Black project "Blackstar" comes into the light.
Hello All,
While searching XB-70s on the net I found this link http://www.aviationweek.com/avnow/ne...s/030606p1.xml Could this really be the outcome of XB-70 AV3 20208. Which was a lot changed from AV1 & AV2? Didn't large pieces of this unfinished airframe go "missing" from Palmdale, do I recall site 3 and or 8 being mentioned. I read somewhere that many of the YJ-93 engines were unaccounted for as many as half the 30+ completed. Does a US citizen member wish to ask GE about that under FoIA? Please excuse my ignorance if this appears naive, perhaps our more tecnologically errudite members can advise? Would a Ram-Jet or Pulse Detonation engine work better with a (Mach 3)flying start? Are these alleged craft launched from beneath the mother ship because of lessons learnt from the D-21 problems? I have serious difficulty with the C-5 aspects of the article, unless the cheek pods were removeable like the old speed-pak on a constellation. As for a CIA C-5 coded CL I'm sure someone somewhere would have noticed it, however wasn't CL a lockheed design prefix of years ago? Given the airlift commitments facing USAF at the moment and over recent years I'm sure you would have to have a gold plated high value reason take over a major asset like a C-5. I know about the C-5Cs the actual USAF C-5C (Space Cargo Modified) aircraft are 80213 and 80216, but they have never been true airlift assets have they? Have they ever been noted on regular air force duties? Do they ever leave ConUS except to collect damaged TR-3/RF-23 airframes from Boscombe Down? Be lucky David Truman Would love to know where those engines went/are |
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