Do not confuse optic property that deals with reflection of an impinging ray of light and IR sensor that deal with emissivity that is a property of the temperature of the observed object.

You IR camera track photons emitted. This is why IR can see inside a dark room when an enhanced camera can’t unless there is a minimum level of light (sensitivity). Myth buster probably made the confusion. Behind the mirror there is more beaming light (reflection) that might have saturated the LCD sensor if the room was plunged in the dark. This effect is widely known has the hand mirror that you can use to signal your position to an aircraft on a sunny day.

Please note that I did not see the show. I am only conjecturing.

The Marking on the wing root is the “P” logo of the Boeing Phantom Works.

Thanks. Completely missed that.

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See it below (your pic edited):

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I personally think we need to wait until Friday morning before we go down that route. Whilst Anglo-French partnerships are not necessarily tied to membership of the EU, the indications are that the French will be less friendly if the UK pulls out of the EU.

So whilst we head off to become the 51st State or cap in hand to The Commonwealth, France will be free to take the lead in Europe then.

Let’s… Wait & see. A lot can happen in dark days. And not always the darkest.
Regarding aero, I do think like you that if Fr lost FCAS competition*, MD will pull out. The problem for them will be that Airbus will stay in and the Germans will have cut the bridges as soon as they have secured the Future battle tank.
The dark days ahead are probably for MD, not for the UK.

*the video they released of a work model of a design under Catia with senior member discussing the configuration was very troubling to me. I am not sure that the choice of segregated competition was such a good choice in the end.

Given the way Europe is shaping up of late I wouldn’t want to put all my eggs in the European basket. An F-35 purchase to replace Tornado in early-mid 2020s would be sensible and backstop the failure of a future European project. Having F-35 on hand will also allow Germany to cede the dominant role that France is going to want to play in that European project (for the same reasons).

I very much think so. Add to this the lead role Germany might want to taken in the future battle tank.

It’s a little bit awkward to have a twin engine trainer here. The picture seems to depict something more massive with a canard/strake and deep rooted rear wings suggesting a delta a la J20( ! ) with a blended configuration like the Gripen E.
It looks like more a new fighter jet design than that of lightweight trainer.

But obviously it is hard to guess with only two bad quality pics.
My OHO only.

Egypt Pulls Second Black Box of Doomed Plane Out of the Sea

The second black box of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, a day after Egypt’s investigation committee said the plane’s cockpit voice recorder had been recovered.

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The New York Times.com