Did I See the Aurora?

the D-21 drone could only be launched intentionaly
as piggy back of a blackbird !
all existing drones have been in storage at davis monthan till end of high secret level and some of the drones are now in musea on public display.

looks to me like the A.V. Roe vulcna bomber


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vulcan was kind a long range plane full of fuel with a payload that could be an atomic bomb.

taken out of RAF service a while ago now and i think none of them will be flying again

check this out odd lighte
[img]http://www.walneyisle.co.uk/cards/dscf9279.jpgimg]

[Edited on 19-5-2004 by leejones]

smile !

you've just been photographed !

here is the good link

www.walneyisle.co.uk...

I finally know definitively what it was we saw. Bad news: it wasn't the Aurora. I saw a NOVA special called "Battle of the X-Planes," in which Boeing and Lockheed Martin went head-to head to win a government contract to build the next-generation JSF. I am 100% certain the plane we saw was Boeing's version:
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So it wasn't the Aurora, but it was still really cool to see. The strange thing is that the contract was awarded to Lockheed a year before we saw this plane....why was it still flying?

[edit on 19-11-2004 by Station]

It was still flying for the same reason the YF-23 was still flying for a number of months after it lost to the F-22 - possible overseas contracts. The US government isnt the only Government that might be interested in a new plane.

I'm a bit sceptical about the siteing of this aircraft that you thought was the aurora but turned out to be the x32. in the photo you can see what appear to be inlerts of some kind and on the x32 the inlet not inlets is on the under side of the fuselage so would not be as prenounced in the photo. also the plane looks remarkably like the lockheed martin proposal for the bomber version of the raptor and it is possible that they have completted a prototype for testing in early stages aand that is what i think is in the photo

It possible could've been the rumored A-17, Deltawing YF-23 bomber