Talk:Boeing Bird of Prey

"Government sponsored norm" This is interesting. Could anyone expand on this?

On a different note: I think the name "Switchblade" has been reassigned to a skew-wing [one wing swept forward, one swept back; its weird, but so is the Nighthawk] aircraft project- can anyone confirm or discount this?
 * The Switchblade codename shift for the skew-wing was published last autumn, I believe. 131.207.236.198 11:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Not so new
This bit: ''the Bird of Prey was otherwise key in the development of a new kind of low-visibility camouflage. Areas that are usually lit most brightly (such as the horizontal flat surfaces over the wings and the top of the fuselage) were painted more darkly, and areas that are usually not quite as bright (such as the sides of the fuselage and other more vertical surfaces) were painted a lighter shade of gray[citation needed]. This reduced the overall contrast of the aircraft, making the whole shape appear to be one relatively even shade of gray''

This is an old concept in camouflage; see the Wikipedia article on Countershading. Besides being found in nature it has also been long used on aircraft, notably during WW2. Roarshocker (talk) 05:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed - I have deleted the paragraph as being non-notable. Letdorf (talk) 13:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC).


 * I think it is interesting and relevant enough, if you take out the language about it being "a new kind of low-visibility paint". It is interesting to know the method which they used to paint the aircraft and why they painted the different areas those different colors. To admit my ingorance, I was not aware that "countershading" was a thing, and I might never have known at all if I hadn't stumbled into this talk page and seen it. So you delete the factual information about the interesting paint technques used on it to minimaize visual presense, and now the article is about things like how the Bird was "used as a test bed for active camouflage and color shfiting surfaces", and other unikely stuff cooked up on interent message boards. Because of course, it LOOKS really badass and futuristic, so it stands to reason they'd use it as a testbed for invisibility camouflage (they just aren't telling the public the real story!!!!!1!).
 * Never mind that they could test active camoflage perfectly well on a Cessna, or any other surplus aircraft they have lying around.

People don't seem to realize this is basically just the aeronautic equivalent of a concept car at a show: looks very fast and futuristic, ready to go and tear up the autobahn at 190mph in self-driving mode, power scissor doors, full-glass sunroof....but in actuallity it's just got a small electic motor and some car batteries and is only able to roll in and out of the show room under its own power. Or more like it's actually built on the drivetrain of a Toyota Yaris. A commercial turbofan and mechanical controls....but look at that shape! You know there's some alien technology in there somewhere, clearly the governmebt is lying about something! But I'm off track. You didn't need to delete that whole section, you could have just changed it a little, or at LEAST left something like "the paint scheme of the Bird of Prey featured a well-known type of visual camouflage known as countershading to minmize the visual impact of different areas of the fuselage". That way people can actually learn something new, and they don't have to know what countershading is already in order to look at the plane and understand what they are seeing. One of my biggest pet peeves with wikipedia is editor's tendecy to write articles expressly for people who already know all about the subject. That seems to be defeating the true purpose of wikipedia, but it is the easiest way to show off your in depth knowledge, by utterly disregarding the basic information a newcomer might need to grasp the subject (not that I'm accusing you of doing that here, but it's similar in a way).

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