Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator
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kwaigonegin
Colonel
OT: of course.. heck there are tons of rural places that has NO street views. To truly make street views or tech like it work it has to be spanned out to include everyone. Maybe have a program where vetted individuals who wants to join can mount the 360 cameras on their cars and drive around then shared it back to google central to stitch them together.
I think if we can have say 10K drivers spread evenly all over the US we can have a pretty comprehensive street views and updated frequently.
Shouldn't they mount it on a pole if that were the case?
Yes. Maybe we're seeing it on the ground when it is not mounted on a pole, which is likely to be the case for most RCS test models during their lives.
But I really can't think that this GA-related airport, which is more or less open to the public and which is or was never related to be a top-secret military facility before (at least IMO) - and measuring the F-22's RCS is surely such an issue - would be the place where to build a full-size Raptor-mock-up prior to any testing ... that seems also not possible at this site since nothing is available.
Wouldn't be a place similar to the J-20 on that test-pole at Chengdu or at the CFTE be a much more likely place ?
IMO that all does not makes sense ... and the best explanation is that there simply someone or a group of peoples build that F-22 model just for fun.
Deino
Wouldn't be a place similar to the J-20 on that test-pole at Chengdu or at the CFTE be a much more likely place ?
IMO that all does not makes sense ... and the best explanation is that there simply someone or a group of peoples build that F-22 model just for fun.
Deino
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Why would it be at an airport if it was just an amateur project?
It seems a little more plausible if it was a government project, in which case the only scenario that makes sense is RCS testing, and the presence of the model at the airport could be simply transportation - it was air lifted from wherever it was built, and was just put back together prior to being transported the last leg by road and/or train to an RCS test range somewhere not to far away.
But if it was a government project, then why on such a location. This airport has no military meaning nor installation and if it was indeed only there during transportation, why not dismanteled on a truck like the J-31-fuselage we've seen once ?
Honestly, there are so many things that simply don't fit ... but they even less fit to a hyper-secret new stealth type or any government led project.
Deino
Engineer
Major
Huh? The reason behind transporting J-31 on a truck was because the aircraft cannot be dismantled.
Equation
Lieutenant General
Blackstone
Brigadier
Probably fan art.