Originally posted by Jezza
Using the name 'Super Valkyrie' could just be a cover or simply disinformation but i have heard of "Brilliant Buzzard "
[edit on 23-4-2006 by Jezza]

Maybe not! The Valkyrie was the XB-70 experimantal Mach 3 bomber. Prehaps the Name 'Super Valkyrie' came about because someone was trying to explaine what they saw. If that is the Case, It gives us a clue to what this secret aircraft looks likes and maybe even where the idea for it's design came from.

For Example: The GD/MDD A-12 Avenger II was nicknamed "The Flying Doritto". While this name sounds funny, it does conjure up the image of a huge triangle-shaped airframe that looks almost like a chip, which turned out to be the shape of the A-12. Perhaps this craft is an enlarge, slightly modified XB-70 Derrivative!

Tim

Maybe a task intended for this plane is to hunt out and strike space threats to US satellites.

Originally posted by wildcat
If we have aircraft such as the B-2 and the Raptor we dont need another aircraft. Plus funding for these things is horrible just look at the B-2, that project was almost dumped for its bill. So the US is rich but not that rich. Believe it or not, the government has these weird projects like studying how Americans wash their dishes and bicycle study.

[edit on 23-4-2006 by wildcat]

You obviously forgotten one of the basics of modern air superiority. By the time it's an operational aircraft, it's obsolete technology. The funding for the B-2 and Raptor is pure fiscal smokescreen for projects like the Aurora and Super Valkyrie. Not even the best auditors at the GSA can penetrate the maze of the defense budget much less the black defense budget. Like the the guy said in the movie, Independence Day, you really didn't believe the gov't paid $2k for a hammer.
I would like to see less of my money spent on defending corporate interests and foreign oil fields and more on the Super Valkyrie style projects. If you're some nuclear armed terrorist trying to penetrate the country through one of the borders and a ufo style craft comes and beams them aboard and drops them off in shark infested waters far off the major shipping lanes, wouldn't you say it's money well spent? Be afraid of what you know, be more afraid of what you don't know.

With each day that passes I'm more convinced that the Aurora aircraft (or projects under its umbrella) never took off. I honestly think that After the Cold War all those projects went south and that there is a bunch of technology like the YF-23 collecting spiderwebs inside a hangar with a ton of destroyed tools...

Perhaps as the China threat rises, some of them will be reactivated but if you ask me, none of these planes are flying and yes I do believe all satellites are launched from the Cape using Atlas and Delta rockets.

Wow, way to necro a 3 1/2 year old thread! Sorry do not really have anything else to add right now. Just heading to bed.

The original Valkyrie was a great concept and a useful testbed. I think sometimes it's easy to forget that things can be useful for what they prove or disprove, and not just as a means to some other end. In the case of this aircraft, if indeed they've dusted off the old files, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that they are trying to continue the research done by the original. After all, the original concept wasn't in the air all that long and IIRC the planes came to untimely ends. So the research was ended prematurely. Furthermore, advancements in computer technology since the original project (which is virtually all of it) may indeed make further testing bear heretofore unseen fruit.

Not that I think I'll be whipping off to my summer home in Svalbard in my compression-lift private jet next summer.

Why is NASA left in the "slow lane"?...

imo,

NASA is a front for the militarization of space...