Message posted by Night Stalker on June 05, 2020 at 6:27:14 PST:

This is worth a read...

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26156/is-this-concept-art-of-a-mysterious-space-launch-mothership-a-missing-link-in-area-51s-past

Assuming it was the same artist, I've always thought the art on the ground looks more realistic than the release imagery...as if it was drawn/painted from photos.

I'd like to think too that there's anecdotal evidence of something flying high and fast in late 80s/early 90s - the sonic booms that were worked out to be 90,000 at Mach 4/5. Not to mention there must have been some project that saw them extend the runway to the length they did.

As the first article says, it was possibly too expensive or just not practical enough to keep it going.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/beta-beta-ii-spaceplane.5217/

In Reply to: Re: When Will The Next Bird of Prey Fly The Nest... posted by Matt Johnson on June 03, 2020 at 17:42:49 PST:

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