Overheard: Classified Supersonic Craft

• cavsg

  12 Jan 04, 09:03

  Aviation Week & Space Technology
  01/12/2004, page 13
  
  Edited by Patricia J. Parmalee
  
  SECRET STREAKER?
  
  On the morning of Jan. 7, an aircraft using call sign "Lockheed Test 2334" told the FAA's Albuquerque Center it would be "going supersonic somewhere above Flight Level 60 [60,000 ft.]" for about 10 sec. It was flying over the Pecos Military Operating Area in eastern New Mexico at the time, transmitting on 350.350 MHz. When a center controller queried, "Say aircraft type," the unidentified vehicle's pilot responded: "We are a classified type and can't reveal our true altitude." About 15 min. later, the same pilot--on a different frequency (351.700 MHz.)--requested permission for a descent to 30,000 ft. and flight-following to "Las Vegas with final destination somewhere in the Nellis Range" complex. The U.S. Air Force's super-secret Groom Lake test facility is located in the northwest portion of the Nellis AFB, Nev., ranges. The Albuquerque Center controller quipped, "Trip home a bit slower, eh?" There was no response from the classified aircraft. The radio interchanges were recorded by Steve Douglass, a "military radio monitor" hobbyist in Amarillo, Tex.
• Fairyland

  12 Jan 04, 09:11

  Sounds like the Pulse Wave Detonation Jet Engine I read in the Area 51 website.
  
  Seems incredible when the research centres all over the world are still figuring out how to control the detonation and they have it flying already!
• V1NS@niTY

  12 Jan 04, 10:53

  You know its quite amazing how we humans keep pushing the limits of science. I did a litle research on the web and i found research groups dedicated to anti-grav tech and they have small scale anti-grav demonstrators!! I also read somewhere on Gauss rifle technology. Some uni professor managed to fire a plastic bullet at 40 km/s.... omg at that velocity... the bullet would puncture thick steel.
• HENG@

  12 Jan 04, 10:56

  
  what are the sites? sounds interesting.
• tankee1981

  12 Jan 04, 12:29

  Sounds a bit like science fiction movies and stories to me! Looks like the technology is evolving from science fiction to reality!
• Moonstriker

  12 Jan 04, 18:04

  i wan da links!! found a site once.. about all the funny research projects and "forbidden" weapons once... lost the damn link...
• Saint Valentinian

  22 Jan 04, 10:01

  The Smarter we get, the more dangerous we become...
  
• |-|05|

  24 Jan 04, 11:54

  Alot of research comes form science fiction.People dream....and some make it happen And i wont be surprised what the USA has at groom lake.....i mean hiding the bloody F-117 from public for something like 20 years and then the B-2!
• branzzz

  27 Jan 04, 21:16

  yah well, come to think of it, as a friend of mine said, the best things humans are good at are killing each other.