Aurora Top Secret Spy Plane SR-91 | This Plane Doesn't Exist

Aurora Top Secret Spy Plane SR-91 | This Plane Doesn't Exist

Aurora was a supposed American reconnaissance aircraft from the middle of the 1980s. It has been labeled a myth since there isn't any solid proof that it has ever been constructed or flown.

The US was left without a new surveillance plane to fly across the world after the SR-71 spy plane program ended in the 1990s. Since the SR72 is still decades away, it is assumed that the military has been flying blind for the past 30 years. There have been numerous reports of strange triangle aircraft flying over military airfields all over the world.

Although not much is known about this aircraft, it is thought to cruise at a height of roughly 90,000 feet and reach a top altitude of 135,000 feet (or potentially 110,000 feet). The plane would be flying at extraordinary speeds, easily pushing Mach 6, and blasting across the sky at these altitudes.

It would need either a ramjet or an early scam jet, like the one proposed for the SR72, or a highly loud propulsion system termed a pulse wave detonation engine to travel at this speed. It is extremely dissimilar from conventional engines. The deflagration of fuel, which is the quick but subsonic combustion of fuel, is the basis for all conventional jet engines and the majority of rocket engines. The supersonic detonation of fuel powers the pulse detonation engine.

If the aircraft possessed this engine, it would let it fly over any existing anti-aircraft defenses and have a range significantly larger than the SR-71, whose employment necessitated a sizable tanker support fleet. Spying would be the mission profile of the Aurora, which would be used to fill the gap between spy satellites and slower aircraft or drones.

[francismusso]

In the mid to late 90s while I was doing Physical Therapy in one if my patients homes. The patient told me his son was working on an aircraft that could fly from LA to New York City in less than 1/2 hour. Your talking about 6000 MPH here. He said his son told him he could not say anymore about it because it was a top secret project.

[petroflorence]

What about the us tik tak that awesome ridicules in space under water and in atmosphere

[ntal]

USA is great at making CGI planes but when it comes to make the real thing its always late and over budget.