Dec 04 2007
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Another IFO
Lockheed Martin’s P-791 is a mammoth hybrid aircraft. “Hybrid” because it uses a combination of lighter-than-air technology combined with an aerodynamic shape to produce lift when the craft is in motion. The fun part of this story is that the Lockheed “Skunkworks” people are planning to develop a version that uses transparent material so that the craft will be difficult to see from the ground.
Imagine if the “invisible” version (with a few lights added for effect) was sighted hovering over the north Los Angeles county desert some night.
See video of the P-791 here.
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December 4th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
What is the basis of this “transparent” material? Would it be what some people propose, using thousands of leds on the skin of the aircraft to project in real time what’s above it? or something more… exotic?
That p-791 is not the smoothest of landers, is it?
December 6th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
If more of these things get off the ground I think there will be reports of flying pigs rather than flying saucers. It’s too bad the magnus effect blimp was never built. See www.magenn.com, scroll down a bit and click on the video link on the right.
Forget about LED’s, the next generation of video screens is OLED which is self luminescent, potentially transparent, 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 100,000 hours, and so far the thinnest one made is 1/3 mm. They’re used for the little screens on the outside of cell phones now but are getting bigger this month thanks to Sony, then others. They can also be used for general lighting, and presumably camouflage.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Whoops, there should not be a comma after www.magenn.com
December 6th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
RPJ,
Yeah, it lands on 4 hovercraft pads. I don’t know why the designers thought that this was useful, and didn’t use tires.
See next reply for more.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
euphemystic,
Good catch on the next gen LEDs. IN the mid-1980s, Paul Bennewitz was told that the Air Force was testing technology just as you and RPJ describe–able to project what was “behind” them (to an observer) on the surface of the craft, making them virtually invisible.
So how much has this technology progressed since then, since we have only heard about it recently? Looks like more and more sightings may have to be looked at as “UMT’s–Unacknowledged Military Technology.