Death Valley Off-Road Adventures

Oh look! Doritos!

 

Very possible thats the B-21 Raider. It’s been doing flight tests out of Edwards with T-38 escort.

 

I’m wrong. That’s a B-2. Just looked at the B-21 it aft section doesn’t have as many jagged edges for lack of a better term.

 

The chase plane is more interesting in that photo. What the hell is it?

 

The two planes do look very much alike with the 21 having a shorter wingspan. Most of the rest of the differences are internal.

 

Closer shot of the chase from below.

 

OH shit....thats RAT55. Flys out of Area 51. Is used to test the stealthiness (radar signature) of stealth aircraft

https://www.twz.com/air/worlds-most-secretive-737-rat55-just-made-a-rare-public-appearanceaircraft.

 

Yeah, so the chase plane is in fact far more interesting. I didn’t have an effing clue when it flew over and I honestly was puzzled that there was something I’d never seen before above me. Tracked it down, it is the illusive NT-43A callsign RAT 55:

https://www.twz.com/40003/the-world...howed-its-bizarre-self-over-the-mojave-desert

The folks providing pictures for that article didn’t use an iPhone.

EDIT: Lol! Cross posted with @Airdog who didn’t need to use the internet to figure it out.

 

Looks like a signal intelligence kind of plane it’s not an EC135 but like that.

 

Not that anyone probably cares, but I only had a wide angle lens for my "real" camera when the B-2 and NT-43A flew over because I was taking this photo a few minutes before:

 

Nice one.

Is this Devils Cornfeild? Or the space between highway 190 and the dunes?

 

Yep!