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mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:

>In article <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
->Now if you could keep the existence of such a plane secret, perhaps by
->retiring your known spy airplanes with great fanfare and issuing a
->cover story about how they've been completely replaced by satellites,
->then you might actually be able to use it repeatedly before your
->adversary even begins to suspect you have it. Of course, you might
->have to make up another cover story to explain all those sonic booms
->heard on a regular basis here in Southern California...

>Such a replacement for the SR-71 exists.  I believe that the name of the 
>new plane is "Aurora" and that there has been at least one article speculating
>about it in Air&Space.

No, you have to say:
Such a replacement for the SR-71 does NOT exist.  IF is existed it's name
would probably be Aurora, it would probably use a pulse ramjet engine that
would leave telltale diamond contrails, and it would make a lot of noise
with sonic booms.  But those are just funny clouds and earthquakes.  Pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain.  After all, the SR-71 didn't exist,
either [until Lyndon Johnson renamed the YF-12].

-- 
Marc Kaufman (kaufman@CS.Stanford.EDU)