I think the name Skylon was first used for this project in 1993 [1], so unless you repeated quite a few years, i doubt that's true. RB454/HOTOL could have been

I think the name Skylon was first used for this project in 1993 [1], so unless you repeated quite a few years, i doubt that's true. RB454/HOTOL could have been in the news back then, though. I remember having some sort of brochure for HOTOL back in the mid-80s. [1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993SpFl...35..162V/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993SpFl...35..162V/abstra...