🚀 go-pugleaf

kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:

 >>Such a replacement for the SR-71 exists.  I believe that the name 
 >>of the new plane is "Aurora" ...
 >No, you have to say:
 >Such a replacement for the SR-71 does NOT exist.  

No, the *government* "has" to say that... :->

 >IF is existed it's name would probably be Aurora

Well... something exists, but the official name is more than likely no longer
"Aurora" (if it ever was).  But the rest of us have nothing better to call it.

 >it would probably use a pulse ramjet engine that would 
 >leave telltale diamond contrails,
One of the variants could be using PDWE propulsion...

 >and it would make a lot of noise with sonic booms.
Something up there has been shaking up southern cal.

 >After all, the SR-71 didn't exist, either [until Lyndon Johnson 
 >renamed the YF-12].

Not quite.  The YF-12 was around for a while before the SR-71.  The YF-12
first flew in August, 1963, while the SR-71 didn't have it's first flight
until December 23, 1964.  Of course the A-12 beat them both by first flying
on April 26, 1962.  The SR-71 certainly was NOT created simply by "renaming"
the YF-12.  They are considerably different in several areas...

I guess this is pretty much exhausting the sci.crypt relevance,
BUT... the up/downlink from Keyhole satellites use the absolute
very best encryption that NSA can generate!  So I guess not all
of it was off topic...