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- From: rdd@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.DaCunha)
- Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics
- Subject: Re: Aurora
- Message-ID: <1389@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 10:50:34 GMT
- References: <29JUL199211142373@vxcrna.cern.ch>
- Reply-To: rdd@ukc.ac.uk (Rudnei Dias da Cunha)
- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <29JUL199211142373@vxcrna.cern.ch> cohler@vxcrna.cern.ch (Mike Cohler) writes:
- >A colleague showed me a cutting from one of our national newspapers
- >yesterday in the UK, saying that the "top secret" Aurora aircraft
- >had been heard/seen in the area of Machriahanish (Spelling ?) in Scotland.
- This has been reported in the May issue of AirForces Monthly. It said that
- unusual activity was being seen in this remote airfield, which was (is?) a
- base for US Navy SEALs and a secondary airfield for NATO aircraft.
-
- >It appears that the runway of this rather remote Scottish airfield
- >is long enough to handle the Aurora, and that the tell-tale "smoke-ring
- >trail" had been seen behind the aircraft.
- >[...]
- What is this "smoke-ring trail"? Anything to do with the engine?
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- Rudnei Dias da Cunha
- rdd@ukc.ac.uk
- Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, United Kingdom
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