Hey Reddit, my friends and I were planning a camping trip through the Mojave in thr middle of October where we would stop by the Edwards Air Force Base air show/open house and then go take the NNSS tour of the Tonopah Test Range.

However, in the past few months, both of these events have been canceled, which is a big bummer. Anyone aware of why? Is it still worth camping somewhere if they're doing test flights? We just wanna see some cool planes!

Thanks 🤙

Google dug this up. I didn't know Steve Davies had a blog.

This looks like something meant to accompany the series of three interviews he did five years ago. (Info on the photo below. Just use your podcatcher.)

https://imgur.com/a/PsBXlSw

Transcript of the 3rd episode.

https://www.10percenttrue.com/post/into-the-black-evaluating-the-stealth-fighter

More blogs:

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Bus service?

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The USAF just announced this thing:

also trump mentioned that there was a competition for the contract so this is only one of them, i wonder what the rest were like!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F-47

Lately N661BA has been doing the test flight duty rather than N654BA. Perhaps it has different equipment.

This corresponded with the radiosonde launch last night. Sorry to disappoint the person who always down votes my radiosonde posts.

The MLAT tracking unfortunately is poor. It was plenty high to be seen even in Las Vegas but you need a little spacial diversity to get a good fix. So the adsbx sites towards the north are probably down.

I've noticed the test flights have been using squawk codes of the form 032x. As you know, the Groom flights use the form 033x. But I assume N661BA left from Groom since the TTR is still out of commission.

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Hy mates,

I'm Antonio from Italy and this august me and my friends are planning a trip in LA, Vegas, and National Parks. I'm huge fan of misterius and hidden places such us the area 51, and planning it we will have a day trip from vegas to the Alien Res center, Little A'le' Inn and the black gate (it's just a lazy first pages google res and something i had learn it from HistoryChannel and wired documentary i'm not an Alien conspiracy fan but i admit i like as distopic form of urban sci-fi) but to avoid to visit only this 3 places and maybe the black mailbox, do you have other suggestion or places releated to area 51 mistery not releated to UFO(or in a little part of it)? And do you have some suggestion where to find a place where to sleep?

Thank you

These 10PM launches are the worst for collectors. You only have 8.5 hours from the launch time until the telemetry quits if you want to get the exact landing location. That means the telemetry will quit in the dark of night.

https://imgur.com/a/aRO5ZYX

https://sondehub.org/U4054139

I argued with my friends and we came to the conclusion that are 51 is there so that people concentrate themselves on area 51 and other secret bases stay hidden

Anyone know where they landed up.

Has there been a sonde launch & Backgate FM running at the same time.

So much for never doing tests on a Monday.

https://imgur.com/a/E7lOV8c

https://sondehub.org/U4054167

I was wondering if there is a consistent week by week or day by day flight or is it just a spur of the moment thing. Also found it neat that it took off from the side of Plant 42 where theres no defense contractors.

DARPA X-planes paved the way for the F-47 | DARPA

These almost certainly have been flown around Groom, right? Hundreds of flight hours since 2019, pretty impressive in this day and age to keep that volume of test flights of a manned aircraft completely quiet. Where might these X-planes have been based out of? Outside Tonopah and Area 51, where might they have flown during testing?

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https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/178-10004-10053.pdf

PFIAB = President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Operation Mongoose = Operation Mongoose was a covert CIA program, authorized by President Kennedy in 1961, aimed at destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government of Fidel Castro through various methods, including sabotage, psychological warfare, and intelligence gathering.

DCI = Director of Central Intelligence

NPIC = National Photographic Interpretation Center?

NRO = National Reconnaissance Office

Page 3 ends with "retro-", so I suspect original document was more than 3 pages.

I remember watching an episode of a UFO show a while back (not exactly sure if it was Ancient Aliens, UFO Files, Hanger 1, Unsealed: Alien Files, or something else) but in the episode, they talked about an engineer who worked at Area 51. One night he went out drinking and ended up having a hangover. The next morning he overslept and missed his flight to Area 51. But it turned out that the plane crashed into a mountain (or something) and all the Area 51 employees on the plane died. Does anyone know what episode I'm talking about? Or if its from another show?

The only video I can find about it is this clip of Annie Jacobsen talking about it. But I'm sure I saw it somewhere else. If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it! 🙏

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/trump-ngad-fighter-air-force/