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Author:  KAPTOR [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 05:04 am ]
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it's very late, but I was looking at pics of a green colored F-117 tonight, will try to evaluate and post tommorow.
Author:  da big man! [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:42 am ]
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Green?!?!?!?

I think you need some more sleep Kaptor :lol:
Author:  KAPTOR [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 13:03 pm ]
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I DEFINATLY need more sleep but yeah, it's a khaki green, but I'm thinking it aint paint.
Author:  da big man! [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 15:55 pm ]
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Do you have any pics?
Author:  KAPTOR [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 18:30 pm ]
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Author:  da big man! [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 19:32 pm ]
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I can make out what appears to be tan near the stabilizers. Are you sure that isn't desert camo?

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Author:  Afishfood [ Wed Jan 21, 2004 19:50 pm ]
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Those are just old photographs of Lockheed "Skunk Works" prototype F-117 in its testing and operation phases. It was never meant to be a production model of the F-117 knighthawk. :oops:
Author:  KAPTOR [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 01:33 am ]
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and you base that on what?
Author:  CAG Hotshot [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 16:45 pm ]
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Well Kap, I to can see varying shades of green and browns in your photo... It seems to add up to the same pattern displayed in the other Photo that the USAF claimed was the original test aircraft setup for testing in the desert back in the early 80s or late 70s....
Author:  CAG Hotshot [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 16:46 pm ]
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Plus that Ford Dualie Pickup seems to also be from that time frame...
Author:  da big man! [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 16:47 pm ]
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Perhaps it is this aircraft-

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Author:  KAPTOR [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 19:44 pm ]
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I have 19 other pics of this plane and there is no camo pattern to it whatsoever, the differing "colors" are coming from the higher or lower reflection of light on the angled surfaces of this plane.

It appears to be at Tonapah rather than Groom Lake since I dont believe any rail-road tracks run through area 51 lol. I believe these may be the earliest non-official pics of the F-117 being towed from one place to the other (notice the large nearly all moving rudders are not installed) with a brown tarp covering the plane to protect it from sattelite view, before it had been made public. There also appear to be pieces missing from this side of the nose also pointing to the idea that it was getting maintainance and going from one hanger to another.

Many of you have probobly already tracked down the origin of these pics, but there is no info there unfortunatly.
Author:  da big man! [ Thu Jan 22, 2004 21:35 pm ]
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If the pics were taken at Groom Lake then they would have been destroyed long ago! (and you'd probably have men in black kicking down your door).

But why don't you post some of those other pics KAP? This is the first I've seen of them.
Author:  KAPTOR [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 00:34 am ]
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I said they probobly WERN'T taken at Groom Lake.

So far I've been able to find out that they were taken on Jan-12, but I havent learned what YEAR! rofl

I may post more , but they aint my pics so I dont wnt to go crazy and make somebody who might be usefull in the future go all Mike Tyson on my a$$ lol

Ok he has just told me the pics were taken this year, so Jan-12 2004.
Author:  CAG Hotshot [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 13:26 pm ]
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You know, it does look tarp covered.... perhaps the entire aircraft is tarp covered?

Do you have additional pics showing the tarp?
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