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- From: dsnyder@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
- Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics
- Subject: Re: Aurora Revealed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.104607.1901@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:46:06 EST
- References: <1jc367INNs06@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan18.212347.15566@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH
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- In article <1993Jan18.212347.15566@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, jagnow@al.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Jagnow) writes:
- > In article <1jc367INNs06@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ak336@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John
- > Dill) writes:
- >>
- >> LAX to JFK in 20 minutes? Altitudes of 200,000+ at speeds over
- >> mach 8.....200,000-300,000 lbs. gtw external combustion (methane)
- >> Tell us more!!!!!!!!!
- >
- > Question: If this technology is available, why is NASA still spending money to
- > develop a 'Aero-Space Plane' ?
- > It would seem to be significant that there are no more millitary shuttle
- > missions scheduled. (Does Aurora have orbital capabilities?)
- > It would also seem that Aurora became operational sometime before the SR-71 was
- > retired.
- > Perhaps NASA has been passed by in air/space technology. It would seem that a
- > re-thinking of funding priorities is in order.
-
- I'm sure NASA doesn't leak out information just like the military doesn't.
- I do know that the NASP project was for a vehicle (not necessarly military)
- that was capable of speeds between mach 16 and 26. The NASP project is
- currently having funding problems. Our work on high speed flight simulation
- has been curtailed to only a small amount of our overall support and rumor
- has it that the vehicle is being redesigned to a smaller configuration.
- Flight characteristics are interesting. California to Florida in 35 minutes.
- Now that would make a gulf weekend fishing trip doable. David--
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- dsnyder@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- 513-255-7557 Dayton, Ohio USA
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