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Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?
Aviation Week & Space Technology ^
| 03/05/2006
| William B. Scott
Posted on 03/05/2006 7:23:35 PM PST by anymouse
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This might explain a few mysteries of aviation and space launcher failures in the 1980s and 1990s.
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:23:44 PM PST
by
anymouse
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:24:24 PM PST
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
XB-70 is out of service. The components that was to be flying with it should be dead as well.
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:30:54 PM PST
by
Wiz
(News hyaena providing you news with spice of acid)
To: anymouse
Aviation Leak and Technology, one of the best propaganda organs currently published in the US. I love them....
Hey....looky over here.....ignore the men behind the curtain....
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:33:49 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: anymouse
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:36:17 PM PST
by
null and void
(I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
To: anymouse
Typical story for Aviation Leak and Spy Technology...sometimes I wonder if Art Bell is in their editorial staff.
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:42:59 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:46:45 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: anymouse
This is an XB-70 with an X15. I have always thought the XB-70 looked like something to base a concept like this on.
To: anymouse
I'm in Okinawa. I can guarantee this space plane never landed at Kadena AB. Such an event would be noticed immediately by the Okinawan base-watchers, who can see all of the runway and flightline area from hills outside the base.
To: anymouse
Now that's a rare post of which I actually read EVERY WORD.
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:51:50 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: JRios1968
Typical story for Aviation Leak and Spy Technology...sometimes I wonder if Art Bell is in their editorial staff.True but it does stimulate ones imagination
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:55:32 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Poundstone
... And Hurlburt Field's runway is too short and it's entire length is clearly visable from a 4-lane US Highway 98. Not the place you'd want something "secret" to land on.
-Traveler
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:56:16 PM PST
by
Traveler59
(Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
To: Poundstone
never landed at KadenaAnd I never saw either of the SR-71's that weren't there in 67 take off at night.
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posted on
03/05/2006 7:57:45 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Would you throw a bucket of water on Hillary if her broom were on fire?)
To: AntiGuv; Army Air Corps
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:00:45 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Atigun; Beckwith; ...
MI Ping
Secret flying things? Imagine that.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:01:50 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Would you throw a bucket of water on Hillary if her broom were on fire?)
To: anymouse
Now facing the possibility that this innovative "Blackstar" system may have been shelved I guess anti-gravity technology powered by zero-point energy inductors has made a lot of systems obsolete.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:02:32 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: fso301
True but it does stimulate ones imagination.Just like Art Bell's show. LOL
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:06:41 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: Traveler59
.. And Hurlburt Field's runway is too short and it's entire length is clearly visable from a 4-lane US Highway 98. Not the place you'd want something "secret" to land on.Well, there's always Duke Field or anyone of a rather large number of Eglin Auxiliary Fields in the area.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:08:12 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: King Prout
This is damned interesting. I have read speculative reports on such aircraft since the late 1980s. If it existed and has been shelved, then it is because we have a cooler toy to take its place.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:10:11 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: BearWash
I guess anti-gravity technology powered by zero-point energy inductors has made a lot of systems obsolete. Why do you think all of those Mars probes were lost? The CIA has been there for decades. They were getting too close to being discovered, and blasted the probes with Mars-based rail guns. I mean, c'mon, did anybody really believe that "meters instead of feet" story...
Dang. What a horrible time to run out of tin foil...
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:16:21 PM PST
by
wyattearp
(The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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