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[New York Post @nypost]

Trump plans to deport Iranians to violence-plagued central African nation in new deal https://t.co/XvdQSPefAT

[Not Your Average Joe @averagejoe27]

FML

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

From the outside it may seem nice, but the inside...

Built in 1902, Maison Hannon is one of Belgium's Art Nouveau treasures.

Designed by Jules Brunfaut, every curve, detail, ornament reflects the optimism, artistry, and imagination.

This is how we used to build.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Zohran Mamdani announces the Knicks watch party he’s been touting outside Madison Square Garden is CANCELLED

Presumably, it’s because these animals have ZERO self-control

They just can’t blame Trump this time 🤣🤡

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

Kids today have no idea how good The Onion was, like when Autistic Reporter Michael Falk delivered this news package, “Train Thankfully Unharmed In Crash That Killed One Man”

[Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2]

Another blow to the Whitmer fednapping prosecution.

To recap: Of the 6 men charged federally--2 were acquitted amid evidence of FBI entrapment, 2 others received a hung jury then convicted at 2nd trial (SCOTUS recently refused one defendant's petition for certiorari) and 2 pleaded guilty.

Of the 8 men who faced state charges--3 were acquitted at trial, 2 pleaded guilty, and 3 were convicted at trial. But now one of those convicted defendants just had his verdict overturned by MI appellate court.

[dany @danywander]

a reminder that branding matters.

[Beauty Explorer @beautyexplorer0]

Hawaii, USA

[Not Your Average Joe @averagejoe27]

Cassette Deck Vader - Episode 1 https://t.co/rU3NhhCMgd via @YouTube

[ElectroFluidSystems @ElectroFluidSys]

Boeing's 6th-Gen Stealth Fighter F-47 Phoenix Based on Northrop Grumman's "Christmas Tree" Fighter Concept Crafted 1983 by Darold Cummings (Designer of the YF-23 Black Widow)

Yesterday, we have seen a first video release of the X-Plane demonstrator for @Boeing's new 6th-gen stealth fighter F-47 Phoenix which is obviously based on @NorthropGrumman's "Christmas Tree" fighter concept crafted 1983 by Darold Cummings, the chief-designer of the joint Northrop Grumman - McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) stealth fighter demonstrator YF-23 Black Widow.

The latest 2025 renderings by Reddington777 from https://t.co/7lkgloc2Yw and @RodrigoAvella are amazingly close to what we have see yesterday in the video released by @ProjectFearX. You can find 22 high-resolution images on Rodrigo's project page named "F47 Concept - V4" at https://t.co/hVx7vjOEvY

These are amazing synchronicities. So will the Trump administration allow us to see new F-47 details just before the start of the next @NATO Summit in Ankara from 7-8 July 2026?

We don't know but there is an almost unnoticed video from Pratt&Whitney which was released by @RTX_News on 24 June 2025 without an official press article just before the start of the @NATO Summit in The Hague from 24-25 June 2025 and shows an interesting front view for F-47 type of next-generation fighter: P&W XA103 https://t.co/1SZBXpOQpj

On 18 February 2026, RTX released the official press article "Fast-tracking the fighter jet engine of the future: How Pratt & Whitney is using digital tools to speed development of its adaptive engine" with a video of the XA103 engine inside a hypothetical design of the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. The XA103 engine is currently under development for the @USAirForce's Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program: https://t.co/m05HoHHaHC

Is this maybe the final production version of the F-47 Phoenix?

It has at least amazing similarities with a design presented by Darold Cummings for a F-47 Navy version named F-47N. See here for more details:

https://t.co/S4pB5yqCGN

Darold writes that he "used (his) original F-47 wing planform, and added a canard for more low speed lift and control. The canard design (inspired by the X-36), coupled with the Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring (inspired by the X-44), provided a very reasonable first cut at a Navy version. In general, a canard layout has been treated as adding more radar signature to a fighter.

However, on the YF-23 we found that if the all-moving surface (it was a V-tail on the YF-23) was kept "ported", in this case aligned with the wing plane during cruise, the impact on LO was not a large impediment to signature reduction. The ability to keep the canard ported is achievable using thrust vectoring for trim in cruise and penetration modes."

Regarding the "Chrismas Tree" Fighter Concept, please have a look at
https://t.co/v48tVZZX6Z

Analysis and Composition by
B. Göksel from Electrofluidsystems
6 June 2026

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