I’ve just found this photo and wandered if any of you know what the plane is called?
It’s called “Hollywood”. It was prop for a movie, I don’t know which one. It was the subject of a thread in this forum last year.
I think the movie’s called ‘’ Stealth ‘’
Holy I-doubt-that-could-ever-REALLY-fly Batman. 
Looks neat just sitting there though…
A movie with Jessica Biel !!! [angel][:P]
Pollux-in-love
Now that is truly one ugly airplane. It’s designer needs to be shot.
A really ugly concept of an aircraft. What were they thinking ?
Regards, Rick
actually it is based on a real design called the Jackknife
Cool! I want one! I’ll set it beside my F-19!!
My friend sent me that photo a couple weeks ago. I think it’s kind of cool looking, but as a real aerospace engineer, I can’t see how any engineer in their right mind would design such a thing. My first thought was, “I think it was designed to combat the Russian Firefox!”
It’s actually so ugly that it becomes beautifull again… [8D]
I thought I saw this thing sitting pierside at NAS North Island a few months back. It’s definitely a prop.
Yeah, if you see this aircraft on a Carrier Deck with this pilot inside it, my advice is to get below deck with all haste!! [:O]
[:)]
Take care,
Frank
Yep, I just discovered that this is a still for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star motion picture "Stealth“. Parts of the movie were filmed on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
It’d make a good scratchbuild project though[:D]
Yup! My daughter spent a week on the Lincoln last summer and took some pictures of this Thing. I’ll have to talk to her and see if she still has them. The movie is supposed to be released this coming July. I hope the model companies don’t waste their time and money on this contraption. There are too many unmodeled “real” airplanes to work on.
Darwin [alien]
If the Cold War was still on, the Navy could have “exposed” this a couple of times and let the Russian military analysts ponder what it was. [;)]
Over at IMDb.com, they have more information listed under “Trivia”.
Stealth (2005)
Trivia: Production stills of this film were leaked and circulated (incorrectly) as photos of a secret test of a new military fighter aircraft. The stills, shot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, show a fighter launching from the carrier with “pilot” Jessica Biel in the cockpit, but were misidentified and circulated as tests of the Navy’s new F/A-37 Talon fighter, a non-existent aircraft. The carrier was also misidentified as USS George Washington.
I am reminded by that photo, along with lodn_k’s quip about old Testors F-19 “Stealth Fighter” kit, of an assignment I got in the mid-80’s:
An editor called me over one slow news day and handed me a piece of wire copy from AP. It was a story out of Washington about one blithering bullethead* in Congress demanding to know why some Commie leaker in the Pentagon was giving away our military secrets to a model airplane company. My editor, knowing I was the only modeler on the staff of the Houston Chronicle said, “Here, write some light human interest something with this story.”
I didn’t know what to do with it besides laugh, but I called up a couple of hobby shop owners I knew and they said it was selling well. I called some modelers I knew and they said what I would have said if I’d been interviewing myself: It was a crappy kit whose design was based on nothing more than the fact that it looked cool and nothing else. Desperate for anything, I called the editor of FSM up in the North Country, who at that time was maybe Bob Hayden(?) I recall he was sort of grumpy and said something like (and I paraphrase very loosely from memory here): “Well, what do you want me to say about it? It’s plastic, in a box and looks like an airplane.”
Two years later, we got our first photo of the F-117 in silhouette, and of course we now know it’s Darth Vader’s helmet with wings on it. No elegant curves. No cool gray finish. No snappy canted-in fins (though everyone knew that whatever came out was going to have fins sticking some weird way, so I guess Testor’s gets a “near miss” on that one).
But, anyway, my newspaper article came out on Tuesday and on Wednesday was used to train puppies and wrap fishheads. America remained intact and safe from its dark, lurking enemies in the hobby industry. And it reminds us once again, that no matter which way we swing politically, we can always sleep well knowing that great minds are looking out for us in the United States Congress.
*My own editorial disclaimer, re: “Blithering bullethead”: I don’t know who it was, so that’s not a political statement, OK? The description was and is my assessment based upon my finely honed observations as a sharp-eyed, keenly trained journalist.
a wordsmith indeed, tom [:)]
Imagine what aerospace engineers of the 40’s would have thought of the F-117 [:D]
I remember that F-19 kit. When I first was it all I could think of wah “this is what happens when you cross an SR-71 and a Wham-o 165 gram frisbee.”
Roman