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According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora referred to a group of exotic aircraft, and not to one particular airframe. Funding of the project allegedly reached $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week.
10 paź 2024 · The Aurora is reportedly equipped with engines that run on supercooled liquid methane. Departing from Watertown Strip and refueling mid-air, it is claimed to traverse the Pacific Ocean within approximately two hours. The aircraft is distinguished by its double delta aerodynamic design.
29 paź 2023 · SR-91 Aurora was born out of a strategic need for airborne reconnaissance. Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest jet-powered aircraft in history, famously outran more than 4,000 missiles ...
This is the Italeri'/Testors Lockheed/Boeing SR-75 Penetrator/ XR-7 Thunderdart combo known more famously as Project Aurora. The 'mothership' was basically touted as being a development of the SR-71 Blackbird only considerably larger and capable of carrying the XR-7 Thunderdart hypersonic sub orbital aircraft to be used in a variety of roles ...
Aurora also known as SR-91 Aurora is the popular name for a hypothesized American reconnaissance aircraft, believed by some to be capable of hypersonic flight at speeds of Mach 5+. According to the hypothesis, Aurora was developed in the 1980s or 1990s as a replacement for the aging and expensive SR-71 Blackbird.
The project was developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. The aircraft selected for the flight was a heavily modified Scaled Composites Long-EZ, named Borealis. [5] The engine consisted of four tubes producing pulse detonations at a frequency of 80 Hz, creating up to 200 pounds of thrust (890 newtons).
14 cze 2003 · Basicly those engines function by injection fuel into a cumbustion chamber and lighting it off and repeating the process to form a series of pulses. Simular to the engine on the V-1 rocket. It also enables the motor to use either outside air or introduced liquid oxygen as an oxidizer.
