Yeah, i actually knew that the photo of the Aurora refueling (the flying tank-black manta pick) was some hoax that somehow made it into web mythology and got blown out of proportion. That i knew ...however i do think that the US is working on some next-generation plane thingimajig!
I actually envy the folks who will be flying the plane (i am assuming it is manned and not a UCAV, although it could veryw ell be ...although some months ago i managed to 'get into' this closed site where i saw a prototype manned plane, and that was the time i stopped defending Russian Su-30s ...if you recall i used to be quite adamant about Sukhoi efficacy then i suddenly stopped. Well, i saw something that gave me something akin to a wet dream and goosepimples merged into one, and that thing was US. And it made me change my perception of Russian jets, including their stealth berkut and mig-mapo 1.42 forever!)
Anyways that pic of the refueling aurora/black manta is a fake!
At least that is what the spooky men in black trenchcoats told me after they apprehended me and threw me inside their black truck (sarcasm)! They told me to say it was fake ...and that the crazy whirling lights i saw last week were nothing but swamp gas reacting with the northern borealis lights, and that the green guys who stuck probes in places i was told in sunday school are nothing more than just due to light getting refracted off the feathers of migrating geese!
Yes!
Yep ...now let me go take medication because i can hear voices telling me i am the reincarnation of the hindu god Shiva, and my stuffed teddy bear (the one with a yellow parasol and daisies in one hand, and dandelion on the other) just came to life and started dancing a jig while singing the polka!
As i said, time for medication! Shhhh ...who said that!