Message posted by Griffon_314 on February 03, 2006 at 11:32:36 PST:

The article and photo in the AV Press, is very interesting...this may be the first photo to emerge of an undisclosed aircraft design in a long time.

It may in fact be the demonstrator for Lockheed's High Altitude Airship program (HAA).

The "P791" (Project 791?) is a new and interesting moniker, but I did turn up this interesting link:
http://www.hovercrafttraining.com/mediacenter/photo.php?img_id=851&gallery=training§ion=completed

So it appears Lockheed sent these two for hovercraft training. Eric P. Hansen at Lockheed, pictured in that photo, is clearly part of the flight test community there - he received a Jack Northrop award from the Society of Experimental Test Pilots in 2003, for a paper he co-authored on a U-2 avionics program.

More data on Lockheed airship work:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/haa.htm
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/7966.pdf
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0130blimp30.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-03r.html
http://www.videsignline.com/news/166402831

In Reply to: Skunk Works' new craft over Plant 42 posted by adc_dog on February 02, 2006 at 14:40:41 PST:

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