Experimental Mach-20 aircraft set for launch at Vandenberg AFB

[Jan Klimkowski]

If hypersonic flight is being discussed and demonstrated openly, it -- and something that makes it look like surfboarding -- has been around for at least 20-30 years.

Or is that simply what they'd like us to conclude?

Indeed.

Deep covert-funded science is usually a couple of decades ahead of white, open, science.

So this baby bird has likely been operational for at least 10 years.

However, reading below, it's being framed as if it's all a high risk experiment.

Hence Charles is correct to raise the possiblity that we're being played.

Engineers hope to answer two main questions:

1) Can a plane that averages 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound, withstand the 3,500-degree Fahrenheit temperatures that occur at such a high velocity?

2) Will a plane travelling that fast rip apart in mid-air?

"It's time to conduct another flight test to validate our assumptions and gain further insight into extremely high Mach regimes that we cannot fully replicate on the ground," said Air Force Major Chris Schulz, in a DARPA press release.

The plane's history dates back to 2003, when it was part of a project to potentially deliver bombs to any part of the world in less than an hour, reports The Guardian.

The stakes of the flight are enormous, notes Wired .

Darpa has no plans to build a third vehicle. And, unless this test goes well, it's unlikely that the Air Force or any other branch of the military will pick up on the agency's work

OK - that's the MSM script.

This emphasises the point:

The HTV-2 is part of a DARPA plan called Prompt Global Strike. If testing is successful, it could be used as an advanced weapons system whose incredible speed makes it capable of knocking out any target in the world within an hour of launch.

"if successful"
"could be used"

I suspect the mockingbirds are earning their wages of sin.....