SR-91 Aurora: What To Know About The US Military Mach 5 Spy Plane That Never Was

In my recent Simple Flying article on certain NASA programs and how they influenced military aircraft design, I made a reference to the real-world Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation and how it had “no connection to the apocryphal Aurora spy plane.” Well, little did I suspect that that offhand remark would inspire an idea with our Editors, so now here I am writing an article about that “apocryphal Aurora spy plane.”