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From: DWN102@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Condor
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Date: 19 Nov 90 00:31:34 GMT
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From: <DWN102@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
In article <1990Nov16.054351.23977@cbnews.att.com>, megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU
(MEGAZONE 23) says:
>
>SR-71, they know we're there but they can't touch us', said one official
>quoted by the newspaper. "With the new technology, they won't even know we're
>there.'"
>
>
  I'm not quite sure how the Air Force expects to hide an aircraft that will be
generating temperatures in excess of 1500 degrees (F) on its nosecone while fly
ing at Mach 5-6.  Temperatures on other areas of the body will be high also, no
t the least of which would be the engine nozzles (scramjets, perhaps?).
>the SR-71. The USAF has stated that it wants a new manned aircraft recon
>system. Given the fact that the A-12/SR-71 was kept secrect for so long
>and more recently the F-117, it wouldn't surprise me if an Aurora was
>flying now.
>
You may be right, late last year I read an article on black programs in Aviatio
n Week in which Aurora was mentioned.  Supposedly there have been reports of a
very loud airplane operating over the Mojave Desert in California, during preda
wn hours.  Aviation Week seemed to think that this was Aurora.  They also said
that a scramjet could account for the 'screeching' noise that the plane was rep
orted to have.  I believe they also quoted an unnamed Air Force source as say-
ng "Aurora is so black, you won't here anything about it in public for 10-15 ye
ars".  That's all I remember about the article.
      David W. Neeld
      Penn State University