posted on Mar, 11 2023 @ 11:56 AM
originally posted by: SPYjpf
zee fastest plane in the world
where is this plane you ask?
i think its baced near my town
The MicroCraft X-43 now holds the record for the fastest air-breathing aircraft, having attained a speed of Mach 9.8 on its last flight in November
2004.
The 1985 Pentagon aircraft procurement document P-1 mentioning the name Aurora for aircraft procurement in FY 1986 and FY 1987 was first reported by
the
Los Angeles Times and
Washington Post in February 1985:
www.latimes.com...
www.cia.gov...
The 1985
LA Times report suggested that the procurement funding codenamed Aurora could be either for the B-2 or F-117, and Ben Rich's 1994
memoir about his time at the Lockheed Skunk Works confirmed suggestions that Aurora was merely the Pentagon codename for funding B-2 procurement.
Speculation that Aurora referred to a replacement for the SR-71 stemmed from the name Aurora appearing next to the Lockheed TR-1 tactical
reconnaissance version of the U-2R in the P-1 procurement budget document. In an interview for Science Channel’s TV show
Black Files
Declassified, Colonel Adelbert W. “Buz” Carpenter explained: “Aurora looked like a reconnaissance program but, in fact, [represented] a lot
of production money that was to be used for the B-2.”