I once saw an interview with a British guy who was an expert on military aircraft (belive he worked for RAF) who claimed (backed up by a lot of co workers) that while working on an oil rig in the North sea in the late 1980s he once saw something really odd. A KC-135 refuling a completely triangular aircraft, flanked by two F-111. He swore on his life he hadnt seen anything like it before or since, and that he was 100% positive it wasnt a B-2.
Has anyone heard about this incident? And if so, do you know if this “mystery plane” was ever identified? (My guess it was some sort of A-12 Avenger prototype, or just a missidentification, a hoax, a lie, a…)
It was Chris Gibson. Not RAF, but ROC (Royal Observer Corps). The ROC was administered by the RAF. Chris jointly authored the book ‘British Secret Projects: Hypersonics, Ramjets and Missiles’. I served with Chris in the ROC during the mid 1980s before I joined the RAF and he was an expert in instant aircraft recognition. The nearest in shape that he could come up with was the Handley Page HP115.
http://www.netwrx1.com/skunk-works/v06.n024
http://www.militaryextreme.com/viewpage.php?memid=162
http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/product.php?productid=56858
TJ
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