TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

This. I thought it was the blackbird.

litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Area 51 is SUCH an Attention Whore.

Look at me!

I'm Area 51!!!

umrdyldo: If it were so top secret, who was allowed to take pictures?

nmiguy: Ken at Popehat: Then who the hell has been probing me?

Sorry that was me. I was looking for my watch...

...

*looks askance at Ken at Popehat*

Slut.

Ken at Popehat
Then who the hell has been probing me?

Kanye West?

/hate that song

JohnnyC: TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

It's pretty much the same exact design only slightly smaller than the SR-71.

There is an SR-71 mothballed at our local "Air Zoo" at an indoor hanger. I've spent quite a bit of time walking around that jet. One of my all time favorites.

That, and it carried missiles.

But I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out the trunk
Heard what she said at them
They've come to drag us through the double M
It goes black black black black and blacker...


-- Soul Coughing

How can you declassify events and materials from an airbase whose existence isn't yet declassified?

What sense does that even make?

Jake Havechek
But I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out the trunk
Heard what she said at them
They've come to drag us through the double M
It goes black black black black and blacker...


-- Soul Coughing



love that song!

SearchN: Grables'Daughter: litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Please look into this flash.

Careful there, you know what happens when you start flashing people.

Of course.

The thread turns into a BIE/EIP thread lol

Handwerk,Brain

Really?

1963 =/= 1947

/tinfoil hats shall remain firmly in place thank you very much sir

karnal: Jake Havechek
But I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang
I let her out the trunk
Heard what she said at them
They've come to drag us through the double M
It goes black black black black and blacker...


-- Soul Coughing



love that song!

Here comes the supercopter, here comes the noise it makes...

I am actually listening to Soul Coughing's greatest hits at work today.

TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

Because it is an SR-71. That's the 2nd A-12 (the test name of the SR-71), airframe number 60-6939, produced for test purposes. This is hardly news. The photos appear to be news however.

Grables'Daughter: SearchN: Grables'Daughter: litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Please look into this flash.

Careful there, you know what happens when you start flashing people.

Of course.

The thread turns into a BIE/EIP thread lol

EIP -- You may begin.

Part of an engine nacelle and an exhaust ejector are visible at left.



Duh.

nmiguy: Ken at Popehat: Then who the hell has been probing me?

Sorry that was me. I was looking for my watch...

I told you going in up to the elbow was a bad idea.

sharpie_69: Grables'Daughter: SearchN: Grables'Daughter: litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Please look into this flash.

Careful there, you know what happens when you start flashing people.

Of course.

The thread turns into a BIE/EIP thread lol

EIP -- You may begin.

Stop.

Grables'Daughter: sharpie_69: Grables'Daughter: SearchN: Grables'Daughter: litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Please look into this flash.

Careful there, you know what happens when you start flashing people.

Of course.

The thread turns into a BIE/EIP thread lol

EIP -- You may begin.

Stop.

Don't worry, it was all a cover up.

Was spying on daisies obviously
/That could have been your lawn David

Contrabulous Flabtraption: If you have any interest in this stuff, do yourself a favor and read this:

That book is amazing. Highly recommended, especially if you're into military stuff.

JohnnyC: TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

It's pretty much the same exact design only slightly smaller than the SR-71.

There is an SR-71 mothballed at our local "Air Zoo" at an indoor hanger. I've spent quite a bit of time walking around that jet. One of my all time favorites.

Know how I know we live in the same city?
Yes, there really is a _________.

sharpie_69: Grables'Daughter: sharpie_69: Grables'Daughter: SearchN: Grables'Daughter: litespeed74: I'm more concerned about area 52. I think the government is trying to draw attention to area 51 while aliens and humans are hanging out in area 52.

Please look into this flash.

Careful there, you know what happens when you start flashing people.

Of course.

The thread turns into a BIE/EIP thread lol

EIP -- You may begin.

Stop.

Don't worry, it was all a cover up.

That explains why the military is at my door.

If you're a goddamn morn this has been a rough couple of days. First no Judgment Day and now no aliens at Area 51

JohnnyC: TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

It's pretty much the same exact design only slightly smaller than the SR-71.

There is an SR-71 mothballed at our local "Air Zoo" at an indoor hanger. I've spent quite a bit of time walking around that jet. One of my all time favorites.

My brother actually got to sit in one. He couldn't tell us for 25 years. He worked in very specialized radar applications.

itsfullofstars: TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

Because it is an SR-71. That's the 2nd A-12 (the test name of the SR-71), airframe number 60-6939, produced for test purposes. This is hardly news. The photos appear to be news however.

Exactly, the only newsworthy part of this is the release of the photos. It's no secret that the A-12 was the predecessor to the SR71. David Darlington's book Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles contains a great account of the origin and early use of the site, including the early U2 and A12 tests. Quite the leading headline though, Subby. Just like the pros do it (although the article clearly states the crash was in Utah, not Nevada.

Contrabulous Flabtraption: If you have any interest in this stuff, do yourself a favor and read this:

Seconded. Fantastic book, especially when you realize that the SR71/A12 were designed with slide rules. The passages on testing the fuel for it are amusing too.

The infamous Roswell crash happened in '47, not the 60's. Unless it was also a time machine?

Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

Contrabulous Flabtraption: Ginnungagap42: Contrabulous Flabtraption: Everything about OXCART is F*CKING. AWESOME. With the end result being the most f*cking awesome thing ever made by humans, the SR-71

Second most f*cking awesome thing ever made by humans. (new window)

Word. Man, they used to invent some amazing stuff. There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.



Begs to differ.

SFSailor: Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.

They had me until "which to this day does not officially exist". Nice move, National Geographic.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SFSailor: Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.



They're not hard to find online.

Contrabulous Flabtraption: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SFSailor: Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.

What space fleet? Seriously.

If we don't know, we're probably not invited.

/Who wants to pee in their suit for several light-years anyways

DjangoStonereaver: TheShavingofOccam123: JohnnyC: TheShavingofOccam123: Could explain the rapid early success of the SR-71. Looks very similar.

It's pretty much the same exact design only slightly smaller than the SR-71.

There is an SR-71 mothballed at our local "Air Zoo" at an indoor hanger. I've spent quite a bit of time walking around that jet. One of my all time favorites.

My brother actually got to sit in one. He couldn't tell us for 25 years. He worked in very specialized radar applications.

When my father was at Macguire AFB, an SR-71 had engine trouble and had to land. They kept it way out on
the tarmac, surrounded by the biggest and most trigger-happy APes they could find. This was sometime in the
early 80s.

I got much closer to the one at the Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles.

They've got one at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS. Its nose is right at navel level and you can walk right up and touch it.

Grables'Daughter: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SFSailor: Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.

They're not hard to find online.

Of course now everyone in this thread will have to be disappeared. Loose lips sink ships and all that.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.

Ya' know... I was thinkin' that as I clicked "Add Comment."

We are still doing incredible things. But they're way, way, way up in space, and unmanned. The SR-71 is incredible (*especially* given when it was designed), but launching something into space that can take pictures of [what do you think it is now? License plates? A legible piece of paper?] is pretty impressive, too.

It's just more sterile, less immediately impressive/approachable and less human....

SFSailor: ... that we know of?

That would be it. There's some good, non-tinfoil hat variety, circumstantial evidence something cooler exists. Started out with a few reports of odd contrails and other stuff in the late 80s. And if you stick with the good stuff, not the tinfoil hat stuff, it does seem a fair bit of it would point towards Area 51 as the base for the plane.

Contrabulous Flabtraption: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SFSailor: Contrabulous Flabtraption: There hasn't been a crazy-awesome plane in awhile.

... that we know of?

The space fleet is pretty awesome. I just wish they'd release the specs.

What space fleet? Seriously.

Well, there's some confirmed stuff, like the X-37 B Space Plane

And then there's the speculation, like Gary McKinnon's alleged discovery of a space fleet