Talk:Aurora Aircraft

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Contents 1 Discussion of the Aurora and Aurora Entry 2 Added red sketch 3 Changed to 360d Animation 4

Discussion of the Aurora and Aurora Entry

Anything needed, recomended, any changes, whatever.... --DP 20:51, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

Added red sketch

...Until I can get a better image, photo, rendering, ect. It will do for the moment. If the red is a problem, I can grayscale it to black. --DP 20:51, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

Changed to 360d Animation

I guess this will do. You can find it at the site. This gives a 360 degree look at the Aurora.

--DP 22:52, 6 June 2006 (CDT)

Just read the entry for "Aurora" and I can correct some points made. I was a Royal Air Force adviser attached to the USAF in UK in the late 80's early 90's. I had to visit every US miitary installation in the UK regularly to ensure compliance with British regulations covering all explosives, weapons and other armament. This involved frequent visits to RAF Machrihanish where a couple of USN units were based. I can categorically confirm that there were no Aurora aircraft based there (if Aurora ever even existed). In fact, no aircraft at all were based there as the base was on minimal manning and handled only visiting aircraft, mostly maritime patrol types from various nations. Macrihanish was far too small to hide anything and the locals would certainly have been aware of any unusual aircraft. The report of an Aurora being detected by an RAF Air Traffic Controller in 1992 is incorrect. It was a civilian at the civil airport at Prestwick who THOUGHT he had a high speed blip and contacted the Duty RAF Officer at Machrihanish about it. This young officer was so annoyed at being woken up in the middle of the night for a spurious report that he told the controller that it was all hush hush and he couldn't discuss it! I was visiting the base at the time so got the story first hand from the officer concerned! Unfortunately, the controller then told the local press that a mysterious secret aircraft from Machrihanish had flown up the West Coast of Scotland and so the story took off. I believe the young officer was later reprimanded about his flippant comments! The story then grew arms and legs to the point that Aurora was actually based at or at least visited Machrihanish regularly. Sorry guys - not true. Shows how conspiracy stories can grow from nothing.
The above was posted on 21:46, 25 September 2008 by 81.158.100.68

Feedback is good. Of course, one thing that would strike some of the readers of this particular encyclopedia, is of course that you are referring to nothing other than to your anonymous self. In the encyclopedic article here, that would, strictly speaking, not amount to much other than something like, "An anonymous poster in the discussion of this tinWiki article says there were no planes in Macrihanish." As you see, although feedback is always good, you haven't provided enough references for you comment to really be able to conribute that much. Had you had a website that was generally acknowledged to actually belong to you, and of course been presented with full name and credentials, and so on, on the website, then the article could refer to that you on your website state that no ariplanes were at Macrihanish. This anonymous post, though, doesn't really amount to that much, since tinWiki strives to present information that is 'neutral, factual, and verifiable'.

If you have some kind of website or any type of reliable type source that can be named, all such things are always great contributions, either by just adding links in the external links section, or by writing some information that presents what such sources say. Anything and everything you can contribute of such information that can be traced back to some kind of source that's generally known and known to be trustworthy and so on, is of great help. But, like I say, an anonymous post in a discussion page here isn't really the type of material that tinWiki articles should base their information content on. P.S. Just a 'technical' tip regarding how to post in the discussion here: To add a new post, click the plus sign in the 'tab' next to the one that says "edit" -- these 'tabs' are found towards the top of the discussion page. Also, always sign a discussion post -- which may be done by either typing the signing code manually, four tildes, or by clicking the second button from the right in the editing toolbar. Optimist 17:17, 25 September 2008 (CDT)