area 51 is a weird place full of secrets and disinformation there is no doubt that some of
the most incredible aircraft have either been developed or tested at this remote base but
there are plenty of stories which have stemmed from this facility including the infamous aurora
and the tr-3b aircraft so the bigger question is there actually a new form of propulsion which
has been developed and kept secret for all these years at this base now that could very
well be true but it's really hard to tell at this point whether or not there was a proprietary type
of propulsion system developed here and if there was it probably will never be revealed due to its
economic implications ultimately the black budget is estimated at a staggering 50 billion dollars
a year and there will always be cutting edge technology developed under these programs and so
there definitely is a possibility that a new type of propulsion system has been developed in secrecy
it will probably only be a matter of time until we discover a new type of propulsion system which
can transition from atmosphere to space and once this kind of craft is built then we will probably
see highly classified research done remotely ultimately in the future there could be no area 51
or even edwards air force base but at this point in time we do know a lot of fascinating aircraft
have been tested at area 51 and the ones that have been revealed have given us a very intriguing
perception of what was developed at the time but we just have to keep in mind that not all these
aircraft were fully developed at area 51 and a lot of them were actually just tested over the years
at this base due to its remoteness now one of the earliest aircraft tested at area 51 emerged in
the 1950s this single engine aircraft was built at skunk works in burbank california and then
later tested at area 51. it was very advanced at its time and it could fly up to 70 thousand feet
naturally this had to use a specialized feel and pressurized suits to keep the youtube pilots
alive at these extreme altitudes however numerous u2's did crash and this did lead to a more faster
and stealthier aircraft not too much longer and the project actually invicta was started
up under the cia program and this was intended to be an unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle
now the first prototype was a power glider but eventually variants were tested at groom lake
and this was eventually designed to fly at an altitude of 1000 feet for about 3 000 miles now
this thing didn't have a go to home function or anything like that and it basically was
flown by a video camera via ground station and this was compared with satellite imagery
it was different by one propeller but there were plans to develop a nuclear propulsion system
which would have allowed it to stay in the air for around 50 days and this highly exemplifies
that some of the most amazing aircraft were developed over a half a century ago not too
much longer and the very fast a12 was developed and this was the predecessor to one of the most
iconic aircraft in the world titled the sr-71 this highly secretive plane was built in 1962 and had
very phenomenal numbers including a top speed of mach 3.2 and a maximum altitude of 90 000 feet
however this particular a12 was short-lived and it did retire in 1968 thereby giving the throne
to the sr-71 now the blackbird was one of the most amazing aircraft ever built and they could
fly from coast to coast in the continental us in just over an hour featuring a titanium airframe
the sr-71 could be easily seen as one of the more advanced aircraft derived from area 51 research
60 years later and lockheed martin is finally working on its successor which is titled the sr-72
and this new hypersonic demonstrator will be fully autonomous and have the ability to
perform high-speed intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance operations it will feature a dual
mode ramjet and turbine based combustion cycle for extreme hypersonic speeds roughly up to mach
6 and it's about time that we have something which can outperform the sr-71 many aircraft are now
being tested at area 51 and a lot of stories were starting to come out at the same time but there is
no doubt that the northwest tactic blue is one of the weirdest aircraft first flown in 1982 it
was created to demonstrate stealth abilities while collecting intelligence data it was the very first
aircraft to future curved surfaces for radar cross section reduction a single inlet and two turbofans
provided over 5000 pounds of force each ultimately it was very slow and one of the more unstable
aircraft but it was way ahead of its time in terms of stealth capabilities and eventually
this technology migrated over to the b2 and the f-117a this oblique odd craft was once again
developed by lockheed martin and it was the first operational stealth aircraft its surfaces and edge
profiles are meant to reflect hostile radar into narrow beams and its cross section was
equivalent to a small bird it carried a variety of laser-guided bombs and air-to-surface missiles
however it did have limited maneuverability and speed and it also had a very fast touchdown rate
at 190 miles per hour so it did require some top piloting skills now one of the last aircraft i'll
mention which was revealed publicly at the base was the bird of prey this was a very
strange aircraft developed as a technological demonstrator for stealth technology but the one
of the weirdest things about this point in time is that this project only cost 67 million dollars
and there is a lot of speculation that there was money being poured into other black ops programs
so where was the money going well there are tons of stories coming out of are 51 but i think one of
the more interesting testimonies stems from edgar fouche who was an area 51 employee at the time
he claimed that there was a craft called the tr-3b which could negate gravity by up to 89 by
utilizing a superconductive plasma rotated at high rpms now this is a pretty far-out claim because
there is no such thing as a superconducting plasma so i'm very skeptical about this design claim
however one parallel to this story is the podnikov experiment and he's also made the
claim that a rotating bi-layer superconductor can create some weight loss now this might seem
a little bit crazy to the average person but nasa did take a very high interest in these experiments
and unfortunately they abruptly ended the research before they could verify these results now the
flip side of this argument is that the tr-3b was just a prototype before the b2 bomber and that it
had no anti-gravity properties but one thing is for sure that is that area 51 has not revealed
a lot of information in the past 20 years and there's literally billions of dollars unaccounted
for so whether or not it's going towards some type of aircraft which can defy gravity or maybe some
type of super weapon we just do not know that is why area 51 is still one of the most mysterious
places in the world anyways i would like to know what you think about all this so please
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