(December 30, 2019 at 11:03 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(December 30, 2019 at 10:44 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: Meh. They're getting so that they're launching satelites by the dozens of dozens in even a single launch.Ok..
As you've pointed out. The YB71 helped in/gave rise to the development of the SR-71. Which, as I pointed out, the retirement of the SR-71 puts anything like the Aurora at something of 30 years old as we conjecture.
By now something like the Aurora would already be nearing retirment.... Heck ,even just through air frame fatigue, in favour of something using modern materials and CAD assisted airodynamic design.
Still.. we can but dream and speculate, hey?
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So what leaves a pulsed contrail?
https://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/...ce-aurora/
*Shrug* No idea. Pretty sure the Yanks are trying out quite a few new material sciences when it comes to high performance combat air engines.
Remember seeing/reading about a giant '3D printer' in ceramics that was being used to mass produce lighter and more durable turbine parts to increase engine performance while reducing engine weight in things like the F-22 and F-23's.
Plus... given development lead time, companies would even now be trying to think of what's going to replace the F-22 and 23's that are in service.
I'm just saying/pointing that Aurora speculation is... 'Old' quite frankly. Aironauctic technolgoy, like that of Naval designs, is never/not static. They'd have moved on in the 30 odd years since the idea of Aurora surfaced.
Cheers.
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