He knows too much get him!!!!

Goes in the aviation section

Wait for the mods to. 

Or just ask them....

You don't really, you just wait and they will move it.

You don't know anything...

FLASH FLASH

I don't want it moved THAT much!!
And I haven't gotten anything like what I wanted!

Well, first of all, that is a dud link. This is the correct one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28aircraft%29
And I think it is still in service, the US still needs strategic recon.

That's what I'm thinking, they didn't.

Some of that may be true, but a satellite's path can be predicted quite reliably; the enemy knows when to hide their trucks and scuds.
On the other hand, a stealth mach 6+ high altitude spy plane can not be tracked, jammed, or shot down. And it provides just as good, if not better intelligence.
And don't start suggesting UAVs either. With a UAV, the pilot sits at a video-game like console hundreds if not thousands of miles away and has hardly any situational awareness and no sense of danger. The enemy starts firing SAMs at the UAV, and if the pilot even knows about it at all, he can't/won't do anything about it because he hasn't the least sense of fear. The pilot's CO smacks him for losing a multi-million dollar UAV, and they send another one up. Valuable time, money, and intelligence are lost, that is not good in a war.
Now with a manned spy plane the pilot will do anything and everything possible to keep that SAM from hitting his plane, or else he is dead meat.

In my mind there will always be a place for manned spy planes in the sky and above the battlefield.

Good points, I suppose there is not much need for spy planes anymore.
*sigh* That thing was cool!

That thing does not look like the real plane.
Though it must be worth a lot!

DID YOU EVEN LOOK AT THE LINKS!?!?!?!

I guess, but the overwhelming majority of them look like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Aurora_x-plane_2.jpg

That leads me to believe that is what it looks like (and even if you prove me wrong (like you will most probably do) I will still stick to this design because it looks SOO much cooler than all the others  ).

RaptorF22 wrote on Jul 21^st, 2009 at 4:57pm:

I can't prove you wrong because I have no idea if it exists or what it looks like if it does.

Speaking of spy planes, dont forget that the U2 is still flying high around the world, so there is still a reason for them to be around. And from what I understand... some SR-71s might possibly be still flying. But not by the USAF. May not be true... but would be cool!

RaptorF22 wrote on Jul 21^st, 2009 at 1:17pm:

They are trying to direct your attention away from the plane that may or may not exist, through confusion and misdirection, so you don't disapier like the last member that asked about it...crap I said to much...