Word: snoopers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Pentagon announced last December that it was retiring the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, it explained that satellites can do what the high- flying (100,000 ft.), 3,000-m.p.h. spy plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds...