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- From: kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- Message-ID: <kaufman.726801865@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:24:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.000917.22206@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan10.122415.20405@bernina.ethz.ch> <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan12.001628.6595@wdl.loral.com>
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- mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
- ->Now if you could keep the existence of such a plane secret, perhaps by
- ->retiring your known spy airplanes with great fanfare and issuing a
- ->cover story about how they've been completely replaced by satellites,
- ->then you might actually be able to use it repeatedly before your
- ->adversary even begins to suspect you have it. Of course, you might
- ->have to make up another cover story to explain all those sonic booms
- ->heard on a regular basis here in Southern California...
-
- >Such a replacement for the SR-71 exists. I believe that the name of the
- >new plane is "Aurora" and that there has been at least one article speculating
- >about it in Air&Space.
-
- No, you have to say:
- Such a replacement for the SR-71 does NOT exist. IF is existed it's name
- would probably be Aurora, it would probably use a pulse ramjet engine that
- would leave telltale diamond contrails, and it would make a lot of noise
- with sonic booms. But those are just funny clouds and earthquakes. Pay no
- attention to the man behind the curtain. After all, the SR-71 didn't exist,
- either [until Lyndon Johnson renamed the YF-12].
-
- --
- Marc Kaufman (kaufman@CS.Stanford.EDU)
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