Righty.
I have been plugging away at the keyboard and I have come across a massive discrepency within the defence / research community regarding their time
lines of hypersonic flight.
OK, first have a read of this - This article is all 'ground test' this, 'ground test' that. Nothing at all has been flown or developed.
HyTECH
It seems that in 2001 this tech wasn't even at the starters blocks let alone an air test vehicle.
So.... how come we have 90,000 feet airquakes at MACH 5 to 6 in... 1991.
Yes thats 1991. Again its the same dates as my first post stated, but this is at 90 THOUSAND FEET ! and MACH 5 to 6 !
Two years later, the Blackbird was retired. In June 1991, the first in a series of unexplained shock waves rolled across the Los Angeles basin,
rattling doors and windows and making people think of earthquakes. But they were not earthquakes, and the military adamantly denied that any of its
vehicles caused the booms. In May of this year, I consulted with Dom Maglieri, an ex-NASA sonic-boom expert who has played a key role in the
development of low-sonic-boom aircraft. We studied 15-year-old seismograph data from the California Institute of Technology, whose uniquely sensitive
sensors could actually track the booms. â€The data showed something at 90,000 feet, Mach 4 to Mach 5,†Maglieri says now. The booms did not
look like refracted, â€over the top†booms, as other reports had indicated-booms from aircraft miles away that had traveled up through the
atmosphere and bent down toward Los Angeles. The booms looked like direct overflights by a supersonic
Popsi
and this........
The existence of high-supersonic aircraft projects has been inferred from sighting reports, the repeated, unexplained sonic booms over the US and
elsewhere, the abrupt retirement of the SR-71 and from the focus of white-world programs, such as NASP and follow-on research efforts such as the
USAF's HyTech program. The latter have consistently been aimed at gathering data on speeds in the true hypersonic realm - well above M6, where
subsonic-combustion ramjets give way to supersonic-combustion ramjets (scramjets) - implying that speeds from M3 to M6 present no major unsolved
challenges.
Janes
MACH 6 presents no unsolved challenges BEFORE 2000 ! thats because Lockheed and Adroit systems figured it out and ran with it.
So, the data doesn't lie, but the military establishment does it seems. fair enough, they want the wraps kept on their technology i can understand
that, but so blatantly and badly ?
Right, so we see that this is at 90.000 feet. Rememebr our test pilot from the first post ? looks like he has the worlds altitude record firmly under
his belt.
Now, lets have a look at a flight test patch. Here it is.
Now does that look familiar at all ? yes it does. This is the patch for the MACH 8 full speed version of LoFLYTE. They just changed the name from
LoFLYTE to HyTECH.
Ingeniouse, hide it in plane sight. (pun intended).
So, we do have a test pilot who I am 95 % sure flew this mach 8 monster high over continental USA causing airquakes, and maybe even into europe and
further afield, we do have the people who took it to fruitation (Lockheed) and now we have caught the defense establishment in a bare faced lie.
The HyTECH patch is from early 1990's. BEFORE even they admit the engines were ready.... in the white world that is.
Now, here is the final nail in the coffin. People always say 'but if they had it they would let commanders in the field use it to save lives'.
That is a 100% false hood and I can prove it. Step forward the special access gate keeprers. Lets see what they have to say.
A senior officer on the Joint Staff remarked that "we still treat certain capabilities as pearls too precious to wear - we acknowledge their value,
but because of their value, we lock them up and don't use them for fear of losing them".
janes2
That report is damming because it shows that the US would rather duplicate technology than share it out, would rather hide it from commanders in the
field than us it at ground level, and would rather have duplicated technologial efforts kept secert from teams working on the same problems.
In short people I think we have the whole answer.
The NRO wanted a space plane for real time quick targetting and recce use. A massive prog went under way to provide it and they got it in early 1990s
and it was hidden from every one but the tier I user.
Now, we see the rest of the world catching up to what is already established technology with all of this white world research and development.
In short, what needed to be shared and Aurora stayed hidden even from those who needed it. Thats why the time line is wonky, the black was working far
far faster and harder than the white and they just confused themselves with all of their secrecy.
The data doesn't lie - this was well up and running almost 10 years before the white world effort even started.
[edit on 5-6-2008 by Dan Tanna]
