What happened to the Aurora?
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What happened to the Aurora?
Watching an episode of the X Files and was reminded of the aircraft called the Aurora.
Aurora (aircraft) - Wikipedia
Seems to have gone quite. Did it ever exist?
Aurora (aircraft) - Wikipedia
Seems to have gone quite. Did it ever exist?
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Kill you and eat you, just to be certain.
NO.
It never existed.
It never existed.
Your never heard it here. . .
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As myths and legends go it's certainly one that `could` be true, if only in part.
We have the 117, B2 and reportedly a new B2 on the cards. So it could have been an intermediate design even if it never got off the concept board.
We have the 117, B2 and reportedly a new B2 on the cards. So it could have been an intermediate design even if it never got off the concept board.
Tape Format.
According to Wikipedia, it was videoed by a (extreme) plane-spotter:
" I had an insulated face mask and two sleeping bags, so I didn't present a heat signature. I videotaped the aircraft through a telescope with a five-hundred-millimeter f4 lens coupled via a C-ring to a high-eight digital video camera with five hundred and twenty scan lines of resolution, which is better than TV."
However, Hi8 is an analogue tape system, so 'high-eight digital video cameras' definitely do not exist; I don't know about the aircraft's existence.
" I had an insulated face mask and two sleeping bags, so I didn't present a heat signature. I videotaped the aircraft through a telescope with a five-hundred-millimeter f4 lens coupled via a C-ring to a high-eight digital video camera with five hundred and twenty scan lines of resolution, which is better than TV."
However, Hi8 is an analogue tape system, so 'high-eight digital video cameras' definitely do not exist; I don't know about the aircraft's existence.
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Sony’s High-8 camcorders had the moniker Digital Video Recorder. I still scart my DVR TRV-36 to the back of a video recorder and then using digital out from camcorder to laptop to when copying across old videos. BBC’s Test Pilot was the last one…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digita...log_recordings
As far as the Aurora crash at Boscombe goes, any denial was seen by the jurno who came up with the story as conformation it occurred. He never could accept that the C5 was carrying helicopters for a trial in the US. The unmarked executive jet was Sting/Tom Cruise/Duke of Westminster (whoever) using Boscombe as it was close to where they wanted to go. The 'twin tails' were the structure for the Rolling Deck that was being transfered to Boscombe from RAE Bedford. The aircraft wreckage under a tarpaulin was one of the cockpits that now reside in the Boscombe Down Collection museum at Old Sarum. Finally, the road closure for a trailing TRD is possible but IIRC it was actually a trailing hose on a Tristar tanker which delayed one of my trials sorties because half my Herc crew were on the Tristar.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I've told this story before on PPRuNe, but I distinctly remember reading a news story in Flight International in the mid 80s about the 'Soviet Military Power' publication the US DIA used to produce. It reported that at an event when the latest publication was launched, someone noticed a reference to Aurora in it, at which point all copies were hurriedly gathered up and taken away. A new updated one was released a few weeks later without any reference.
Of course, this could all have been a ruse to convince us that it did indeed exist.
Of course, this could all have been a ruse to convince us that it did indeed exist.
SR-72
If i am correct, decade back Lockheed Martin said they were going to build
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/all-...-cancellation/
Then couple of years down the line they denied it etc
and then
https://theaviationist.com/2023/11/0...-isr-platform/
Confused dot com.
Merry xmas
cheers
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/all-...-cancellation/
Then couple of years down the line they denied it etc
and then
https://theaviationist.com/2023/11/0...-isr-platform/
Confused dot com.
Merry xmas
cheers
I remember JANES had an Aurora entry in the early 90s.
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