Does the Aurora aircraft really exist?

Question

Does this aircraft exist and if so where did the Americans gain the technology and if it is so clean why cant commercial airliners get this technology and stop polluting us all

is it not true that a guy devloped a carburetor that could run on water and the united states goverment bought the rights to it and then proceeded to shelve the product so it did not reach the market place all because of oil and petrol i guess

Answer 1

It could be all smoke and mirrors.

Why does GM spend $1B to invent an electric car, then quietly quash it?

Answer 2

Nobody really knows what the Aurora is. Since the 1980s there have been much speculation as to whether this craft existed or not. The common conception is that it is some sort of delta-wing aircraft powered with an advanced form of ramjet propulsion (scramjets are being studied at NASA but little public success yet). Pulse-detonation engines have also been speculated but may actually be used in another black aircraft project. As to the source the Yanks have been working on these far-out projects as way back as the 1960s...plenty of time to actually try and build something. As to whether it is "clean" environmentally it could be if it does use certain exotic fuels, however it would be hard to put this into commercial airliners because: 1) the tech as it stands is exotic meaning expensive... 2) It is controlled by the military...dont expect any sudden cooperation with the civil industry yet. and 3) it will not be easily (if at all) retrofittable to commerical liners as it stands...meaning constructing new planes which may be more expensive to operate (i.e. resulting in more expensive air tickets).

Answer 3

No one outside of the military knows the answer to this one for certain --it's still a black project, possibly run out of Area 51 -- though there are any number of speculations as to its existence, and its specifications and capabilities if it does exist.

Depending on who you ask, the Aurora uses some combination of ramjet/scramjet, pulse detonation or even rocket propulsion to speed the aircraft in the Mach 5-8 range. Some supposed eyewitness reports indicate a contrail that resembles "doughnuts on a rope," possibly from the pulse detonation wave engine design.

Regardless of the method of propulsion, they all use a lot of energy to get a craft moving that fast, and they all require the energy to get them up to supersonic speed before their propulsion systems really kick into high gear and run at peak efficiency. Commercial airlines just can't afford the kind of technology required, since you have to use some pretty exotic materials for the skin of the plant to handle the stress and heat of moving that fast. Remember Concorde? It essentially went bankrupt, because it was way too expensive to fly people across the Atlantic in three hours, and it only went something like Mach 2.5. How many people really need to fly around the world in under six hours? And how many people can afford to?

The theory behind the technology is public knowledge; making it economical remains a future goal. It IS cleaner, because most of the variants on the Aurora's propulsion systems rely on either liquid methane, methylcyclohexane, or liquid hydrogen and oxygen mixtures, which woudl burn cleaner than standard jet fuel, but it requires a lot more fuel to be carried onboard to accomplish what the Aurora seems to.

Answer 4

Who knows, I just would like to say this... the SR-71 blackbird yes the 40+ y/o, fastest, highest flying aircraft acknowledged by the United States was retired a little over 10 years ago. On the rational that it was too expensive and satellites could accomplish the same results without putting a aircrew in harms way. The surviving aircraft were picked up by NASA for high speed/high altitude research. If you follow the trend of U.S. aerospace progression, this country never just retires a weapon system without something that supersedes the forerunner!

Answer 5

I have a copy of the video put out by FOX News on file that I think relates to the technology you mention in your question. It's called Water Power. I kept it primarily to see what is going to happen with that technology. In the video it states I think that he drove his car a great distance on 4 ounces of water using it. I'd send it to you but don't have your email address.

Answer 6

The Aurora is the Canadian version of the U.S. Orion submarine hunter and maritime patrol aircraft.

Answer 7

it could if the AF released information on it

Answer 8

Anybody who knows the answer - will not answer.