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Old 10-05-2009, 10:19 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I don't get what you're arguing, that they're suppressing an aircraft design from public knowledge? So what? The SR-71 existed for the best part of two decades before it was public knowledge, I don't doubt for a second that planes (equivalent to the Aurora sketch above) exist, using scramjet technology, but as with the SR71, the main use for something so fast is reconnaissance, ergo: the less people know the better, for it to work as intended.

On a side note, Machrihanish isn't overly far from where I stay, and they definatley were operating a "black" airframe from there at some point, local lore dictates, during the base's operation there was always a blatant, high ranking military organisation security presence, stray too far from the golf course, and get accosted by armed (US) personnel. Plus they, for no apparent reason have the longest european runway, and recently upgraded to methane fuel storage facility's (how many planes use methane...?).
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