[Biggirl]

Well, THANK both Matt Drudge and the UK Mail for getting the word OUT.

[tanknetter]

Don't forget the Smithsonian's Air and Space Magazine!

[tlb]

>>> Well, THANK both Matt Drudge and the UK Mail for getting the word OUT

You actually think a shuttle-clone sitting on a launch pad would escape the notice of the various spy satellites that keep tabs on US rocket sites ? If the Russians, Chinese, British, French, and Israelis know of it, Americans may as well be told.

The prior model space plane avoided such publicity by being cached in a hanger at Groom Lake, being taken out for launch on a large conventional aircraft instead of a rocket. Only after the program was canceled did the technical journals discuss the Blackstar.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/030606p1.xml