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Aurora
The Pentagon's Secret Spyplane
By Bill Sweetman
Our Price: $10.95
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96 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 7.5 x 9 inches
Motorbooks International
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Date: 1992
ISBN: 0879387807
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 1/13/97
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Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Makes a case for the existence of the elusive Aurora.
Aviation journalist Bill Sweetman, lays out the evidence
and historical perspective suggesting the existence
of a new hypersonic spyplane. Is there a black triangular aircraft
from Groom Lake zipping through our skies at Mach 6? Although the
evidence is inconclusive, Sweetman makes a very good argument.
This
book also provides an excellent reference to previous supersonic
aircraft, Aurora's "ancestors", as well as up-to-date info on
the field of hypersonics. A must for anyone interested in state
of the art aircraft.
-- tm/gc
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From the Book Cover
Why did the Pentagon retire the SR-71 spyplane
in 1990, with barely a peep of protest?
What causes the sonic booms that the US Geological Survey has
clocked on its seismographs at Mach 3-4 over the Southern California
desert since 1991?
What was the strange aircraft, shaped like an isosceles triangle
with a 75-degree sweepback, that Chris Gibson, an expert in aircraft
recognition trained by the British Royal Observer Corps, saw from the
oil rig Galveston Keyover the North Sea in August 1989?
"The missing piece in this puzzle, and a number of others is a
spyplane called Aurora," says author Bill Sweetman. But the US Air Force
denies that such an aircraft exists.
In this groundbreaking book, Sweetman investigates the many
reports of unidentified high-speed aircraft that have circulated since
1988. He argues convincingly that the mystery aircraft's shape and size
are an uncannily perfect match to a Mach 6, methane-fueled, ramjet-powered
replacement for the Lockheed SR-71 and that, despite official denials,
Aurora exists, its cost and official identity buried within a vast
secret military budget.
Bill Sweetman is the world's preeminent journalist on black-budget
aircraft. His previous books, including Stealth Bomber,
Lockheed F-117 Stealth Fighter, and YF-22 and YF-23 Advanced
Tactical Fighters, have all been acknowledged as the first and
definitive books on their subjects.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Would Your Government
Lie to You?
- Chapter 1 Blackest of the Black
- Chapter 2 Flying Toward Space
- Chapter 3 The Hypersonic Revolution
- Chapter 4 The Price of Denial
- Postscript Cover Maintained, Secrets Kept
- Index
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