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Aurora (aircraft) — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Aurora (aircraft) — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
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Aurora is a rumored mid-1980s American reconnaissance aircraft. There is no substantial evidence that it was ever built or flown and it has been termed a myth. The U.S. government has consistently denied such an aircraft was ever built. Aviation and space reference site Aerospaceweb.org stated in 2008 that, "Since the evidence supporting the Aurora is circumstantial or pure conjecture, there is little reason to contradict the government's position." Former Skunk Works director Ben Rich confirmed that "Aurora" was simply a myth in Skunk Works, a 1994 book detailing his time as director. Rich wrote that a colonel working in the Pentagon arbitrarily assigned the name "Aurora" to the funding for the B-2 bomber design competition and somehow the name was leaked to the media. In 2006, veteran black project watcher and aviation writer Bill Sweetman said, "Does Aurora exist? Years of pursuit have led me to believe that, yes, Aurora is most likely in active development, spurred on by recent advances that have allowed technology to catch up with the ambition that launched the program a generation ago."

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Aurora (aircraft)» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
Wikidata Q777089: «ricognizione strategica d'alta quota Lockheed Corporation» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q777089
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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