While I was waiting for the Dreamlifter to take off, I got distracted looking at planes on the maps.
D-21 drones from the A-12/SR-71?
Completely baffled. Looks like a C-130 nose, inboard high-mount jets, and a massive (C-141?) tail. Prototype? Amphibious?
Edit: Grrr, I can't get the map to inbed, you'll just have to click the links.
The first ones definitely look like those drones.
The second, maybe a NASA STOL experimental?
The high engines allow them to blow on the flaps (greatly increasing lift). Weird thing about this one is it looks like the engine exhausts go down into the wings. No way those are for prop engines.
I saw C-130s on the south end, a single B1 in the same area, and five or six A10 Warthogs on the north end, plus one in transit between the two sections. Did I miss the one in question?
Found it!:
Boeing YC-14
Boeing's entrant into the United States Air Force's Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition.
In reply to aircooled:
Dude, you rock!!!
New one:
Looks like an F-14 with a fixed delta wing, but it has a really funny looking slat, possibly another swing wing?
I think that is the F-16XL
I believe it was in the same competition as the F-15 Strike Fighter (lost of course).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16XL
That one looks to be the NASA test version that was used to test laminar flow wings (I believe). As I remember it used engine bleed air to try and eliminate the boundary layer over the wing. Testing only on one side of course.
Here it is:
Look what I found at Davis-Monthan. Pretty rare to see a flying aircraft:
In reply to Bobzilla:
Dude, they Street Viewed Davis-Monthan?! 
The thrid one:
High-Speed Research (HSR) - Smoothing the Flow Over Supersonic Wings
We know what this one is, the NASA 747 that carried the Shuttles. Kinda sad to see it:
aircooled wrote: Look what I found at Davis-Monthan. Pretty rare to see a flying aircraft: Flying over the Skyhawks
Clear, focused shot, too. Nice!
Javelin wrote: In reply to Bobzilla: Dude, they Street Viewed Davis-Monthan?!
About 15 years ago I remember standing in the bed of the truck taking pics with a Pentax K1000 and a 300mm zoom lense at the fence of DMAFB.... up until we saw the brown broncos with flashing lights coming out way. we quickly left.
In reply to aircooled:
Lifting Body just NW of it, too. There's an X-1 on a stick elsewhere.
Global Hawks?
aircooled wrote: X29 on a stick: X29
That's next door at the Pima Air Museum.
Javelin wrote: http://goo.gl/maps/r5E2X Global Hawks?
Yep, but from the paint scheme it looks like the Euro Hawk variant.
Interesting Chinese aircraft dump in the home port of their aircraft carrier.
In reply to Javelin:
I know you didn't ask this but, in the first link, I think the ones with the wing tanks are T-33's
In reply to NGTD:
Post up anything you find that's cool! T-33's would certainly apply. The whole DMAFB complex is fascinating.
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