'Aurora' still around or cancelled?

Answer 1

There are two things I can tell you with certainty.

1. Those who KNOW aren't talking.
2. Those who are talking DON'T know.

Answer 2

Still Around or Cancelled? how about Neither.
It Never was.

Aurora was a name hung on a suspected secret aircraft program by the Media. Later as part of a disinformation campaign the Government let "slip" that Aurora had been cancelled (it never existed). This was to lead reporters away from the real aircraft projects going on at the time.

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.

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
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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 meant 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 an name assigned by the media to a suspected classified aircraft development project.

Whether or not the project actually existed or not is unknown as it would be classified if it does or did exist. Therefore there is no way to determine if it exists currently or if it ever existed in the past.

I can say one thing with certainty though. It's not the "FY22". There's no such aircraft.

Answer 4

likely to have been cancelled seeing how long the presumed program would have lasted. Just like Boeing's Bird of Prey, it has likely morphed into the unmanned classes of aircraft.

Answer 5

It was never an official name it was just the name the media gave to a secret jet that never officially came out.

Answer 6

The Aurora was discontinued many many moons ago.... so was the brand that made it, Oldsmobile.

Answer 7

it's the FY22