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- From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.134917.8748@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan12.001628.6595@wdl.loral.com> <kaufman.726801865@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:49:17 GMT
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- kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
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- >>Such a replacement for the SR-71 exists. I believe that the name
- >>of the new plane is "Aurora" ...
- >No, you have to say:
- >Such a replacement for the SR-71 does NOT exist.
-
- No, the *government* "has" to say that... :->
-
- >IF is existed it's name would probably be Aurora
-
- Well... something exists, but the official name is more than likely no longer
- "Aurora" (if it ever was). But the rest of us have nothing better to call it.
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- >it would probably use a pulse ramjet engine that would
- >leave telltale diamond contrails,
- One of the variants could be using PDWE propulsion...
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- >and it would make a lot of noise with sonic booms.
- Something up there has been shaking up southern cal.
-
- >After all, the SR-71 didn't exist, either [until Lyndon Johnson
- >renamed the YF-12].
-
- Not quite. The YF-12 was around for a while before the SR-71. The YF-12
- first flew in August, 1963, while the SR-71 didn't have it's first flight
- until December 23, 1964. Of course the A-12 beat them both by first flying
- on April 26, 1962. The SR-71 certainly was NOT created simply by "renaming"
- the YF-12. They are considerably different in several areas...
-
- I guess this is pretty much exhausting the sci.crypt relevance,
- BUT... the up/downlink from Keyhole satellites use the absolute
- very best encryption that NSA can generate! So I guess not all
- of it was off topic...
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