Jones Beene wrote: > > It has been claimed that the "Blackstar spaceplane" and/or Blackswift > uses zip fuel, and that such a fuel exists today - but Blackstar is > almost certainly mythical...
But surely not! Or, rather, if Blackstar doesn't exist, then something much like it -- Blackstar++ -- must exist, no? Else, why *were* they willing to cancel the SR-71 program? I'd always heard it said that there obviously was, somewhere, some other black program cranking out hypersonic aircraft, else they would still be making Blackbirds. So, if the exact thing called the Blackstar doesn't exist, then surely there is something with most of the same capabilities, being built somewhere, which just happens to have a different name. Or ... could it really be that the Air Force doesn't feel the need for a high and fast reconnaissance plane anymore? Can we believe that?
