Do yo believe the US Military is covering up the Aurora Aircraft?

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Answer 1

Yes, I believe they built it and are not making the fact it's in service known.

Answer 2

Yes there are several Top Secret Experimental Aircraft in research and development right now. They are Classified Top Secret because they have technology in them we dont want other potentially hostile countries to get.

Being Classified Top Secret is NOT the same as "Covering Up" that is a NEGATIVE connotation

And none of them are officially called "Aurora" that is a name hung on any classified and unconfirmed Experimental Aircraft by the Media.

X-Planes
X-37 Orbital Spaceplane Discontinued in 2003

X-38 was a prototype for a crew return vehicle (CRV) that would be attached to the International Space Station

X-39 The designation may be intended for subscale unmanned demonstrators planned under the Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements (FATE) program, which was sponsored by Wright Laboratory (WL) in Dayton, Ohio.

X-40 The Military Spaceplane System (MSP) is a reusable space architecture capable of providing aircraft-like operability, flexibility, and responsiveness, and supporting AF Space Command mission areas. Successor to the X-37

X-41 involves an experimental maneuverable re-entry vehicle carrying a variety of payloads through a suborbital trajectory, and re-entering and dispersing the payload in the atmosphere.

X-42 is an experimental expendable liquid rocket motor upper stage designed to boost 2000-4000lb payloads into orbit.

X-43 Hyper-X Program. Cancelled March 2004

X-44 MANTA Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft

X-45 UCAV. Not the EDI of the Movie Stealth
UCAV Video: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/NEW_UCAV_1st_flight.mpeg

X-46 The UCAV-Navy X-46/X-47 is a program for the Navy version of a UCAV that can be carrier-based.

X-47 Pegasus UCAV

X-48 Blended Wing Body (BWB)

X-49 The X-49 designator remains un-assigned, but at current rate at which new X-Planes are emerging, it won't be too long before there is an X-49

X-50 Dragonfly Canard Rotor/Wing (CRW)

X-51 Scramjet Engine Demonstrator - WaveRider (SED-WR)

Most of these X-Planes are nothing more than design concepts with no real aircraft yet built. others are Technology demostrator vehicles not ment for operational application. a few like the UCAV are real and in development

NONE of them are named Aurora

Most of them that are flying, Fly out of "Area 51"
or the Dryden Research Center

Answer 3

Aurora is the civilian name for a scram jet aircraft design, although it would probably be an unmaned vehical, because it would act more like a missle than a fighter jet. Any sudden movement at mach 10 (the alledged top speed) would land the craft in the dirt, send it into outer space or cause it to shoot off miles off course. It would also cause a human pilot to black out. I think they are working on the generation of aircraft after the F-22.

My thinking is that it will be a "mother ship," that would unload spy \drones, bombs or missles rather than sending pilots on 72+ hour missions. It would fly too fast to do spy missions on its own.

Answer 4

Aurora isn't an aircraft at all, it's a top-secret meteorologic research project. Letting you think they're hiding a back-engineered UFO-inspired aircraft is typical military security mumbo-jumbo. They did that with the Roswell UFO-crash myth, and it worked perfectly to cover up what they were really up to! Worked almost too well, in fact. We learned one thing from the UFO fakery - most Americans are more than a little gullible!

Answer 5

Well, that supposedly super-secret high-speed reconaissance airplane, if it really does exist, shares its name with another aircraft.

The Lockheed CP-140 Aurora (Canadianized P-3 Orion), used for maritime patrol, submarine hunting and search and rescue by the Canadian Forces. And there isn't much that's classified about that aircraft save the equipment that's onboard and its capabilities.

Answer 6

Aurora (also credited as the SR-91 Aurora) is the popular name for a hypothesised American reconnaissance aircraft, believed by some to be capable of hypersonic flight at speeds of Mach 5+. According to the hypothesis, the Aurora was developed in the 1980s or 1990s as a replacement for the aging and expensive SR-71 Blackbird. A British Ministry of Defence report released in May 2006 refers to USAF priority plans to produce a Mach 4-6 highly supersonic vehicle, but no conclusive evidence has emerged to confirm the existence of such a project. It is believed by some that the Aurora project was cancelled due to a shift from spyplanes to high-tech unmanned aerial vehicles and reconnaissance satellites which can do the same job as a spyplane.

In March 1990, the magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology first broke the news that the term "Aurora" was inadvertently released in the 1985 U.S. budget, as an allocation of $455 million USD for "Black aircraft PRODUCTION" in FY 1987. Note that this was for building aircraft, not Research and Development.[2] According to Aviation Week, Aurora referred to a group of exotic aircraft projects, and not to one particular airframe. Funding of the project allegedly reached $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. However, according to Ben Rich, former director of Lockheed's Skunk Works (now the Lockheed Advanced Development Company), Aurora was the code name for the B2 Stealth Bomber competition funding and no such hypersonic plane ever existed (Skunk Works, 1994, Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos).

Lockheed's Skunk Works has been suggested as the prime contractor for the Aurora. Throughout the 1980s, financial analysts concluded that Lockheed had been engaged in several large classified projects, but the known projects could not account for the declared net income. Financial analysts at Kemper Securities have examined Lockheed Advanced Development Company's declared revenues from Black programs:

Returns for 1987 were $65 million.
Returns for 1993 were $475 million.
The only declared Lockheed Black Projects are the U2-R and F-117A upgrade programs, and nothing new has been announced between 1987 and 1993. It was also discovered that the total U.S. budget allocation for Project Aurora for 1987 was no less than $2.27 billion. According to Kemper, this would indicate a first flight of around 1989. The spread of U.S. Government payments to Lockheed indicate that the aircraft is probably about one-fifth (20%) of the way through its development program as of 1992, or has been "extensively prototyped." Around $4.5 billion has already been spent.

A series of unusual sonic booms were detected in Southern California, beginning in mid to late 1991. On at least five occasions, these sonic booms were recorded by at least 25 of the 220 U.S. Geological Survey sensors across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake epicenters. The incidents were recorded in June, October and November 1990, and late January 1991. Seismologists estimate that the aircraft were flying at speeds between Mach 3 and 4 (2300-3000 mph) and at altitudes of 8-10 km (26,200-32,800 ft). The aircraft's flight path was in a north-northeast direction, consistent with flight paths to secret test ranges in Nevada. Seismologists say that the sonic booms were characteristic of a smaller vehicle than the 37-meter long shuttle orbiter. Furthermore, neither the shuttle nor NASA's single SR-71B was operating on the days the booms were registered. It is not definitively known if these events can be tied to the Aurora program or to other acknowledged or secret programs.

In the article "In Plane Sight?" which appeared in the Washington City Paper on July 3, 1992 one of the seismologists, Jim Mori, noted: "We can't tell anything about the vehicle. They seem stronger than other sonic booms that we record once in a while. They've all come on Thursday mornings about the same time, between 6 and 7 in the morning."

Former NASA sonic boom expert Dom Maglieri studied the 15-year old sonic boom data from the California Institute of Technology and has deemed that the data showed "something at 90,000 feet, Mach 4 to Mach 5". He also said the booms did not look like booms from aircraft that had traveled through the atmosphere many miles away at LAX, rather, they appeared to be booms from a high-altitutde aircraft directly above the ground moving at high speeds. The boom signatures of the two different aircraft patterns is wildly different.

And this is the best part as i am from Scotland. Starting in 1991 reports started appearing in Scottish newspapers— including "The Scotsman" —that Aurora was landing and taking off from the Machrihanish airbase on the Kintyre peninsula. Machrihanish was an RAF base with a long runway which was a V bomber dispersal base during the Cold War before being handed over to the United States Navy, which used it as a base for Navy SEALs until 1995. It was alleged that air traffic controllers had seen aircraft on their radars taking off from there and accelerating to high mach numbers. None of the supposed controllers has ever gone on the record. Other have claimed that Royal Marines inadvertently discovered the Aurora in a hangar at Machrihanish but again none of the supposed witnesses have ever gone on the record.

Answer 7

there not covering it up. They have come out and said aurora jets/scram jets exist, but are in the developmental phase

Answer 8

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllll, no. I don't think they're covering it up. If you watch the science channels and discovery channels...they showed a glimpse of it just about a month ago.