Message posted by gary on January 04, 2001 at 00:00:18 EST:
I did a little research and the guy was kind of right. LLNL says it was a nuclear powered aircraft. Here is the information from http://www.llnl.gov/str/gifs/Hacker5.gif The guy said the critical blue prints were really pink, and they had cameras designed to spot these "blueprints", which I guess should be called pink prints, leaving the site. Oh yeah, the price for my machining was free, but I have to bring a few Area 51 photos from my next trip. ;-)
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Hacker.html
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Two other large development projects also began officially in 1957. One was Project Pluto, an Air Force-backed effort to develop nuclear ramjets for unmanned aircraft. The other was Project Plowshare, aimed at using peaceful nuclear explosions for civil engineering purposes. Livermore clearly had turned the corner.
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Son of a gun, they have a photo on the site with the engine on a rail road car. A railroad at the TTR, hmmmhh.
Speaking of nukes, there is a large General Electric nuke facility in Livermore out on 84. Somewhere is San Ramon there is a fuel processing plant or fuel analysis plant. All this nuke stuff is kept hush hush to prevent panic.
In Reply to: Re: flights from Livermore to NTS and a NTS railroad posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on January 03, 2001 at 23:30:20 EST:
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