AREA 51 BIRDS....SO MANY!
AREA 51 has presumably been around for quite a while!
To my observation of publicized reports, all the aircraft such as RS(SR)-71, the U-2, and the proposed Aurora, were first began by the Skunkworks crew of the Famed Kelly Johnson of past years. To my knowledge, Kelly Johnson was to military reconaissance as much as Werner Von Braun was to NASA!!!!!
I have often wondered if NASA was the civillian version of "For Public Consumption" , while the old SKUNKWORKS was the actual level of technology in Aerospace.
From my own paranoid point of view, I damn sure wouldn't put all my technolgy in the spotlight of the very public NASA! I would always want to reserve that "ace up my sleeve," in case the Russians, Chinese, ect.... were to decide to develop a suicide wish and attack my country!
I imagine that this has been (thank God) the point of view of our wonderful military leaders in the past decades. When one takes into account the godawful attrocities of the Germans & Japs of WWII, VS the truly incredible machines developed by the British & American scientists of the time, it would be a bit foolish to think that Space Shuttles and even an X-30 hypersonic space plane is really state of the art technolgy!
I don't have a problem with there being technology above what we have heard of so far. It may not seem fair to many of us, but in all eventualities one has to concede that it is neccesary! <I>FOR IF</I> you and I had it, then you can damn sure bet your sweet ass that the "often aggravating" Sadam would be hiring some out of work Russian scientists and engineers to build it, and use it against the Good OL USA! Besides, if one really loves sci-tech, then one should dream up his own machines rather than expecting the Airforce to fill his boring & blank hours just to entertain.
<i>"I have no response to that"(duh)</I>
<I>"The aliens have stolen my thoughts, as well as my job!!!!!"</i>
<I>"I only tune into Howard to hear what he's gonna say next!" (Mike Hunt)???????</i>