausgestattet. Dadurch können Signale von Flugabwehrraketen erasst and Gegenmaßnahmen eingeleitet zijn. Letzteres freilich nicht auf der Catfish, nachdem sie with keinerlei Bewaffnung bzw. Raketenabwehr ausgestattet ist.

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The Catfish stays at the Inneren genug Platz für Personal and Gerätethe functions of Bauteile can be performed. Rund 30 Ingenieurinnen en Ingenieure found on the Flugzeug Platz.

Ebenfalls finds his favorite computer and server, one of the tests that contain protocols and überwachen. In the closet it is a matter of doing it View of the F-22 Cockpits including all Anzeigen and Steuerelemente, wie Steuerknüppel and Schubregler.

Nutzung after the end of F-22 production

Now that I know how the Catfish even flies, the F-22 still goes 2011 gar nicht gebaut wird. If all goes well, the Jets will start producing products that were never shipped. So in der 757 Upgrades tested, before you are in the F-22s countries. We start with the regularity of Catfish in the Luftwaffenstützpunkten Edwards in California and Nellis, Nevada.

Laut a früheren message about Simple Flying flights the 757 dabei in test formations with more Raptors. Dabei wird etwa new software tested, with the Jets automatically eliminated and combined.

Summary of tests in a 757

Is there any new software available for a test flight that is not aimed at a targeted F-22? Tie hat in sterling line regulatory Gründe. So you have to use a software, before you can fly, you can do the best Freigabe and test processes over time.

Weil at the Catfish that F-22 Software aber complete with the flugsteuerung der 757 It is possible that the software in the Luft-testing is not for the Flugeinsatz-freigegeben. If you want to fix the major issues before using the new software on the Jets Test Flugstaffel was played.

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Hided away

The N757A has an entrance that provides barrier-free access. Am 19. February 1982 was the last copy of 757, which Jungfernflug of the model series full-fledged.

Die 757 wurde bis zum Jahr 2004 gebaut. Insgesamt 1,050 Example Please ask Davon von Boeing.

My military variant, die C-32is like Air Force Two the most important traveling flight sow VS-Vizepräsidentin anyway First lady and dem State Secretary.

The first things done and flown 757 are the only machine, the F-22-Testbett is a new machine. This function is now running 25 years. If it is the anniversary of the Grund, the Flugzeug could wear the Retro style of the Jongerenflugs.

The N757A has an unbleached white color, for this purpose.

N757A

China has its own version of Catfish, a system for the Kampfjet J-20 test like this. This is based on der Tupolev Tu-204Cwhich was built as a Russian Gegenstück zur Boeing 757.

Interestingly, the Chinese Catfish is a source of inspiration for the Lackierung of the N575, an inspiring war. The Rumpf has fallen from white and a gray, with blue stripes dazwischen.