![]() ![]() I'm not applying my conjecture as to how or why Black Project aircraft were designed in the 1980s. There was a cruise missle program that would have looked similar, but would have been much smaller and did not likely produce anything flying. ![]() I do not think Chris would mistake a Dorito for what he describes. In 1989 there were a lot of things flying. (the white aspects of the TEAL programs produced AMBER, CONDOR (indirectly, sort of) and the reciprocating engines to power them).īack on topic, one reason that the Gibson sighting is associated with AURORA is that at the time that was really the only known or rumored program that would produce a shape and size like what he saw.Įven now, the only things I know of that could match something like that are an AURORA or an "A-17". There were other programs - we think - around the same time that were more closely related to QUARTZ. TEAL CAMEO, TEAL RAIN, and several other programs were DARPA projects aimed at developing a range of technologies to enable UAV platforms like QUARTZ. There were tech demos surrounding QUARTZ and the requirements it was to satisfy. QUARTZ was designed for specific requirements rather than being a tech demo. ![]() It did well enough that SENIOR TREND followed it to evolve HAVE BLUE into an operational capability. They took the Hopeless Diamond and made it into something flyable and testable. HAVE BLUE was a tech demo, not intended to be an operational aircraft. ![]()
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