Well, it was different anyway 😉

I have not found much about it (since seeing it for the first time today), but my first impression (mostly from wikipedia) there was nothing the Germans hadn’t tried before.

Futuristic looking more than advanced IMO.

There were other designs like it before (shapewise anyway) and none of the concepts involved actually made it into mainstream aircraft design. So unless we adapt those concepts in the future, it really didn’t advance anything.

Why would there be 303 cases in a crashed fighter?

(I am presuming the word ‘cases’ refers to the brass cartridge case containing the propellant and primer)

Moggy

Thats a very sharp observation.

Now i also wonder about the use of the word “cases”.

Yes, most of the search was in Nevada, also the Google Earth search. This was the official call from Civil Air Patrol. Despite A California highway patrolman having reported seeing Fossetts plane near Mammoth Lakes on Sep 3 (the area where the plane has now been found).

“A California highway patrolman saw Fossett’s plane flying at a low altitude near Mammoth Lakes in midmorning, and a ranch hand reported seeing the plane disappear around a ridge to the west of Nevada’s Mount Grant—the last confirmed sighting of Fossett.”

When CAP was conducting a search so far from the last confirmed sighting, surely heads must now roll.

The wreck has been confirmed, as being the aircraft Fossett flew.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FOSSETT_SEARCH?SITE=MITRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I know plenty of people in the aviation industry, that have absolutly no private interest in aviation (including air force pilots).

As Bruce points out: the lack of certain historic items, simply makes the ones we have more special.

Here is some artwork and a picture from a press release.

it seems Weta workshop is going to use 10 full scale lancaster models, possibly made in China.